Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.
Bessie Mulcahy wants to spend her husband's gift of $1,000,000. to get a rich society husband for their eligible daughter.
When Emily Short receives the million dollar cheque she flies over to Paris. Oh the flight she meets Mark Ryan. Falling head over heels for Mark she doesn't realize that he is smuggling diamonds.
Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.
A man receives the million-dollar check returns to a small village in France to repay the kindness that the villagers showed him during the war.
Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.
Hamburger waitress Virginia Lennart receives the million and takes her best friend Emmy and they go through Europe looking for romance and find it in a Palazzo in Italy with a certain count.
A no-good punk gets a chance to make something of his life and ends up endangering his girl, via ""The Wild One"" rip-off street race.
A young lawyer becomes politically active and runs against the political crooks who try to destroy his character.
Butler Waldo Francis Turner receives the million dollars and helps out his employer and his son unaware that everyone thinks he is in love with Wainwright's daughter.
After serving time in prison for embezzlement and receiving the million dollars, Jay Powers sets out to prove his innocence.
Harvey Borden the savior of the underdogs comes to the aide of an orphan against his wife's wishes.
Betty moves to Miami to find love and excitement instead she finds a switchboard operator job and snobs.
Widow Nancy Wellington who has made due after her husband's death longs for romance from a man from her past. Her daughter feels her mother has sacrificed enough for her and runs away.
Michael Anthony can't believe that a hermit could be the correct recipient of the check.
Charles Wyatt uses his money to search for his son, reported missing during the War.
Deep sea diver and adventurer Jim Driskill finds more than he was looking for.
Professor Adams has his hands full when he falls for one of his students and sets his friend out to woo her.
An ex-con goes after the judge who sentenced him and his target is the Judge's family.
Jimmy Reilly uses his check to look for an Italian girl he met during the War.
Dr. Alan March lets down a very good friend who dies on the operating table, holding himself responsible he quits his practice and searches for an old love.
A waitress in love with a philandering Airline pilot finds true love with his brother.
Widow Maggie Sheeler is perplexed by her son who won't accept her new boyfriend.
Actress Carol Wesley falls in love with a producer.
Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.
Ted McAllister, a parole officer for juvenile deliquents, helps them take a trip around the world - against his wife's wishes to just let them rot in jail.
Hotel desk clerk Bob Fielding gets into a poker game and his so-called friends take advantage of him after they learn he has money to burn.
After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.
Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.
Childhood sweethearts meet up later in life by accident and fall in love all over again.
Ellen Curry is grief stricken when she loses her husband and terrified when he returns.
Arthur Franz stars as Frank Harrigan, a cynical businessman who tosses away a million dollar check when he thinks his friends are trying to make a fool of him.
Hopper, a young insurance accountant, learns that a client is guilty of fraud. Pete refuses a bribe and intends to divulge his findings to the police. When the check for a million dollars is presented to him, Pete thinks the bribe offer has been renewed.
Eric Lodek, a man devoted to helping others, receives the million-dollar check shortly before he suffers a fatal heart attack. Nick Slade, an escaped convict, comes across Lodek's body and decides to impersonate him.
William Courtney is unable to pay the back taxes on an old castle he bought, until his check arrives.
Terrence Costigan receives someone else's check and tries to find the real recipient.
Irene Marshall refuses to believe that her husband committed suicide.
Julia Conrad and Gilbert Patterson each believe the other is wealthy.