Paul Schwed

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

Deux escrocs parviennent à arrêter un train de nuit pour des fins néfastes et à usurper l'identité de Sherlock Holmes et du Docteur Watson. Mais avec l'aide de deux jeunes filles britanniques, ils se rachètent une conduite en décidant d'enquêter sur la disparition de timbres d'une valeur inestimable.

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.

La seconde guerre mondiale touche à sa fin. L'Allemagne Nazie meurt mais ne se rend pas. L'armée américaine qui manque cruellement d'informations sur les opérations allemandes décide d'envoyer deux prisonniers de guerre allemands de l'autre coté du Rhin dans l'espoir de glaner quelques précisions sur ce qui se prépare. Seul problème: La gestapo, dont le réseau visant à démasquer et éliminer les espions ou les déserteurs est terriblement efficace...