In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.