Hollywood diva Lydia Holmes is blackmailed by a gangster friend from her past. Dan Blakely demands to co-star in her pictures. The movie turns out to be a desaster because of Blakely. Lydia stabs the ham actor to death and drops his body in the ocean. When filming the next movie on Malibu beach, Lydia's boat capzises and the actress drowns, being weighed down by the corpse of her victim.; Mountaineer Jack Victor lets his nagging wife Carol drop to her death while climbing Destiny peak. When he makes the tour again with his new love Lynn, Victor perishes in the same spot Carol died.; Dr. Henry Faber sees to the fact that his patients get addicted to morphine - so he can sell them the drug. When Faber is involved in a train wreck and lies dying, he can't be helped because the morphine supply has been used up by his patients.; Two murderers try to shake the police by mingling with the audience of a carnival. They manage to escape by kidnapping the fortune teller Alia. Before he's killed, he predicts death by fire for the gangsters. The first one burns to death in bed while smoking, the second one is run over by a fire truck.