Para salvar a cientos de personas de la explosión de un pozo petrolífero, un equipo de expertos emprende una peligrosa travesía por el desierto con una carga de nitroglicerina.
Cuatro hombres de diferente nacionalidad, escondidos de su pasado en una remota ciudad sudamericana, se unen para transportar una peligrosa carga de dinamita a través de la selva. Remake de "El salario del miedo", de Clouzot (1953).
La tensión entre cuatro trabajadores de una compañía petrolífera estallará durante un peligroso viaje durante el cual transportan nitroglicerina.
Western crepuscular en el que Rooster Cogburn, un sheriff bebedor y en decadencia (Wayne), es despojado de su placa por el juez federal Parker, que lo acusa de exceso de celo en la búsqueda y captura de forajidos. Pero, inmediatamente después, el propio Parker le confía una nueva misión: capturar a la banda de Hawk, que ha robado nitroglicerina al ejército. Por el camino, Rooster se encuentra con una rígida y adusta misionera (K Hepburn), cuyo padre ha sido asesinado por Hawk. Juntos deciden capturar a los delincuentes.
Historia sobre los mayores forajidos de América: los Newton Boys, que robaron alrededor de ochenta bancos desde Texas hasta Canadá. Su último plan consistió en asaltar un tren con una ingente cantidad de dinero de la Reserva Federal; lo malo es que la policía estaba al acecho.
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go to work hauling nitro. "Buzz" makes a play for Connie Baker (Jean Parker), Mike's secretary and girlfriend, and also for Doris Lynch (Barbara Lynn), fiancée of Connie's younger brother, Jimmy ('Rand Brooks'), and gets Jimmy to replace him on a dangerous nitro haul and Jimmy, of course, has an accident and gets killed. But "Buzz" finds a way to redeem himself. The hard way.
The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.
Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.
Lazy Dodsworth the Cat wants to catch a woodpecker for his breakfast. The woodpecker has built its home inside the upper trunk of a very tall tree, and Dodsworth puts on a professor's cap, pretending to be a passive teacher of bird-catching and thereby deceive an eager-to-learn kitten into doing the perilous ascending of the tree to try to catch the woodpecker.
Sylvester Cat stows away aboard a seagoing passenger liner to try and catch Tweety Bird, who is guarded by his mistress, Granny. Sylvester becomes seasick and runs to the sickbay for a remedy. Tweety mixes nitro into the medicine before Sylvester drinks it. When Granny hits Sylvester with her broom, he is blown sky-high.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.