Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco…

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

An auto engineer (Herbert Marshall) and a professor’s daughter (Jean Arthur) pose as married servants in a mobster’s (Leo Carrillo) mansion.