An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

A mobster’s daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A…

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out…

A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.