Bouleversé par le suicide d'un désespéré se jetant sous les rails du train qu'il conduit, Andrea ne voit pas le disque rouge indiquant l'arrêt immédiat. Il évite de justesse, la catastrophe. Un médecin lui recommande de cesser de boire. Il est alors muté au transport des marchandises. Il voit ainsi son salaire diminuer.
Film en trois épisodes, où Ford retrouve son Irlande natale, à travers des histoires très proches de ses attaches, et qui utilise Tyrone Power comme narrateur.
Mr. Tucker (Platt), proprietor of a Los Angeles coffee house, hires three down-on-their-luck patrons - out-of-work actor John Mapes (Palmer); struggling writer Ray Miller (Lupton); and George Leland (Sullivan), the wayward son of a movie star - to participate in an armored car robbery to take place during a four-hour stopover in Chicago during the trio's train trip from Los Angeles to New York. Tucker and his henchman Sidney (Glass) fly ahead to set up the robbery, which goes off without a hitch. However, once back on the train, Leland's greed gets the better of him, but Tucker double crosses the trio, eliminating Leland and Miller, leaving Mapes as the only one left to stop Tucker from getting away with murder - along with the entire haul.
Former OSS officer Alan Holiday (Leslie Nielsen) is visited by Catherine Carrel (Aliza Gur) on New Year's Eve, Carrel says she's a close friend of Jules Lemoine (Hugh Latimer) also a former OSS officer who served with Holiday during the war.
Cinq hommes prennent place dans le compartiment d'un train à Londres à destination de Bradley, et sont rejoints par un sixième, le mystérieux Docteur Sandor Schreck. Pendant le voyage celui-ci dévoile ses tarots et révèle son destin à chacun des voyageurs. Le film se compose donc de cinq sketchs.
"Alphonse" Askett (Frankie Howerd) is a hairdresser who is also the operational leader of a gang of crooks who are led behind the scenes by an invisible mastermind (voiced by Stratford Johns). He gives instructions to Askett about the robbery, Operation Windfall, using a variety of James Bond-like communications devices—including a converted showerhead.