Christmas Class Reunion

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Mike Ripportella, a construction foreman who can't be bribed, finds on his daughter's wedding day that he is a very much wanted man. His boss, Leonard Brandon, wants him to be the head salesman; a seductive blonde, Fay Kingman, wants him for a playmate; the police want him for murder, extortion and bigamy; and some very nasty gangsters want him as a corpse. His wife Mary is also a bit upset with him. And they all lay hands on him between dawn and dusk.

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. The will causes problems in two places; Racketeer Pinky Connors is mad as the money is his as Dinwiddle was really his absconding bookkeeper, and, in Elmville, Dinwiddle's two spinster sisters, Annabelle Dinwiddle and Henrietta Dinwiddle, learn they are getting $10,000 each. Pinkie's lawyer suggests he get power-of-attorney over Gloria's funds. Henrietta wants to contest the will, hires a local young law school graduate, Jimmy Abercrombie and the trio set off for New York. Jimmy obtains an injunction against Pinkie that also serves to shut off McLane's credit for "Lucky Legs." To open the show and provide employment for her roommates, "Calamity" Jane Edwards and Jewel Perkins, Gloria offers to settle for $25,000 with Henrietta, who refuses. Annebelle, who likes Gloria, arranges for Pinkie to kidnap her, the ransom being Henrietta's withdrawal of her half of the injunction. Pinkie's henchmen make a mistake and kidnap Annabelle instead.

Everything is good when you're making money but what happens when illegal gains turn into prison time? Follow an ex-felon as he fights temptation after temptation in an attempt to become successful in an environment set up for him to fail.

A professional gambler is caught cheating and sent to prison. Eventually paroled, he decides to make a fresh start and takes his niece, an aspiring singer, to Chicago. Once there, however, she gets mixed up with a mobster and winds up working at his nightclub--and her uncle, unable to resist the chance at some quick money, goes back to card cheating again..

Martin Beck has to search through the large company's director Palmgren's many enemies when the business man is shot in front of a dozen witnesses at a prestigious restaurant.