William Lundigan

A serviceman thinks he is returning home for a blissful reunion with his wife. Instead he finds that she has bought a run-down apartment building, and along with it, a long list of expensive repairs and crazy tenants.

While urging another man to keep his cash in circulation to avoid a depression, an old Vermonter hoards his fortune.

Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to pass for white. Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi.

A hard-partying fashion editor headed for a nervous breakdown gets a new identity but ends up a murder suspect when her past returns to haunt her.

In 1854, graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.