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- An anthology, the episodes of which were based mostly on the original short stories of Daymon Runyan.
- The Macarone Kid is offered five grand to bump off a man who says he has only a month to live. But something is fishy about this solid-sounding deal, and the kid does differently.
- Shortly before world War 2, two mobsters are forced to flee to France where they hide in a fishing village.
- Unexpected aid from three small-time gamblers helps Harvard in the Harvard-Yale boat race.
- Two men who witness a robbery try to get themselves arrested for the crime.
- A gambler tries to raise money to buy a bank that wouldn't cash his check.
- When a bookie borrows $10,000 to open a commission brokerage, he gives his daughter as security.
- "The Brain" fears his gambling empire will be finished if his political backer is not re-elected. To insure favorable press notices for his candidate, Harris buys a newspaper. But he doesn't figure on the honesty of its young editor.
- As payment for a debt, two gamblers force Fatso Zimpf to help them rob a charity affair.
- A horse player wins a large bet and spends his winnings on a calf whose eyes remind him of his girl friend. Not at all flattered by this gesture, the young lady breaks up with the well-meaning but tactless lover.
- The romance between dapper young Dancing Dan and his girl, Judy O'Neill, hits a snag when a very influential mobster decides that Judy reminds him of his mother. Judy, however, is not happy with the change.
- A safe-cracker is unwittingly involved in murder and kidnapping.
- A slot-machine baron, learning that his daughter is going to visit him, hires a phony art-dealer to lead a touch of class to his home.
- A real-estate agent (Will Wright) will stop at nothing to get rid of an antique dealer who's blocking the construction of a skyscraper.
- A man marries a rich widow through a lonely hearts ad and goes to her secluded farm for a honeymoon.
- An ex-convict convinces a young man that he possesses miraculous healing powers and sets him up in business. Then the young man falls in love with a patient.
- A lucky win in a numbers game starts a wealthy socialite on a whirlwind adventure. She goes into business on her own in competition with one Numbers Dorson, an old hand at the numbers racket.
- Four fugitives from Broadway, two guys, a doll and a broken down nag take a trip down to the Blue Grass State to visit a colonel who's lost his prize mare. Object: a slight swindle.
- A killing at a dice game enables Lucky Farrar and his girl to take a trip south to Hialeah. But Lucky's luck at the race track is all bad until he meets a young Princeton professor and a sure-fire system.
- A jobless bodyguard is hired to transport firearms south of the border. The purpose of the mission is to aid revolutionary forces. The results of the mission are somewhat unexpected.
- Two con men unload a statue on the people of Centerhaven, claiming it's of the town's most famous son.
- An elderly schoolteacher inherits a bookmaking empire.
- A fight promoter helps a deposed king regain his throne and the girl he loves.
- While serving with the U.S. Army in Germany, a gambler meets an orphaned teenager who turns out to be a whiz at calculating dice combinations. With the boy's help, our hero cleans up in the local dice games and sees a chance to continue his "luck" when the refugee emigrates to the States.
- A Broadway cardsharp is captured by the Germans during World War II. In the prison camp he gives an excellent exhibition of his skill, this time making a sadistic Nazi colonel his victim.
- A Broadway chorus girl, who's married to s con artist, comes into a lot of money and uses it to try to break into New York "high society".
- A bookie revamps his ethical codes when his 11 year old son is dropped from a ball team because of cheating.
- Three bank robbers hide out in the home of an unsuspecting young widow.
- A meek diaper service delivery man suffers because his girlfriend yearns for the movie-gangster type. In hopes of getting some pointers, Tobias visits the local mobster hangout, just in time for a raid.
- An old actress (Virginia Field) is able to make a comeback after being rejuvenated by a series of beauty treatments.
- A down-and-out race-track tout (Brian Donlevy) foils a robbery attempt by a notorious thief.
- A beautiful blonde mink coat helps a woman find the man who murdered his boss.
- A frustrated boxer dreams of making his son into a great prizefighter.
- A man kidnaps a champion terrier in hopes of collecting a ransom.
- To receive his $100,000 inheritance, Jerry Leonard must come up with a college degree but he just flunked out.
- Two horse players parlay a fake diamond ring and a chance discovery into a fortune.
- A battered prizefighter falls in love with a debutante. Hoping to please her, he has his face remodeled and gives up fighting. This works out fine until one of her former boyfriends passes on some information.
- A poultry man refuses to allow a gambler to marry his daughter unless he gives up gambling and enters his business.