A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.