Peter Bartley wants to use his money to find and help his two younger brothers who were separated from him by adoption from a Catholic orphanage where Pete grew to adulthood.

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.

Barbara Lydon forsakes her longtime hometown love and uses her million to travel to Switzerland where she becomes romantically involved with a count caught up in a live and death struggle over a World War II grudge.

Wheelchair bound and of faded fortune, Regina Wainwright of southern aristocratic heritage hides her million to make her daughter think that the mother is dependent on her and to spoil the daughter's relationship with a Yankee suitor.

An American medical student in Paris losing in his rivalry for an American art student to a French composer due to her sympathy for the man after he loses sight in an accident uses his check to restore the rivals sight to even the odds.

An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.

When Michael Holm receives his million, he decides to leave his meager and unrewarding law practice to become a man of leisure until his girlfriend introduces him to a man in a shaky legal situation and he sees the good he can now do.

After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.

Ruth Ferris' envious sister's engages in campaign to drive a wedge between Ruth and her new husband by suggesting the man has married Ruth for her money and will kill her for it as the sister thinks he did to his first wife.

An art dealer uses his million to start an island artists' colony while dealing with an uncooperative and shrewish wife and becoming increasingly enamored of a young model and dancer.

A high school principal, the check recipient , must guide his son in dealing with a group of young hoodlums who beat his friend to death and now threaten the son.

Johanna Judson abruptly leaves her employment as a companion for a grumpy woman but asks the woman's charming nephew to enter into a marriage of convenience because she wants a companion to share her travels funded with her money.

A policewoman uses her million in an attempt to prove that her policeman boyfriend was framed by whom she believes is an unscrupulous fur dealer in a robbery scheme executed to collect insurance.

When Russ White goes to thank and offer financial help to the family of the man who gave White his cornea, he is initially rebuffed because of a scandal of which he is unaware and which becomes more complex upon investigation.

Three spinster sisters receive jointly the million and start a spending spree that draws suspicion, particularly of busybody Atwood, on sister Tessie of embezzlement of government funds in her duties as town clerk.

Paul Naylor believes that his wife and daughter value him only for the things he provides for them so when he receives his million he withdraws from his all consuming business and pretends to be broke to assess their reaction.

A newspaper man who ruthlessly embellishes the misdeeds of others in his stories uses his million to buy controlling interest in his paper but a female reporter could have unsavory and damaging details about the man's past.

Larry Parker pines for a French woman he met in the war so much that he takes for granted a loving wife but is able to resolve the conflict when the money allows Parker and his wife to take a European trip with a stop in France.

Wally Banister is shunned and even fired from his job for hanging a jury in a murder trial so when he gets his million he uses the money to prove the innocence of the defendant in that trial.

To give the million Anthony traces Rod Matthews to a secluded island where he hides after being unjustly court marshaled and disowned by family and Matthews decides to use the money return to the United States and exact revenge.

The recipient this week is a retired widower who has just been joined by his son, a recent graduate of law school but not ready to start his own office. Upon getting the million dollars, the old man buys a two luxury apartments for his son and himself, and starts an affair with a far younger manicure girl. The son tries to stop it, but falls for her instead.

Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.

A man who has suffered amnesia in a hotel fire uses his money to search his identity and discovers his involvement in a romantic triangle which led to murder.

Steve Logan uses his money to start a construction business with his Korean War buddy Larry who has been crippled by a job accident saving Steve's life which condition makes Larry feel unworthy to compete for a woman the two men love.

An actress ' misguided effort to use her money to revive a long faded career is interrupted when the demands of an old love forces to her reconsider her plans.