The first U.S. mission to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily, unknowingly bringing back a mysterious reptilian creature that rapidly grows to a monstrous size.
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by a Quaker girl and finds himself having to choose between his world and hers.