A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.