When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.