A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.