In New York City, German agents arrange for Jane Graystone (Nancy Coleman) to take a taxi driven by one of their own men. The abduction goes awry when the taxi collides with another vehicle. Both driver and passenger are taken to the hospital in an ambulance attended by intern Dr. Mike Lewis (John Garfield). On the way, Jane regains consciousness and claims to have amnesia; she cannot remember who she is. The driver reports this to his superiors. Mike is excited, as this is his area of study, and persuades Dr. Murdoch (Roland Drew) to let him take the case.
When Tom King's Texas Ranger father is shot dead by Nazi saboteurs, he leaves college and joins the Texas Rangers himself. Shortly he is given the mission of avenging his father's death and defeating the foreign agents.
Returning to New York from Europe, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) tries unsuccessfully to strike up a conversation with attractive fellow ocean liner passenger Marilyn Howard (Constance Worth). He later rescues her when she is accosted by a man. However, when he tries to follow her, he runs into his friendly nemesis, police Inspector Faraday (Richard Lane), who wants to take him in on suspicion of stealing some pearls. Knowing that Blackie's word is good (and that handcuffs are useless against him), Faraday merely confiscates his Landing Card.
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive.
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is travelling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. As he cannot be fired during wartime and wanting to avoid all women, he is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. Before taking a boat from the mainland during the four hours of daylight that are available for the time of year, the locals warn him he will go mad from isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month as others have.
Commander Don Winslow is returned to the Office of Naval Intelligence from his command of his cruiser to investigate strange events on the Pacific island of Tangita, noticeably a ship being torpedoed. He discovers that there is a ring of saboteurs and enemy agents who are trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort. Though the US Navy is preparing to build a naval base on Tangita, an unknown foreign power secretly has a subterranean submarine base beneath the island with the goal of preventing the American base from being completed'
Japanese saboteurs attack the US in preparation for an invasion during World War II. They are discovered by "Ace" Holden and The Dead End Kids, who do not trust the police enough to help the government. To overcome this, the "Junior G-Men" (the Little Tough Guys) are sent by the FBI to stop the spies.
Gangster Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) narrowly escapes death at the hands of an assassin hired by his ambitious right hand man, Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard); his decoy double Eddie is killed instead.
The U.S. has not yet entered World War II when kindly stamp dealer Otto Becker (Conrad Veidt) is unexpectedly visited by his twin brother, Baron Hugo von Detner (also played by Veidt), the new German consul to the U.S. and one of the leaders of a spy ring engaged in sabotage. The brothers have not seen each other in years, but now von Detner wants to use Becker's shop to transmit and receive secret messages. Becker refuses, until von Detner threatens to have him deported back to Germany as an illegal immigrant and reveals that Becker's assistant, Miss Harper (Dorothy Tree), is actually a German agent.
Dans cette autre histoire parallèle à celle de Max la Menace, Bruce et Lloyd, les deux experts en gadgets électroniques de l'agence CONTROL, ont mis au point une cape d'invisibilité qu'ils viennent d'améliorer. Mais lors d'une fête organisée dans les locaux de l'agence, leur invention est volée et ils découvrent qu'il s'agit de la jeune femme, Isabella, dont Lloyd est tombé sous son charme, qui se révèle être un agent du Maraguay, pays d'Amérique du Sud, dont El Presidente, dirige le pays d'une main de fer. Les deux hommes doivent le retrouver de leur propre chef, car les seuls agents non compromis, les agents 99 et 86 (Maxwell Smart), sont en mission en Russie… mais ils n'ont aucune expérience d'agent sur le terrain. De plus, la CIA convoite également cette cape d'invisibilité.
Moscou, au début des années 1980, en pleine guerre froide. Sergueï Grigoriev, colonel du KGB déçu du régime de son pays, décide de faire tomber le système. Il prend contact avec un jeune ingénieur français en poste à Moscou, Pierre Froment. Les informations extrêmement confidentielles qu'il lui remet ne tardent pas à intéresser les services secrets occidentaux. Le président français François Mitterrand est alerté et décide d'informer le président américain Ronald Reagan : un gigantesque réseau d'espionnage permet aux Soviétiques de tout connaître des recherches scientifiques, industrielles et militaires à l'Ouest. Les deux hommes d'État décident d'exploiter ces données ultra sensibles transmises par une mystérieuse source moscovite que les Français ont baptisée « Farewell ». Homme sans histoires, Pierre Froment se retrouve alors précipité au cœur de l'une des affaires d'espionnage les plus stupéfiantes du XX siècle. Une affaire qui le dépasse et qui menace bientôt sa vie et celle de sa famille.
British Captain Bill Hamilton meets and is attracted to American fashion designer Ann Morgan in Paris during the Phoney War stage of hostilities. He also makes the acquaintance of Sydney-Chronicle reporter Butch. Later, he is assigned by MI5 to investigate Ann. The fashion house where she works is a center of German fifth columnists, headed by Van Der Stuyl and Madame Florien. MI5 suspects Ann herself is a spy, but Bill is certain she is innocent. Her friend, Count Raul De La Vague, however, has been gulled by Van Der Stuyl and Madame Florien into believing that they are working for Franco-German peace and cooperation against communism. The count is told to donate an ambulance to the French cause. A German spy conceals a message inside the door.
Deux loosers rêvent de devenir auteurs de polars, notamment pour des feuilletons radiophoniques. Alors qu'ils essaient de vendre l'une de leurs créations à une station de radio, ils vont devoir se transformer en véritables détectives quand le propriétaire de la radio est retrouvé mort…