Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
Varietéstjärnan Lulu förför alla runt omkring sig med sin skönhet och leder dem in i fördärvet. Men snart är även hennes tid kommen.
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.
Tillsammans med sin älskade Cassandra längtar Dwayne efter att lämna den lilla staden Cut Bank, där de båda växt upp. Men Dwaynes planer på ett liv i storstan grusas när han hamnar i lokalpolisens intresse. En rad blodiga händelser får oåterkalleliga konsekvenser för honom och den lilla staden, där inget är som det ser ut.
En sommardag 1798 hittas en ung, naken pojke i en skog i södra Frankrike. Han har vuxit upp som ett vilddjur och kan varken tala eller skriva. Doktor Jean Itard intresserar sig för fallet. Han tar hand om vilden, ger honom namnet Victor och försöker civilisera honom.
Biologen Henri Laborit demonstrerar hur beteendeteorier om överlevnad och social utveckling hos djur även kan överföras till människor. Han gör det genom att referera till tre människors liv. Jean, en ambitiös författare och politiker, Janine, en lovande skådespelerska och René, en pojke från landet som blir chef för en textilfabrik. Alla tre hamnar i skrämmande och livsavgörande situationer, som biologen Henri menar bevisar hans teorier
An alcoholic gunman, hunted down by five pitiless bounty hunters, is sheltered by a saloon dancer. When his enemies kill the girl the outlaw pulls himself together and faces his adversaries and takes his revenge in a final showdown. An interesting take on the reluctant gunfighter theme contains some truly surprising twists.
Bob Ford mördar sin vän och kumpan Jesse James för att på sätt få pengabelöning, amnesti och därmed kunna gifta sig med sin käresta. Han inser dock snart att fegt skjuta en folkhjälte i ryggen inte är ett recept på lycka i livet.
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
During a rescue of Mary and her father, Bob Bartlett finds a good horse, which later causes him to be mistaken for Butch Coleson, a wanted outlaw. Wounded by a posse, Bob heads for Poker Flats hoping to capture Coleson for the reward.
A crazed bomber is terrorizing the city. Meanwhile, a young Porky Pig is a few cents shy of buying an ice cream soda; he starts earning it by picking up items people drop and handing them back to them.
A trained seal has escaped from the Jingling Brothers circus; there's a $100,000 reward. Both the Captain and John Silver hear this news, as does the seal. They show up, offering the seal a ride to wherever she wants to go; home to the arctic, as it happens. The Captain wins round one, grabbing the seal while John is engaged in a fight with yet another reward seeker.
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting away from the hectic life he has been leading and wants to settle down. They arrive in Red Rock just as the newspaper is being sold at foreclosure and, despite the attempts by Lafe Barlow to intimidate him from bidding. Fuzzy finds himself the owner of a newspaper. Fuzzy meets Edith Martin, daughter of the former owner, and unthinkingly commits himself to carrying on her father's policy of bringing a telegraph line to Red Rock. For reason of his own, Barlow is against this and has his henchmen wage a campaign of terror against the ranchers and citizens. Before long, Billy who had been lazily indifferent to everything connected to Fuzzy and his newspaper, decides to take a hand on the side of the good guys.
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps them get away.
Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.