A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.