Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

A down on his luck saxophonist agrees to help rob the home of a rich widow, then he unexpectedly falls for the woman.