„Makenos auksas“ perkelia į 1872-ųjų Arizoną. Šerifas Makena (Gregory Peck) patenka į apačių vado pasalą. Prieš mirtį indėnas patiki Makenai seną žemėlapį, kuriame nurodyta Auksinė lyguma – čia paslėptas legendinis apačių lobis. Makena sunaikina žemėlapį, bet netrukus šerifą pagrobia banditas Koloradas (Omar Sharif), kuris nužudys teisėjo dukterį, jei Makena nenuves jo į Auksinę lygumą. Prie banditų prisideda vis nauji lobių ieškotojai, bet ne visiems pavyks pasiekti tikslą.

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.