Eric Hartman, un antiquaire, s'offre les services d'un certain Joe Victor, un voyou, afin que celui-ci kidnappe le Docteur Carl Macklin, un grand savant. Afin d'arriver à ses fins, Joe utilise les charmes de son ancienne maîtresse Joyce, mais c'était sans compter sur la vigilence de l'inspecteur Leduc.
After a year of marriage, Edward "Teddy" Bare (Dirk Bogarde) kills his wealthy older wife, Monica (Mona Washbourne), after she asks her lawyer, Phillip Mortimer (Robert Flemyng), to change her will. He stages it to look as if she was accidentally asphyxiated while drunkenly trying to light a gas heater.
Une petite ville des États-Unis, Indianapolis, dans les années 1950 : Glenn Griffin, dangereux prisonnier évadé, à la recherche d'une voiture, investit avec ses complices la maison de la famille Hilliard, retenue en otage pour faciliter leur fuite du pays. Le père, Daniel, tente tout son possible pour sauver ses proches ; la confrontation violente avec Griffin est inévitable, compliquée par l'intervention de la police...
Tim is a proofreader at a newspaper in Oslo by day, and a pyromaniac at night. Only one other knows about Tim's dark side: his childhood friend and editor of the newspaper. The two have kept the secret for years until the secretary, Margrethe, finds out. Eager to help she becomes Tim's confidant.
A man named Héctor Rossi travels to La Rioja and fakes involvement in a bus accident while following a school-teacher, Leonor. The teacher takes the man in and lets him stay and recover from his injuries at her house for a while, but after two weeks they fall in love and marry. What Leonor does not know is that Rossi is the boyfriend of Celina Reyes, who in turn is secretary to Leonor's rich, estranged uncle, Don Roque Fontán. When Don Roque winds up dead in an "accident" at work (devised by Rossi, Reyes and a foreign hitman), Leonor and Héctor inherit his manor at Buenos Aires and his fortune.
Le Procureur Victor Scott a jadis fait condamner un innocent. Depuis, il est devenu avocat et noie ses remords dans l'alcool. Il se met au service d'un gangster et paiera de sa vie pour le faire condamner, sauvant du même coup une innocente.
Le 20 Juillet 1944, le colonel Baron Schenk von Stauffenberg prépare un attentat pour tuer Hitler, en utilisant une bombe dans son "Grand Quartier Général" dans l'est de la Prusse...
Phil Regal, a tough racketeer, pulls strings to get his sister Rosalie's punk boyfriend, Nicky, out of a death penalty for a murder he did in fact commit, so that they can get married. Later, when he learns that Nicky is cheating on Rosalie, he arranges for Nicky to be framed for a murder he didn't commit.
A senior Royal Air Force officer (Michael Redgrave) is at a dinner party in Hong Kong at which one of those present, (Michael Hordern), talks about a dream he had in which the Air Force Officer and a group of 12 companions are flying from Bangkok in a Dakota which crashes on a rocky shore. The Air Marshal is due to fly to Tokyo the following day, but is not disturbed because many of the details differ from his planned voyage, including using a different kind of aircraft, a Consolidated Liberator.
Renowned scientist Professor Henrik (Hugo Schuster) returns to England from a working trip overseas and is met by his glamorous secretary Joan (Hylton). American Ted O'Hara (Taylor) has come in on the same flight and in the bustle of the airport he and Henrik mistakenly pick up each other's identical briefcases, and O'Hara innocently departs with a briefcase containing a top-secret formula for a revolutionary new type of jet fuel.
Une femme à la recherche de son mari disparu en Chine, se rend à Hong-Kong pour obtenir davantage d'informations. De multiples aventures débutent alors.