1935. Shanghai. El intrépido arqueólogo Indiana Jones, tras meterse en jaleos en un local nocturno, consigue escapar junto a una bella cantante y su joven acompañante. Tras un accidentado vuelo, los tres acaban en la India, donde intentarán ayudar a los habitantes de un pequeño poblado, cuyos niños han sido raptados.
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...