A white man is living among the aboriginal people. Inspecter Lastrade of the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone plays the white man, a little out of character.
Lassie. An old prospector finally strikes it rich and goes looking for his partner who has passed away and left a boy fatherless. The old man leaves his dog with the boy for company and is killed by his new partner. Lassie knows the truth and the man poisons her. She barely pulls through but when she does she goes after him.
Mickey, the half brother of a famed war fighter pilot fails to get into the canadian air corps. The halp brother, Jerry is now with the Department of Justice and is assigned to stop oil smugglers. Jerry is fiends with one of the smugglers and infiltrates the gang, he is also in love with the gang member's (Raoul) sister Molly. The plot thickens.
Two friends, a composer and an artist go to turn of the century New York City. They meet and both fall i love with the same girl. The artist has her model which outrages her father but leads to a Broadway role. She finds out the artist is inscensere and falls in love with the composer
A knife carrying mysterious Egyptian finds the thief that stole a sacred jewel from a tomb, the thief tells him he sold it to an Egyptologist. The Egyptologist is dying and has his trusted servant bandage it in the palm of his hand. The gem is stolen and the man emerges from the dead when the moon is full.
The son of a man wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, sets out to be criminal. He starts a street gang and has a mysterious person bankrolling their activities. He is in actuality, the son of the D.A. that prosecuted the gang leader's father.
When a valuable pearl, with a fearsome reputation, is stolen, Sherlock Holmes is called in to track it down and find out why it is linked to a seriies of murders.