Russell Hicks
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Farmer Frank (Henry Fonda) and his ward (Jackie Cooper) hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake’s buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry’s sister, Connie. But it’s not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry’s jobs for her and, despite Connie’s dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
A shipwreck victim (John Loder) washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter’s (Edgar Barrier) Caribbean island.
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman after rescuing her from an attack. She believes he is rich and her boyfriend persuades her to con him out of his fortune.
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.