At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Mollenard, capitaine au long cours, trafiquant d'armes, revient à Dunkerque après avoir perdu son navire. Celui-ci a été saboté par Bonnerot, un autre trafiquant qui a voulu se venger. Aigri et malade, déchu physiquement et moralement, Mollenard subit la froide cruauté de sa femme sans pouvoir réagir...
Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.
A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.