A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town suspects a resurgence of vampirism. Suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats.

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.