The journey of two groups of people lost in the middle of the jungle while searching for a plane that crashed with an important cargo of gold and documents. One of the groups is made up of soldiers and a woman looking for her boyfriend, a passenger on the plane and the only survivor of the catastrophe. The other expedition is made up of bandits and Soviet spies, willing to do anything to seize the cargo.
Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's films, dating back as far as the Mickey McGuire comedies.
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life.
On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter but her animals are wiped out by a fire.
Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.