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- A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.
- An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
- Two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice.
- Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
- A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes.
- A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold.
- An unscrupulous minister starts a 'back to Africa' movement.
- A crazed scientist needs primates to conduct experiments to prove his own theory of evolution, so he organizes an expedition into the jungles of Borneo to capture the animals he needs.
- Two cut-rate private detectives are broke, hungry and down to their last nickel. They decide to hock their banjo in order to get some money for food, and while one partner is negotiating the deal, the other one falls asleep and dreams that a wealthy society matron has hired them to investigate a string of suitors.
- A well meaning Dr. lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that they are members Harlem tough -kid gang, they suspect that their operation there conducting nefarious deeds.
- Mantan takes a job as office boy at a new TV station and gets to watch several pre-recorded musical numbers.
- After collecting his usual meager paycheck, Mantan, a part time janitor at the local courthouse, commiserates with his ne'er-do-well friend Alex, who is similarly poorly paid. Since Mayor Henry Corbit has been arrested for drunken driving and sentenced by the famous "poetical" judge, Alex comes upon the idea of having Mantan run for mayor, with Alex serving as his campaign manager.
- Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it.
- Kenny Harrington, the star football player of Gilmore College, leads his team to many victories, raising hopes that Gilmore will play in the "Peach Bowl," the championship playoffs of the Western conference. Unknown to Kenny, Downey, the head of a gambling syndicate, has placed a $100,000 bet against the Gilmore team and has sent his henchman, Green, to see to it that Kenny does not play in the upcoming game. When Green and Johnson, head of the west coast offices of the gambling syndicate, find Kenny at the Collegiate Café and offer him $25,000 to leave the team until after the Peach Bowl, Kenny, his pal Phil Harrington and other college students throw them out of the cafe. Later, Phil throws a party at Johnson's cafe, where a brawl breaks out when he cannot pay the bill. When Kenny and his trainer, Nash, learn of the riot, they rush to the cafe and help Phil and the other students escape. After Green and Johnson blackmail Kenny, threatening to reveal that he was responsible for knocking a waiter at the cafe unconscious, Kenny agrees to drop out of the team's game against Carlton College. Just before the game, however, Kenny decides to play, and he helps his team win. To get back at Kenny for double-crossing them, the gamblers bribe Rose, a "college widow," to lure him and Phil to their hideout, where they plan to hold them captive. As the game between Gilmore and Union gets underway, Myra, Kenny's sweetheart, and her pal Daisy confront Rose and force her to tell them where Phil and Kenny are being held. With help from other members of Kenny's team and from the police, Myra and Daisy go to the hideout and arrive in time to save them. The gangsters are placed under arrest, and Kenny is rushed to the football field, where he eventually leads the team to victory. With Gilmore's place in the Peach Bowl playoffs assured, Kenny and Myra plan their wedding.
- An old rancher is accused of a murder that was actually committed by a killer called The Laramie Kid. The rancher's son sets out to track the real killer down.
- A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.
- Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them arrested. After a series of disasters--they ruin a customer's suit, their store blows up--they get a telegram notifying them that a man they once did a kindness for has left them quite a bit of money and a house, but in order to get the inheritance, they have to spend a night in the bedroom of the man's house. When they arrive there, they notice two things--the place is kind of creepy and a series of spooky incidents leaves them to believe the house is haunted.
- Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older brother of one of the youths.
- Exploitative roadshow documentary focusing on gangsters of the 1930's: Bonnie Parker (and Clyde Barrow), John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Pretty Boy Floyd.
- Undercover anti-gang agent works in a nightclub where a protection racket is headquartered.
- Two ne'er-do-wells, Washington and Jefferson, just out of prison are looking for jobs so they won't get arrested for vagrancy. They find out that the wealthy Mrs. Brown is looking to hire a butler and a maid, and Jefferson talks Washington into dressing up as a woman so they can get both jobs. They get the jobs, but they soon run into Bad News Johnson, a crook they met in prison. They find out that Johnson is planning to pull a con on Mrs. Brown and he wants them to go in on it with him. Complications ensue.