Alexander Leftwich
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
A famous aviator (William Gargan) helps an amateur (Kay Francis) enter a cross-country air race for women.
Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
