International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants. One wishes to marry an upstanding young man, but his priggish father wants him to marry money...
A one-armed circus animal tamer regains his son and the confidence he lost along with his wife.
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
Joe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Joe goes to prison for the murder. When Joe gets out of prison, he visits his son "Little Pal" at school. Little Pal tries to follow Joe downtown, but is hit by a truck.
