The Talking Magpies, Heckel and Jeckel, are working as professional house-wreckers, and they run up against an escapee, wanted-criminal bulldog who is hiding out in a house they have been hired to demolish. Before the confusion and destruction that follows his discovery, the bulldog wishes he had stayed in jail.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Canada, rich in uranium, is harnessing atomic science for peacetime living. This film provides a progress report on nuclear research conducted at the atomic energy plant at Chalk River, Ontario, and shows some of the constructive applications of atomic energy carried out in hospitals (including Canada's celebrated "cobalt bomb"), in agricultural experimental stations and in industry.
Connie is confused about what she what to do when she gets home but meets a older women who mentions Westmont College and the two make arrangements to meet again so she can learn more about the college.
The charming Mr. Sampat weaves his way into theatrical company with his moneymaking schemes, only to cause the everyone involved to go bankrupt, including Malini, the young actress who has fallen in love with him.
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.