Edwin Maxwell

In 16th-century Italy, a strict patriarch will not allow his daughter to marry the man she loves until her headstrong older sister gets married.

An ocean liner secretly being used to test a military technology that can command ships by remote control is hijacked by a hostile foreign power.

Marcia Harper (Sleeper) sets out to send a group of racketeers, headed by villain John Hart (Blackmer), to prison after they cheat her out of a small inheritance from her father by claiming that her father owed them money. She is aided in her venture by industrious reporter Phil Stewart (Toomey), who acquires a mysterious old Roman coin that becomes the key to bringing down the racketeers.

On a transcontinental flight from New York City to Los Angeles, Joan Lawson, the flight hostess, attracts the attention of a movie producer, Dave Miller, and he tries to persuade her to sign a movie contract.

When oil speculators start to prey on a businesswoman and landowner, a young racecar driver comes to her rescue time and time again.

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few owned by Jewish familes.