A diffident travel agent who dislikes children because his wife died in pregnancy as they were about to take a world trip opts to take the trip with the money and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife who changes his life.

A modest, thrifty and handy woman must repay funds embezzled by a domineering, social climbing husband after the man's accidental death to gain custody of the man's daughter who she adores.

A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.

Before they use the money for corrective surgery, Rita Morgan implores her husband to take her to place she was crippled in her husband's boating accident where they are intercepted by an run away convict but Fred devises an escape.

A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker and also neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss from whom the female coworker desires attention as the two avoid their mutual feelings.

A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.

An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company because he has evidence the accused woman for which he has fallen is innocent but the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.

The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.

Terrence Costigan receives someone else's check and tries to find the real recipient.

Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications unsue when Marion falls for her sister Kathy's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.

After serving time in prison for embezzlement and receiving the million dollars, Jay Powers sets out to prove his innocence.

Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

Michael has a hard time finding Alicia Osante because she's trying to avoid immigration officials, with the help of sailor William Williams, who is on leave from San Diego.

A small town librarian with aspirations to be a writer is mistaken as the secretive writer of racy romance novels by town folk and the fact she cannot dissuade their talk becomes more complicated when a reporter comes to do her story.

Charles Bradwell works as a janitor for a school, but has no family to call his own. After getting his million dollars, decides to go out and find a family to claim as his own.

A selfish career woman thinks her million will allow her to marry a dedicated young doctor whose attention she has cynically accepted and whose work she has disrespected.

Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

Jerry Bell believes that he is unloved because he is ugly but finds love with a blind woman and uses his million to cure her blindness although he thinks she will reject him once able to see.

After graduation from college, John Hawley (Richard Jaeckel) takes a job in Mexico for a mining company. John's wife Betty (Lisa Daniels) is pregnant and desperate to have their child in a hospital and in America. Hence, John agrees to accept $1,000 to drive over rutted dirt roads in an old rickety truck loaded with nitroglycerin to a mine cave-in many miles off.

Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.

After Elliot Smith marries nurse Doris Winslow who is unaware of Smith's great family wealth, another jealous nurse jeopardizes the marriage by causing Smith to believe that Winslow has married him for his money.

A man facing imminent execution for a murder he was framed of doing uses his million to buy evidence that he hopes will prove his innocence.

Unassuming Sam Donovan seems to spend his million frivolously without abandon much to the consternation of his controlling parsimonious fiancée.

Butler Waldo Francis Turner receives the million dollars and helps out his employer and his son unaware that everyone thinks he is in love with Wainwright's daughter.

Michael Anthony can't believe that a hermit could be the correct recipient of the check.