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.

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.

Dr. Alan March lets down a very good friend who dies on the operating table, holding himself responsible he quits his practice and searches for an old love.

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.

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

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.

Hamburger waitress Virginia Lennart receives the million and takes her best friend Emmy and they go through Europe looking for romance and find it in a Palazzo in Italy with a certain count.

Charles Simpson uses his money to move from a home for indigent World War I veterans whose residents he dislikes to luxurious surroundings bringing his friend Stony with him but 'Stony' misses the home's camaraderie.

A no-good punk gets a chance to make something of his life and ends up endangering his girl, via ""The Wild One"" rip-off street race.

Harvey Borden the savior of the underdogs comes to the aide of an orphan against his wife's wishes.

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

Dan Larsen. head supermarket cashier of extreme punctuality and regimentation, is robbed of a sizable deposit despite a complicated system to disguise the exact date on which the actual deposit will occur.

After receiving her check, a woman goes undercover at a trucking company that her reporter husband was investigating in connection with a narcotics ring to find clues in the husband's car bomb murder.

Betty moves to Miami to find love and excitement instead she finds a switchboard operator job and snobs.

Widow Nancy Wellington who has made due after her husband's death longs for romance from a man from her past. Her daughter feels her mother has sacrificed enough for her and runs away.

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.

A struggling immigrant shoemaker uses his entire check to buy the painting of his dreams which he must exchange for a copy to use the money to further dreams of his family.

A waitress in love with a philandering Airline pilot finds true love with his brother.

A young lawyer becomes politically active and runs against the political crooks who try to destroy his character.

When Henry Denson deduces that his sister-in-law Mildred has a great sum of money, he plots the murder of Mildred and her husband to be Fred so that his wife will inherit the money.

Pete Hill starts a stalking campaign against Jerry Patterson who was his best friend and business partner because Pete believes Jerry's apparent good fortune is evidence that Jerry has cheated him out of his share of a uranium find.

Jimmy Reilly uses his check to look for an Italian girl he met during the War.

An ex-con goes after the judge who sentenced him and his target is the Judge's family.

Tortured by his conscience, a revolutionary refugee from a failed rebellion uses his money to find and provide for a small boy whose parents he killed in the war.