Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.

An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.

A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests turning the case into a TV show episode.

A rancher's foreman schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?

In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.

Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.