Quando un'esplosione in un pozzo petrolifero minaccia centinaia di vite, una task force è chiamata a compiere una letale traversata del deserto con un carico di nitroglicerina.
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
In una zona desertica del Guatemala prende fuoco un pozzo petrolifero. Quattro disperati vengono ingaggiati per raggiungere la zona con due camion carichi di nitroglicerina per far saltare il pozzo. La missione è pericolosissima, ma i quattro - un corso, un muratore toscano, un tedesco e un avventuriero parigino - non hanno nulla da perdere.
Rifugiatisi in uno scassato paese sudamericano, un bancarottiere parigino, un rapinatore di New York, un terrorista arabo e un aguzzino nazista cercano disperatamente di tirare a campare. In cambio di una bella somma accettano un incarico pazzesco: trasportare con due camion un carico di esplosivo su una pista di duecento miglia nella giungla.
El Grinta è un anziano commissario distrettuale che il giudice Parker vorrebbe mandare in pensione per i suoi metodi troppo sbrigativi. L'ultima missione consiste nel recuperare un carro carico di esplosivo rubato da una banda di criminali. Con El Grinta ci sono Eula, figlia di un predicatore, e un giovane indiano, Billy.
The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.
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.
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.
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.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.