Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.