1945, em um velho navio de carga em algum lugar nos confins do oceano Pacífico: o capitão Morton se esforça para se tornar comandante, e por isso exige a máxima qualidade do trabalho de sua tripulação, sem conceder-lhes liberdade ou favores - ignorando que estão a milhares de quilômetros de distância Da frente de Batalha. Em uma palavra: ele enlouquece sua tripulação. Eles estão quase revoltados, mas ninguém ousa dar o primeiro passo. Até que o alferes Pulver faz uma brincadeira com o capitão, o que desencadeia consequências fatais.
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble. However, when he starts to see what kind of place his nice little neighborhood bar is turning into, and when one of the mob's goons tries to rape his daughter, he decides to fight them.
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
