一个在英国销售汽车的美国人接收到一个神秘的邀请，一位百万富翁请他参观他的房子，他与他的孪生兄弟一起生活。

故事发生在第一次世界大战时期的非洲。男主人公查尔斯·奥尔耐特是一名因失业而流落到非洲的矿山机械师，女主人公罗斯·塞耶是一位向非洲土人传道的教士。为了抵抗德国人，两人同乘一艘破旧的游艇－－“非洲皇后号”，沿河顺流而下。途中，这对个性迥然不同的中年男女不仅产生了真挚的爱情，而且还勇敢地击沉了一艘德国战舰……

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner (SST1). A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date. The evil Petersen has developed a number of robots (actually rather beautiirls with electronic brains) to help him sabotage the SST1 project by means of infrasound (extreme low frequency sound waves) which can be directed at people or objects with devastating results.

Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she's immediately attracted to 007's unwitting replacement.

平凡的小伙子乔伊（劳伦斯·哈维 Laurence Harvey 饰）爱上了含着金汤匙出生的千金大小姐苏珊（简·西蒙斯 Jean Simmons 饰），虽然这段感情遭到了女方家人的强烈反对，但两人最终还是排除了万难携手步入婚姻的殿堂。然而，婚后的生活却并不如乔伊想象中的那么幸福。乔伊进入了苏珊父亲经营的公司里上班，常常遭到上司和同僚的冷嘲热讽，工作的十分不愉快，另一方面，他和妻子的价值观相差巨大，两人常常爆发激烈的争吵。　　当乔伊发现妻子竟然令有情人后，他决定也自由的去寻找自己想要的生活。他带着对他有好感的姑娘诺拉（霍纳尔·布莱克曼 Honor Blackman 饰）私奔了。