在一家豪华酒店里，舞台导演尼科莱夫为了筹钱支付账单而上演一场表演。支持这场表演的普伦蒂斯夫人希望她的女儿安妮能嫁给百万富翁T.莫斯利·索普，但安妮却爱上了迪克·柯蒂斯，而迪克的女朋友却嫁给了安妮的兄弟汉伯特。然而，酒店的速记员贝蒂知道如何避免与年迈的普伦蒂斯夫人产生困难。

An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.

John Ellman (Boris Karloff) has been framed for murder by a gang of racketeers. He is unfairly tried and despite the fact that his innocence has been proven, he is sent to the electric chair and executed. Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) retrieves his dead body and revives it, as part of his experiments to reanimate a dead body and discover what happens to the soul after death.
Dr. Beaumont's use of a mechanical heart to revive the patient foreshadows modern medicine's mechanical heart to keep patients alive during surgery. Although John Ellman has no direct knowledge of anyone wishing to frame him for the murder before he is executed, he gains an innate sense of knowing those who are responsible after he is revived. Ellman takes no direct action against his framers; however, he seeks them out, wishing to know why they had him killed. Each dies a horrible death, and in the end it is their own guilt that causes their deaths.
Confronting the last two villains, Ellman is shot. Having fulfilled his divine mission to bring about justice, he dies, just before he would have explained death and the afterlife to the curious Dr. Beaumont. Beaumont is warned not to continue his experiments, citing the Biblical Scripture, "For the LORD thy God is a jealous God (Deut. 6:15a)."

1944 film by Tim Whelan

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man. He takes the blame and is dismissed, replaced by the obnoxious, gloating Buckley. Feeling vengeful, Grodman would like nothing more than to see Buckley look foolish on the job. His friend Victor Emmric, an artist with macabre tastes, wouldn't mind either and soon a mysterious murder occurs that may provide them with the chance.