Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are…

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she’s long been under the hoodlum’s thumb. She’s secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed…

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he’s been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to…

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes…

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana’s grimy underworld.