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- The 1943 serial, G-Men vs. The Black Dragon (1943), which was original 15 episodes, re-edited into a feature film for television distribution.
- Yet another truncated version of a 12 episode serial "re-edited" into feature length form for television distribution. This time it's Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. (1949).
- Edited from the 1948 Republic serial G-Men Never Forget (1948), and released to TV in a syndication package deal in 1966.
- A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
- This travelogue promoting Hollywood tourism offers brief looks at several of the town's landmarks as well as quick glimpses of stars and their homes.
- The doings of a female juvenile delinquent, and how crime does not pay.
- Publishers discover they've given Judy's song to another composer, without their owning the rights yet. Judy's personal life complicates her decisions about the song and about competing in a covered wagon race.
- When elderly Bertha Polacheck offers to burn down arson investigator Oscar Hollingsworth's bar so that he can collect on the insurance, Hollingsworth informs the Los Angeles Fire Department's Capt. Taplinger. Taplinger has just called in Robby "Rollie" Rollins to work undercover on the investigation, when another bar burns down. At the scene, Taplinger discovers the source of the blaze: a rag soaked in phosphorozene, a chemical made combustible by air. The investigators soon learn that the producer of the chemical, Hanley Chemical Company of Albany of New York, sells only to the United States government. After further investigation, R. J. McManus, the President of Hanley, fires one of his employees, Ralph Wessman, for stealing samples of the chemical to send to his brother, pharmacist E. V. Wessman. Taplinger and another investigator, Berkeley, decide to use Hollingworth's bar as bait to trap Wessman and Bertha and convince Wessman's assistant to quit so that rookie investigator Russ Haines can take the job. Soon Wessman receives a bottle of phosphorozene, sent by Ralph before he was fired. He hides it in the back room, and then tells Russ that he is stepping out for a moment. Once in the street, Wessman notices Russ sneaking into the back room and rushes back to discover the bottle empty. He then mixes a drink for Russ, which knocks him out, and by the time Russ wakes up, Bertha's sons Sam and Tony have arrived. Russ informs them that their connection at Hanley has been fired, and Russ explains that if they want to continue using phosphorozene, they must go through his brother-in-law, Dutch. After Tony and Sam agree to do business with Russ, he takes them to Hollingworth's bar where he and Rollie, who is posing as Dutch, agree to burn down Hollingsworth's bar that evening. When Tony and Sam insist that Russ light the bar on fire while they hide nearby, the arson team ignites a hidden gas line to mimic flames. Convinced that Russ is for real, Tony and Sam reveal Bertha's plans to burn down another bar soon. In the next day's newspapers, however, Tony and Sam read that the bar's sprinkler system extinguished the flames. Later, Tony and Sam request a pint of phosphorozene from the pharmacy, so Russ asks the police department chemist to manufacture an inert substance with the look and smell of phosphorozene. That evening, at the Polacheck home, Bertha asks her pet canaries whether or not they should go through with the plan. When the birds chirp a warning only Bertha can understand, Wessman suggests they target San Carlos Textile Company instead of the bar. After he rushes to inform detectives of the changed plan, Russ accompanies the rest of the gang to the textile company. When the imitation phosphorozene fails to ignite the building, Wessman accuses Russ of being a detective and the gang attacks him. They tie him up, ignite the building and leave him trapped inside. Russ soon regains consciousness and kicks out the window, setting off the alarm. After Russ is rescued by firefighters, Bertha, Wessman and the rest of the gang are sent to prison. For his brave work, Russ is given a permanent assignment at the arson bureau.
- Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
- War vets Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka University until they find lodgings in the school's overcrowded quarters. They pretend they are married to get the last two units in the married veteran's housing project, with the girls in one unit and the boys in the other. A noisy kid, Junior Ormsbee, the nephew of the landlords, voices his suspicions and nearly gets them evicted. And a U.S. Senator, investigating veteran's projects, adds new complications.
- At theater producer Phillip Mannings' Hollywood office, playwright Jed Kilgore demands to know why his latest play was rejected. Phillip tells him the play is no good, and suggests that Jed try a mystery instead. They fight, but are interrupted by the arrival of a visitor. After Phillip asks Jed to keep his upcoming trip to Honolulu a secret, Jed leaves, taking the visitor's scarf with him. The next morning, Jed reads in the newspaper that Phillip has been murdered. Jed confers with his girl friend, talent agent Myra Peters, whose brother Bill, a police lieutenant, is leading the investigation into Phillip's death. Although he did not see the murderer, Jed starts a rumor that he has inside information about the crime, hoping to scare the killer into revealing his or her identity. They go to the theater, where Bill has assembled everyone for the investigation, and Myra suggests that Jed rewrite his play to incorporate the facts of the case. Jed and Myra tell Bill about their plan, and he informs them that Phillip was strangled, and that some fingerprints found on the door will soon be identified. Jed and Myra listen through the intercom as Bill questions Mrs. Mannings and Phillip's associates, including John Webb, his financial backer. Mrs. Mannings says that she hated her husband, who was unfaithful, and suggests that Bill question Corinne Hollister, who was set to star in Jed's play before Phillip rejected it. Bill tells Jed that a panhandler named Shuffalong reported seeing a man matching Jed's description entering Phillip's building the previous night. After Bill leaves, Jed receives an anonymous telegram warning him that if he writes the play, he must do justice to the role of Jed Kilgore. While Bill is at the telegraph office trying to find out who sent the message, Jed is attacked by an unidentified man. They fight and the man escapes, taking the scarf with him. Rehearsals for Jed's new play begin, and Bill becomes increasingly suspicious of Jed. Speculating that Corinne was going to accompany Phillip to Honolulu, Jed goes to the airport and inquires about reservations under her name, and the clerk immediately calls Bill to report this. As Jed is leaving the airport, someone shoots at him and misses. During intermission on opening night of Jed's play, Bill arrests Jed, but Jed escapes on the way to the police station. Meanwhile, the killer hides inside Myra's dressing room, but Jed arrives in time to rescue her, although the killer gets away. Jed then takes over the leading man's role himself, and when he confronts Corinne onstage with a scarf that Myra knit for him, she says that she knitted it for her father. To the audience's surprise, Webb then walks onto the stage and objects to Jed's accusations. Corinne reproaches Webb for being a controlling father, adding that she changed her name to get away from him. Webb tells her that he is her foster father, her real father having deserted her, and admits to killing Phillip because of his affair with Corinne. Bill arrests Webb, and Jed and Myra get married.
- Stubby Kaye starred in this pilot for a situation comedy-musical series about the crew of a coast guard cutter who travel the world getting into and out of trouble. The series never came to fruition.
- Ambitious young truck driver Sam Starr is in love with Molly Betts, who shares with her father a resentment against John Scott Ryder,the town's Mayor. In WW I, Ryder took credit for an act of heroism performed by "Pop" Betts and all of Ryder's success since then has been the direct result of the hero-worship of the town's citizens---adulation which should have been extended to Betts. Shortly before his marriage to Molly, Sam takes Molly for a ride in his truck, the truck is sideswiped by another truck, and Sam's truck and its contents are demolished. Molly "imagines" the other truck carried the insignia of Ryder who operates a rival trucking line. Sam demands restitution from Ryder who, at first refuses, until Molly, unknown to Sam, tells Ryder she has uncovered evidence that proves Ryder was really a coward in the war, and not the hero he is thought to be. Ryder then buys Sam a new truck. A crooked politician,Al McGongile, also learns of this information and decides to shake-down Ryder for all the traffic can bear, He sets Sam up in a trucking business and blackmails Ryder, unknown to Sam, to turn over most of his most-profitable contracts. The Starrs become very affluent until, on their first wedding anniversary, Sam learns for the first time how unwittingly he has actually built his business upon blackmail and he leaves Molly. He goes to Ryder, reimburses him for the truck and berates him for the lack of courage to confess the truth about his war-time record. He berates him so much that Ryder, after Sam leaves, writes a confession and then shoots himself. Ryder's wife finds his body and the note...and destroys the note. And Sam Starr is charged with murdering Ryder, and a mob of angry citizens gather around the jail with intent to lynch.
- Feature version of the serial King of the Royal Mounted (1940).
- Joe Ferrill is trying to get enough money so that when his father gets out of prison, he can live comfortably, but before that happens his father dies in prison. Angry at the world, Joe falls in with a criminal gang, and plans on using them to take his revenge on John Mitchell, the auditor whose testimony send Joe's dad to prison. However, matters get complicated when he meets and falls in love with a pretty young girl named Chris--who it turns out is John Mitchell's daughter.
- A young man with financial problems works in the payroll office of a factory. One payday the payroll office is held up by an armed gang, but they miss a sizable amount of money, and only the struggling payroll clerk knows it. He's torn between keeping the much-needed money for himself or doing the right thing and turning it in.
- It is about a troubleshooting executive in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
- Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors,i.e, suckers and buyers. But one of the investors dies intestate and his interests pass to the state. The governor's secretary (Lynne Roberts) engages new talent (the Four Step Brothers, Guadalajara Trio, St. Clair & Vilvoa, Dolores and Don Graham, et al) and a new orchestra (Jan Savitt), in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state. Barry (in another of the vast majority of his films in which he was not billed as Don "Red" Barry), who has fallen in love with the first-billed Roberts, reforms and buys up the surplus stock.
- An Eastern potentate, the Rajah of Bandor (Charles Lung), and his American bride (Sue Casey), are robbed of a fortune in jewels on the Riviera, by a quartet of thieves led by Otto Von Herzen (Stephen Bekassy). The gang flees to Hong Kong, followed by Charles Reeves (Robin Hughes), British insurance investigator, and his sister, Susan ('Lois Hall' )qv)). Bill Whitfield (Warren Douglas), a none-too-bright American entrepreneur, gets involved with Stella Strutzenbacher (June Vincent), a flashy and stylish member of Herr Von Herzen's gang. The gang, already riddled with dissension, are easy pickings for Whitfield, Charles and Susan to capture and recover the Rajah's jewels.
- A young attorney cannot defend himself against accusations that he murdered his business partner, as he has no memory of the night it happened. A fraternity pin found at the scene of the crime becomes the key to solving the mystery.
- An anti-Nazi German schoolmaster (Fritz Kortner) helps a U.S. pilot (John Archer) get vital data to the Allies.
- "Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
- Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
- A singer (Venable) believes her marine pilot husband, accused of treason, has died in the Pacific. She finds a man who looks exactly like her husband dancing in a club act. Realizing it is her husband, and thinking he must have amnesia, she sets out to help him recover his memory and clear his name.
- A hardboiled police detective goes soft when he takes in a young boy to get him to spill the beans on a bank robbery.
- Gene Autry inherits and runs a meat packing company. To get Gene to sell, the lady owner of a rival company starts a feud to derail Gene, who tries to recover by using rallies, parades, and bands.
- Pilot for a sitcom about a family caught up in the craze over the latest teenage rock-and-roll sensation.
- Another in the series of films Republic made from 1939 to 1944 headlining the rustic family musical group known as "The Weaver Brothers and Elviry." In real life, June Weaver (Elviry) was married to Frank Weaver (Cicero)but always played the wife of Abner (Leon Weaver)in the films. June Weaver also had a daughter,Loretta, from a previous marriage that appeared in many of the films as Loretta Weaver. This mid-America adventure finds Farmington town mayor Elviry Weaver (June Weaver)and her husband police chief Abner (Leon Weaver)under heavy critical fire because crime runs unabated in their town. Leader of the critics is Councilman Bell (Jed Prouty), who is secretly responsible for the crime wave by operatating a "Protection" racket and if the townspeople do not sign up for the service, his henchmen stage hold-ups,thefts and other acts of intimidation. Elviry travels to the state capitol to enlist the aid of a prominent investigator, but he is too busy to help her. She then conceives the idea of enlisting the aid of gangster Scarf Lennin (Dick Purcell)who has the reputation of being able to take over any racket he wants to control. Elviry masquerades as a crook to inveigle Scarf into bringing his mob to Farmington to cleam out the local lawless element. Once this is accomplished, it is her plan to tell him the heat is on and it will be best for him to leave town. Scarf and his mob come to town and soon smoke out Councilman Bell's racket, and the lawlessness is abated...only to be replaced with a worse situation. Scarf has taken over the Weaver Family's old homestead and turned it into a night club and gambling joint. Workers from a nearby defense plant flock there, stay up late and lose their money, which is bad on their morale and effects their war production work. Newspaper editor Fred Morgan (Robert Conway) crusades against the menace of the club and the administration which permits it, causing a rift between himself and the Weaver's daughter, Mary Jo (Maris Wrixon.) When the Weavers attempt to close down the club, Scarf reminds Elviry that she is officially his "partner" and that if she exposes him, she will go to jail also. Abner saves the day by a cleaver ruse. He has proof that Scarf and his mob, as well as Bell and his gang, all have more than their alloted share of sugar. (Which means nothing to those who aren't aware of WW II rationing.) He organizes a raid and secures proof they have all violated the sugar rationing act and are liable to ten thousand dollar fines, ten years imprisoment or both. Peace reigns once again in Farmington as Mary Jo patches up her quarrel with Fred, and Abner and Elviry retire from politics and move back to their Old Homestead. Cicero (Frank Weaver) was the "dumb" part of the musical act, remained mute a la Harpo Marx and concentrated mostly on playing his hand-saw instrument during the family musical numbers, which is why June had to play the wife of her real-life brother-in-law, who did speak.
- In this feature-length reediting of the serial 'Perils of Nyoka (1942)', the famed African jungle girl Nyoka competes with an equally resourceful (and white) female nemesis, Vultura, to obtain a set of mysterious tablets of wondrous power.
- Frontier Justice was a CBS television Western anthology series which was a repackaging of episodes from CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
- On 16 Sep 1941, stranger Michael Banyan treks from the Alaskan interior into the small town of Sunivak, Alaska, and is treated with suspicion by the locals. General store owner Hilary Higgins pressures Banyan for information about his summer activities, as he believes that Banyan is a prospector, but Banyan refuses to divulge any information about himself. The townsfolk grow more hostile to Banyan upon learning that he is broke, for the town's supplies are shipped in only twice a year and there is little to spare for an impecunious stranger. Banyan finds two friends in Laurie Lane, who runs the weather station, and barber and newspaper printer Clem Adams, who offers Banyan shelter. Banyan's trouble increases, however, when he is fined fifty dollars for striking Higgins' brutish son Hugo, even though the altercation arose from Banyan's attempt to stop Hugo from beating his dog Flash. Because he cannot pay the fine, Banyan is sentenced to hard labor until 1 October, when the twice-yearly mail boat arrives. Banyan escapes rather than be sent away on the boat, and Laurie and Clem keep him hidden in the weather station. Laurie begins to doubt Banyan though, when her radio is sabotaged so that it can only send messages and not receive them. Although Sunivak is now completely cut off from the outside world, the townspeople carry on as always. Hoping to restore Laurie's faith in him, as well as help out Clem and take his revenge on the callous townspeople, Banyan prints a fake Seattle newspaper, which proclaims that the U.S. has joined World War II, and that Clem is the winner of a thirty-thousand dollar sweepstakes. Banyan gets his Eskimo friend, Willie Soba, to take the paper to Higgins, who immediately offers to buy Laurie's abandoned mercury mine, for he knows that mercury will become a valuable war material. Higgins also buys a half-interest in Clem's sweepstakes ticket, and Clem pays off Banyan's fine with his newfound wealth. The townsfolk also begin serious war preparations, with Laurie in charge of the Red Cross first aid classes, cannery owner Albert Ness plotting out emergency defenses and everyone else pitching in. Banyan cannot take their efforts seriously, however, and when he disobeys one of Ness's orders, he is brought to trial for treason. When Banyan points out the flaws in Ness's plans, his clear reasoning persuades the townspeople to put him in charge of their defenses. Banyan organizes the efforts more efficiently and begins a program to train dogs for war work. Winter passes with everyone working hard, but due to the absence of incoming news, they are unaware of the attack on Pearl Harbor and that the U.S. really is at war. The only person who does know is Ness, a collaborator who stole the receiving tube from Laurie's radio and has been in constant communication with the Japanese, helping them to plan an attack on Sunivak. Meanwhile, Banyan grows nervous about the upcoming arrival of the spring mail boat, and confesses his deception to Laurie. Hoping to save his friends from disgrace, Banyan leaves, but when Higgins sees a real Seattle newspaper, he withdraws his offers to buy Laurie's mine and Clem's ticket. As Banyan is mushing away from Sunivak, he sees Ness welcoming a Japanese landing party and helping them load their machine guns into dogsleds. The enemies chase Banyan, but he gains enough of a lead to warn Laurie, then races into town. The citizens refuse to believe him at first, but when Willie, who has been shot by the Japanese, confirms his story, Banyan whips his well-prepared "troops" into action. Laurie sends out an S.O.S., which is picked up by the Air Force, and the townspeople and their dogs successfully defend Sunivak under Banyan's direction. Ness captures the weather station, but Banyan fights him off, and Flash subdues Ness's Japanese ally. Soon after, the Air Force planes fly overhead on their way to sink the Japanese submarine, and Banyan embraces Laurie while Clem broadcasts a message that the defenses of Sunivak are holding.
- Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a full year before the end of WW II) as a don't-let-it-happen-again sermon. The semi-prologue opening finds Father Jim Donnelly before a post-war planning board in Washington and, as Priests quite often did in 1930 and 1940's films, tells his point-making story in flashback of how WW I vet Eddie Ballinger, shaken by battle experiences anyway, returns home to a job that is no longer there for him and finds "No Help Wanted" signs standing in his way of making an honest living. Despite the pleas from his mother and his sweetheart Lucy Manners, Eddie starts hauling booze for bootlegger Tim Oberta and takes up with entertainer Lola, who eventually betrays him, mainly because she is a one-name character and that's what one-name characters are there for... especially in a movie with the lead playing his 1944 version of Jimmy Cagney in a 1933 Warner's film. Father Jim makes his don't-repeat-the-past point in less than an hour as the hearing committee had also seen and heard the story before.
- John Foster (Conrad Nagel) and Kenneth Grainger (Donald Cook) are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor (Esther Ralston), writes him that their engagement is off, he goes to Mandalay and meets and marries a nightclub singer, Jeanie Barton (Kay Linaker), while on his drunken holiday. When he returns to the post in the jungle he becomes ashamed of his bride, and she has to prove she has the right stuff, which includes spurning Grainger when he hits on her.
- A woman suspected of murdering her fiancée becomes married to a man who is, ironically, the other suspect in the same murder.
- A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
- Kay Barnett, known as Public Debutante #1, is reprimanded by her snobby tycoon father Otis and her stuffy fiance, Standish Prescott, when she fulfills her desire to be a performer by singing at the Kaula Club. Otis admonishes Standish to keep Kay out of such establishments, but after he leaves, Kay and her free-spirited aunt Adelaide convince Standish to take them to the Glass Slipper Dance Hall. There Kay is mistaken for a hostess by Danny O'Brien, an aspiring hoofer who uses her as his partner in the dance derby. They win second prize and then brawl with the first-place winners. Kay and Adelaide return home in disgrace and are chastised by Barnett. Kay refuses to accept her father's demand that she settle down and runs away to a fancy hotel, where she checks in under a false name. The next day, the hotel manager demands that she settle her account, and Danny, who works there as a bellboy, helps her escape after discovering that she does not have any money. He pays her bill and quits his job, then goes home, where Kay is helping his little sister Ginger cook dinner. The O'Briens offer to let Kay stay with them, and Danny and Kay quickly fall in love. Kay and Danny vow to find jobs in show business, and Kay, inspired by Danny's charisma and patience in teaching her new dance steps, suggests that he teach dancing on the radio. They call their would-be show "Professor Danny O'Brien's Dancing School of the Air" and begin looking for sponsors. Their search proves fruitless, however, until they convince Adelaide's suitor, Abner Kellogg, who owns a chain of chiropody stores, to sponsor the show. After the youngsters have made all the plans, Otis hears about the show and threatens Abner, whose store mortgages are held by his trust company, with foreclosure unless he cancels the show. Abner reluctantly does so, and even Standish is dismayed by Otis' dirty trick. Danny discovers that Otis is behind the cancellation and confronts the millionaire. Danny is shocked to learn that not only is Kay Otis' daughter, but that she is engaged to Standish. Disillusioned, Danny returns home, where he tells Ginger that Kay was merely slumming and using them to spice up her life. Unaware of this development, Kay returns to their apartment with the good news that, thanks to help from Standish, she has secured Butch Reilly, owner of the Glass Slipper, as their new sponsor. She is shocked when the O'Briens bitterly denounce her, and she leaves in tears. Later, Danny practices with his new partner Gloria, but Gloria's ineptness inspires Ginger to go to the Barnett home and plead with Kay to reconcile with Danny. Ginger's speech rouses Otis, who insists that Kay fulfill her commitment. The trio races to the dance hall, where Adelaide begins the show by announcing Danny. Kay steps onto the stage in place of Gloria and is welcomed by an overjoyed Danny. The couple put on a fantastic show, which assures their success, and win Barnett's blessing when Danny announces that Kay will soon become Mrs. Danny O'Brien.
- Song writer Duke Wilson and his showgirl sweetheart Lois Rogers have to keep breaking their engagement because Duke keeps losing his money playing poker...and Lois finally declares finis to the whole process. Duke and his pal, Cliff Dugan, write a new musical comedy and get wealthy playboy Bob Madison to back it, but Madison and Lois are now a romantic item , and his backing-plans includes her as the show's leading lady. Duke and Cliff and Madison are drafted, and Ruth goes along to the camp as an official hostess. Then rookie-newly-arrived Buck Private Duke takes over the U.S. Army and proposes his show be produced at the camp, with Lois as the leading lady. Then Lois finds out that Duke is not doing this just to entertain his fellow rookies, but in order to "test" the show for professional production. Lois declares this to be a selfish move on his part.
- A lady investigator from San Francisco,invited with her wisecracking friend to a society event on a Western ranch in the country,gets involved trying to get information on the husband of her hostess.He is having an affair with another woman and eventually someone gets killed,leading to a murder that needs to be solved.
- Feature version of the 1938 serial of the same name.
- The second of the nine-film series based on "The Higgins Family" from Republic, with James and Lucile Gleason in the first seven, replaced by Roscoe Karns and Ruth Donnelly in the last two entries, "Meet the Missus" and "Petticoat Politics." In this one Joe Higgins buys his wife Lil an expensive ring for their 25th wedding anniversary on the installment plan, and loses his job at the candy factory owned by Mr. Ellis on the same day; Ellis' son Bill also announces his intention to marry the Higgins' daughter Jean, over the protests of Ellis and his snooty wife. Joe loses the ring and his dumb son Sidney thinks it is in a package of a new nickel candy bar, and offers a reward for its return. The sales of the candy skyrocket. Elsewhere, Grandpa, concerned over the family's financial affairs, decides to marry rich widow Jones, who has been pursuing him for years.
- When Joe Higgins returns home from a hard day's work at the Ellis Advertising Agency, he is furious to find that his wife Lil has not prepared dinner. Lil is instead at the home of her friend, Lucy Davis, working on a contest. Joe gets his dinner when Lil comes home and leaves afterwards for an evening meeting. He is forced to take his son Sidney's jalopy, when Sid and daughter Betty take his car to a dance, and at the meeting, he becomes a hero when he inadvertently gives Dover, an important new client, the idea to promote his dog biscuits with a contest. Joe's boss Ellis is impressed and promises to discuss a promotion with Joe if Joe gives him a ride home. Sid's jalopy is certainly not impressive, however, and Joe gives Ellis the keys to his car when they pass the dance hall where the children are. Unaware of his father's actions, Sid reports the car stolen, and Ellis spends the night in jail. Joe loses the promotion and is not the least sympathetic later that evening when Lil discovers that Lucy stole her slogan and won their contest with it. Lil takes out her anger on Lucy's son Bill, who is Betty's boyfriend, by throwing him out of the house. The next day, Lil apologizes to Lucy and Bill but is again enraged when she finds out that Lucy has bought the local store's supply of the dog biscuit boxes containing the new contest. Lil manages to get other boxes, however, and soon the house is overflowing with dog biscuits, which son Tommy suggests they dispose of by getting a dog. King, a Great Dane, is added to the household, much to Joe's consternation, and the next day, Lil finds what she believes is the winning box. Her joy is short-lived though, when she reads the rules and discovers that employees of the advertising agency and their families are not eligible to win. Lil convinces her father, Grandpa Ed Carson, to help her persuade Joe to resign so that she can collect the prize. Grandpa enlists the aid of his friend Irving, a custodian in the building where Brown, Ellis' chief competitor and Dover's former advertiser, works. Irving impersonates Brown and offers Joe the job of general manager. Joe accepts the job on Friday, but is humiliated on Monday when he meets the real Brown and discovers that he has been set up. Dover foils Lil's scheme by switching back to Brown when he hears that Joe now works there, and Brown calls Joe to offer him the job for real in order to retain Dover. When Joe leaves the house after receiving the call, he is pursued by Lil and Sid, who want to stop him from accepting. They in turn are followed by Grandpa, who heard on the radio that Lucy won the contest. After a mad dash, they all reach Brown's office, and the matter is straightened out to Joe's satisfaction. Lucy promises to use some of the $50,000 prize money to pay for Bill and Betty's honeymoon, and harmony is restored to the Higgins household, which is now devoid of contests.
- Chuck Stevens(William Lundigan), a sailor who is allergic to women, receives a letter notifying him that he will inherit a large sum of money if he marries before his next birthday, Not realizing the letter was sent by two of his pals, Chuck decides to court a girl.
- The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
- "Spinner" McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by "Pop" Hussey from being condemned. "Spinner's" recklessness, combined with the efforts of others who have a vested interest in seeing the field closed, make it a hard task to accomplish, but famous-flyer Colonel Roscoe Turner is on hand to help.
- Woody Davis and are Tex Moore ambitious and enterprising friends who decide to become South American oil drillers in hope of becoming wealthy. Woody and Tex set up a site, but unfortunately, must spend their time fending off attacks from the rebellious locals. Their friendship is also threatened by the beautiful Havana who comes between them.
- When unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to heirs of Don Quantero.
- Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
- Munroe is military dog, though not the best trained dog ever, he has two good human friends.
- After a drought renders their farm worthless, Abner Weaver, his wife Elviry, daughter Violey and brother Cicero move West in search of a new life. Along the way they meet a group of tramps, who take them to their camp for a meal. The hobo congregation includes the Breeze Kid, a former law student; Doc, who was a brilliant surgeon; and Notes, a once renowned songwriter. Breeze explains to the Weavers that the tramps are decent men whose troubles have forced them from the mainstream of civilization. Their music-filled gathering is interrupted, however, when wealthy merchant Silas Barton brings the police from nearby Riverview and accuses Notes of theft. Everyone protests that Notes has not left the camp, but Barton's meanspiritedness soon starts a huge brawl. The Weavers' possessions are lost in a fire started by the police, and they beat a hasty retreat with Breeze and Doc. The band of travelers walks to Williamsville, a once prosperous town that has been deserted due to flooding. They are taken in by the kindly jailer, Bumblebee Hibbs, and the next morning, Nancy Williams takes them home for breakfast. Nancy is the granddaughter of Martha Williams, the town's founder whose blindness has prevented her from seeing the rundown condition of her beloved town. Nancy does not tell her grandmother of the present conditions, instead letting her believe that Williamsville maintains its former glory. The Williams let the Weavers, Breeze and Doc hide at their home for a week until Barton's warrant against them expires. As the week passes, Nancy and Breeze fall in love, Doc determines that surgery can restore Martha's eyesight, and the Weavers discover that a levee could be built to save the town from flooding. They need to get the governor's approval, however, and to do so they scheme to have him become indebted to them. Cicero disguises himself as a highway bandit and holds up the governor's car, then the other Weavers pretend to rescue him. The grateful governor agrees to tour their town, and if it is prosperous and deserving, he will approve the levee plans. Doc and Breeze send out the word to other hobos, and while Martha recuperates from her successful eye surgery, the Weavers and the hobos rebuild the town. They obtain clothes, cars, groceries and musical instruments from Barton's credit stores despite his protests, and soon they welcome the governor in a big celebration. The governor is impressed and readily agrees to build the levee until Barton bursts in and denounces the tramps. The governor leaves in a huff, but Martha urges the hobos to stay and build a real life for themselves. They all agree and the Weavers rush after the governor. They tell him what good publicity it will be for him to have redeemed so many wanderers, and the governor, who at last recognizes Cicero, laughingly agrees to help them. Soon the levee is built, the town's new inhabitants are happily settled in, and Cicero is the best man at Breeze and Nancy's wedding.
- A gang member enlists in the Marines to help his boss steal secret military plans for an aerial torpedo. But will his new experiences with the camaraderie of fellow soldiers result in a moral transformation?