Whistling in the Dark

Movie is narrated through three different tracks. The romance between two students forms the first track, story of a villain forms the second track and third track played by two friends. Confluence of these three tracks completes the plot.

Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Eva a beautiful Russian woman in her late 20's. She watched her mother die as a result of the policies of a pharmaceutical mogul refusing to ship his medicine to Russia based on the bottom line. Eva devises a plan to exact revenge on Stan McFadden of McFadden Industries. Stan is in bad health and completely dependent on the medicine that he stopped exporting to Eva's mother. He is a prisoner in his own mansion, living as an agoraphobic hoarder. Eva set her plans in motion, immediately upon arriving as Stan's Russian mail order bride. Their relationship is volatile and intense, with the last words Stan will ever hear coming from Eva as he is dyeing..'You took pills from my mother...I take pills from you.'

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.