In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl,…

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.