Silvio Minciotti

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess.