从小,方托马斯(让•马莱 Jean Marais 饰)就爱搞恶作剧。不过,死对头瑞夫警长(路易•德•菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰)一直希望抓他归案。为了给后者一个下马威,方托马斯绑架了科学家马尔尚。记者方尔多和未婚妻艾莱娜报道了此事。罗马科学大会即将召开,为了防止方托马斯前来捣乱,瑞夫警长率领手下开始了声势浩大的搜捕行动。在列车上,方托马斯依靠出众的易容术,不但躲过了这些追查自己的耳目,而且还戏弄了瑞夫警长。科学大会如期召开,记者方多尔认为方托马斯这次前来是为勒菲夫教授而来,因为后者跟马尔尚可以共同完成秘密武器的研制,于是方多尔也扮作勒菲夫,引诱方托马斯上钩,但没成想,他们都中了方托马斯的计中计……本片根据法国作家皮埃尔•苏维德和马塞尔•阿兰的小说改编,为方托马斯“三部曲”中的第二部。本片是喜剧大师路易•德•菲耐斯继《虎口脱险》的又一力作。
Sicily 1812: the first liberal constitution shall put an end to the privileges of the feudal lords. Luca Corbara, sent by the Minister of Finance to control the landed properties, begins to suspect that the current Carini feud is made up of lands usurped more than two centuries before by the lover of the killed Baroness.
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
California, 1847. The territory is about to be incorporated into the United States. Parker, the new governor, is a cruel man who believes that the time has come to get rich regardless of the means, but he will soon find a mysterious opponent driven to end his tyranny.