Rome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic.

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.

In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.

A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.