Melanie, jeune femme quelque peu superficielle, rencontre chez un marchand d'oiseaux un brillant et séduisant avocat qui recherche des inséparables. Par jeu, Melanie achète les oiseaux et les apporte à Bodega Bay. Dès son arrivée, elle est blessée au front par une mouette...
En cherchant à sauver des flammes un inconnu, Jack, sapeur pompier expérimenté, fait une chute de plusieurs mètres et se retrouve, seul, au 10ème étage d'un entrepôt vétuste qui menace à tout moment de s'effondrer sur lui. Piégé par le feu, aveuglé par une épaisse et âcre fumée noire, le corps recouvert de lourds débris, Jack ne peut compter que sur son ami et mentor, le chef Mike Kennedy qui coordonne les secours au dehors. À bout de forces, Jack se remémore ses dix années de carrière...
Un jeune professeur est victime d'une méchante plaisanterie. Lorsqu'elle entre dans la classe, tous ses élèves sont nus, debout à côté de leur banc. les vêtements son en tas sur l'estrade.
Un frère et une sœur subissent une nuit de blagues effrayantes lors de leur séjour dans un motel isolé.
The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.
A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?
Lyon, Monplaisir : une bonne d’enfants se promène avec un enfant à la main en lisant un roman. Elle ne s’aperçoit pas que l’enfant la quitte pour aller jouer et elle laisse pendre sa main comme si elle le tenait encore. Un cuirassier lui prend doucement la main et marche aux côtés de la bonne, qui croit toujours conduire l’enfant et qui manifeste son mécontentement quand elle s’aperçoit de la farce.
Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain, passengers and his future father-in-law. When they arrive in the harbor, the captain and his father-in-law decide to revenge and the captain asks his men to retain Bob at the customs for hours. Then he heads to the office of his father-in-law where his girlfriend is waiting for him. But her father is still upset with Bob. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with his arms around two women dressed in long skirts and jackets, gloves, and fancy hats. The trio laugh and stumble on the platform as if having a hilarious time, getting the attention of the policeman who attempts to stop their bawdy behavior.
A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow, so that he can play a practical joke on a drunken acquaintance when he passes by. The boy then hides and waits for him, but things do not turn out quite as he planned.
It's based on a not-so-innocent practical joke. Two men and two women are chatting in a evening indoor setting, and although there are no intertitles in the film, one could suppose that the topic of the conversation is “the night”, or “fear”, as the film’s title suggests.
A film version of the classic Allen Funt TV series Candid Camera. The central theme is a series of comedic set-ups revolving around marriage. The situations include an allegedly unfaithful wife, an automated "marriage machine," a swinging marriage ceremony, and several other practical jokes in the Candid Camera fashion.