Botanist Hall, hired by Branch, the sadistic and controlling manger of a Brazilian rubber plantation whose owner he controls by financial duress, falls in love with the owner's daughter who is also the reluctant fiancée of Branch.
Reverend Hardin wants to improve the attitude of his disbelieving future son-in-law, Ted, who is working on a vaccine. When he receives his million-dollar gift, he buys lab equipment for Ted and funds a foundation when the trials fail.
A salesgirl while working as a hospital volunteer alongside society girls draws the romantic interest of the young board chairman and the unbridled envy of one of the society girls.
A husband who is aggrieved over his wife's extreme jealousy concerning business meetings with women has to face his own feelings when the wife begins having similar meetings using money from her million to help close his business deal.
A doctor and his girlfriend travel to the USA so he can undergo a new procedure that might reverse his terminal condition. While there he finds he must disprove his girlfriend's murder charge.
Framed for fraud by a partner, Brian Hendricks hires a man to kill him so his family can get a life insurance payout. Hendricks tries to cancel the deal after receiving his check, but he learns the man he hired has subcontracted the job.
A diffident travel agent dislikes children because, 40 years before, his wife died in pregnancy, as they were about to take a world trip. After receiving his million, he takes the trip and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife.
An aerialist long distraught over the performance death of his wife descends into gambling and irresponsible behavior. He is transformed by the love of the circus owner's sister and love for a boy with an elephant.
A beautiful model scarred in an automobile accident uses a portion of her million dollars for plastic surgery to restore her looks. She then plans revenge on the driver (her photographer and beau), who shunned her while she was scarred.
An abnormally fearless test pilot eschews depth in personal relationships until he meets a beautiful psychologist while she is conducting a psychological study.
A modest, thrifty, and handy woman marries a domineering, social-climbing husband. After he embezzles funds and dies in an accident, she must repay the funds or lose custody of the man's daughter, whom she adores (and who adores her).
Eric and Helen Vincent are about to lose the orphanage they have been running for war orphans. The gift of a million dollars seems to solve their problems at first, but soon they find it has created another.
A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.
An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company, because he has evidence the accused woman, for whom he has fallen, is innocent. But the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.
A World War II veteran comes under suspicion for theft of antiquities because he uses a great deal of his money to oversee the repair of a French abbey which sheltered him from the Nazis during the war.
Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend, because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious. But the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.
Detective Ed Murdock 's wife pleads with him to leave the force after they receive the million but Murdock is determined to bring to justice the man who critically wounded his former partner before he leaves the force.
The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.
A military bomb disposal expert receives his million-dollar check just as he is ready to separate from the service. But he is forced to disarm ordinance one last time because his replacement is not quite prepared.
Sally Delaney, an assistant to an overbearing fashion designer, uses her million to open her own fashion business. But much to her remorse, she creates a work culture similar to that of her former boss.
A dispassionate and extremely focused doctor tries to pay a disreputable mariner to forget his romance with her sister but feels her dispassion waning in the presence of the man while guilty over a betrayal of her sister.
Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications ensue when Marion falls for her sister's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.
After receiving her check, a woman goes undercover at a trucking company that her reporter husband was investigating in connection with a narcotics ring to find clues in the husband's car bomb murder.
A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.
Charles Simpson uses his money to move from a home for indigent World War I veterans, whose residents he dislikes, to luxurious surroundings, bringing his friend 'Stony' with him. But Stony misses the home's camaraderie.
The operator of a small newspaper uses his money to expose a crooked politician but uncovers facts about a woman that is resistant to his marriage proposal that makes her acceptance even more unlikely.
When Virginia Lennart receives her million dollars, she closes the hamburger diner she owns in Keokuk, Iowa and travels with her friend, Emmy, through Europe where she finds romance in Rome with an Italian count.
An older teen from the edgy streets uses his money to buy a business so he can marry the neighbor girl, but old associations could derail his path to reform.
A reform candidate for mayor who seeks to unseat a incumbent known for underhanded tactics forms an association that might prove detrimental with the incumbent's female assistant.
Butler Waldo Turner seeks to financially help the family that employs him, but sadly, they refuse because they think he loves the daughter who will marry him. But Turner actually speaks for his son, whom the daughter actually loves.
Jay Powers receives his million upon release from prison. He intends to use the money to expose and ruin the boss he believes framed him, despite his lingering feelings for the man's daughter.
Harry Borden as an former orphan longs for a family so funds a home for boys of missing parents while estranged from a selfish wife who hopes for a childless marriage but returns at the start of home when she must prove a change of heart.
When a woman's first husband, believed killed in war, returns after years in a prison camp, the woman must choose between the straightforward first husband and her idealistic second husband.
A struggling immigrant shoemaker uses his entire check to buy the painting of his dreams. Soon after, he realizes that he must exchange it for a copy to use the money to further the dreams of his family.
When Henry Denson deduces that his sister-in-law, Mildred, has a great sum of money, he plots the murder of Mildred and her husband-to-be, Fred, so that his wife will inherit the money.
A single, demure switchboard operator is mistaken for a married socialite. She uses her money to continue the charade so she might keep the attention of a handsome bachelor of means, who avoids the company of single women.
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