Janos Szabo is a kind, innocent immigrant to America. Just after he arrives though, he is caught in a fire and his face is horribly burned and disfigured. Although a skilled craftsman his hideous features make it impossible for him to get work, and driven by despair he is forced to turn to crime to live. He finds himself very proficient at that, and soon makes enough money to buy a very lifelike mask to hide his scars behind. He hates what he does, but is he in too deep to get out? Written by Ken Yousten

The telephone technician Mal Granger is a gambler and bon vivant. One day, his bookie and friend Chippie Evans introduces him to the crime boss Vince Walters and Granger proposes to expand his illegal bookmaking and gambling business using his technical knowledge of communication. Walters becomes a success and Granger forces him to make him his partner with 20% share. When Walters is killed by a bookie that commits suicide later, Granger becomes the owner of his business. Soon his business attracts the attention of the mafia and the powerful boss Carl Stephans proposes Granger to join his syndicate, with 50% of the profits. Granger accepts the deal and the bookies that do not accept the 20% fees for protection imposed by the syndicate suffer retaliation. The mobster Larry Mason is assigned by the syndicate to work in California with Granger and brings his seductive wife Gail Mason. Granger and Gail fall in love with each other and have a love affair. Granger's accountant Trudy Maxwell finds that Granger has been lured by the syndicate and he complains with Stephans that tells that there are additional costs in his shares. When Larry beats Gail, Granger hires the hitman Gizzi to kill Larry. Meanwhile, the honest Lt. Pete Wright from the Gangster Squad is investigating Granger, in the beginning of his downfall. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

Martin Schulz (Paul Lukas), a German-American art dealer, returns to Germany at the outbreak of World War Two, adopts the Nazi propaganda philosophy, refuses to protect the Jewish fiancee, Griselle Eisenstein (K.T. Stevens), of his son Heinrich Schulz (Peter Van Eyck), who has stayed in America to run the family business, and ultimately falls victim to the Gestapo himself. Written by Les Adams

Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.

Middle-aged European pianist Paul Marvan (Hugo Haas) is brought to America by wealthy widow Diana Fowler (Mona Barrie) and he meets and weds a canary-blonde named Margo (Cleo Moore), who is a nightclub dancing partner to Carlo (Rick Vallin). Margos trampy and flirty behavior inflames Marvan, who is also disturbed over increasing financial and professional straits, since Diana, his wealthy sponsor was more than a little perturbed after Marvan married the little tramp. He thrusts one hand into a printing press in hopes of collecting $50,000 insurance, but payment is refused when it is disclosed his mishap wasnt an accident. Margo returns to Carlo, and Marvan finds refuge in a Salvation Army shelter, now playing the piano with one hand. Written by Les Adams

Treasury Department officials recruit a florist to lead them to a wanted criminal, but once he gets too close, he finds that he's the hunted.

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.

During the 1950s, the Cold War is pitting the USA and its allies against the USSR and its satellites. One such Soviet satellite nation, Hungary, arrests an American named Anderson, and charges him with spying. Communist Hungary is putting on a show trial which is broadcast internationally, to prove the hostile aims of aggressive American Imperialists. The heavily censored news from the trial in Budapest come down the wire to the Paris office of the New York Herald-Tribune where editor-in-chief Nick Strang anxiously awaits more details from his Budapest correspondent, Barker. Nick also assigns journalist Jeanne Moray, a Frenchwoman, and the papers top reporter, American Jimmy Race, to interview the Hungarian ambassador in Paris. Unbeknown to them, Hungarian agents clandestinely follow Jeanne and Jimmy Race to the embassy. These agents have a good reason to follow Jeanne. While she was in Budapest, she was investigating a lead that could prove the Hungarian leadership is attempting a secret rapprochement with Yugoslavias President Bros Tito, in defiance of the Soviet policy that banned its satellites from getting cozy with non-aligned Yugoslavia. If this information is true and can be proved, it could land the Hungarian leadership in hot water with the Soviets. Thats why Hungarian agents shadow Jeanne and it could also be the reason why Hungary retaliated with a phony trial on spying charges against the American citizen Anderson. When the Hungarian spy trial of Anderson ends, the verdict is 20 years in a hard labor camp. The Hungarian leadership vows to hang the next American spy caught in Hungary. The Hungarians also are interested in a Hungarian defector, Gabor Chechi, who escaped Hungary but is assumed to have been assassinated. The Hungarians suspect that Chechi remains alive somewhere in France and that reporter Jeanne Moray might know where Chechi is. When the newspapers Budapest correspondent, Barker, ends up in a Budapest hospital after a heart-attack, editor-in-chief Nick Strang assigns top reporter Jimmy Race to replace Barker. Jimmy Race arrives in Budapest and thats when his nightmare begins. Written by nufs68

A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.