Sam stands to lose the bar to an old friend because of a bet that he would marry Jacqueline Bissett before a certain date.
An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder like a robbery gone awry.
A runaway dog unites a boy in an orphanage with its human family.
The orphan boy has formed an attachment to the dog, although he is going away to living with a new foster family.