When a writer visits a married woman, he sets off a chain of blackmail and murder. An advertising exec is kidnapped by a group of spies. A Texan marries a strong beautiful girl and their adjustments to life are interwoven with problems. A star finds his career jeopardized when he and his shrill-voiced leading lady must appear in a talkie. Three students, who lead idyllic lives, explode with a violence and sexuality that their parents cannot understand. A veteran stops at nothing to find the men who murdered his family. When the eldest of seven brothers announces his marriage plans, the others kidnap six beautiful women. A neurotic belle struggles to hold on to her gentility against the badgering of her brother-in-law. A struggling artist is torn between a wealthy woman and a dancer. A wealthy patriarch informs his children that he is dying, and secrets surface that threaten to rip the family apart.