The film stars James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O'Neill and Grant Withers.

They visit the Cleveland home of the first person who wrote a will benefiting Kingsby, a man named Kempen.

They meet his attorney, Jeff Caign, and learn Kempen intended to leave the money to a singer, Lili Roegan.

Carola and Caign, now lovers, go to New York City, where they are taken captive by Kingsby and pressured to reveal where the missing wills are.

The police close in, kill Kingby but don't charge Carola and Caign, who are free to get on with their sordid lives.