Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.