冷战期间，一对美国演员无意中卷入到了一场太空军备竞赛中，并受到恐怖组织的追杀，最后，在女情报人员黛安帮助下，潜入恐怖组织地下发射基地，阴差阳错，破坏了恐怖组织的阴谋。 Ralph Anderson returns to his remote California hometown for the first time in many years. Now a lawyer, he has been estranged from his father, Lloyd, and brother, Tippy, ever since being sent to reform school as a youth for stealing a car, taking the blame for his brother's crime.Lloyd is now sheriff and Tippy his deputy. Forced to represent a wanted criminal, Ralph asks the law to look the other way while a local airfield is used to enable the mobster, Massonetti, to flee the country. A disgusted Lloyd agrees to help, but Tippy decides to arrest Massonetti and cash in on a big reward.Tippy's beautiful wife Linda was once the love of Ralph's life and regrets his long absence. She is tired of Tippy's shiftless, drunken ways and Lloyd's domineering rule of the family.Massonetti arrives in town, backed by Davis, his top thug. Tippy and two deputies, Karger and Eddie, make an amateurish attempt to capture Massonetti, only to get Lloyd shot and killed while trying to stop them. Ralph manages to get Massonetti behind bars at the town jail.The mob cuts off phone communication and highway access to the town. Ralph suggests driving Massonetti to the authorities in Barstow in the mobster's own fast car. Noticing the tension between the brothers, Massonetti taunts them both and offers $25,000 to tempt Tippy into betraying Ralph and setting him free.On the road, deputy Eddie is ambushed and the brothers learn that Linda has been abducted. A deal is made to get her back, but Karger is killed and the car is disabled. Ralph manages to get the four of them to a gas station, where the owner is found shot. In a fight for the gun, Ralph is winged and Tippy seriously wounded.Borrowing a miner's jeep, Ralph drives Massonetti to a main highway, where two policemen take them into custody. They turn out to be impostors who drive Massonetti to an air strip where Davis is waiting with a plane. After they board, Ralph drives the car into the plane, overturning it. He drags Massonetti from the wreckage and holds him until real cops arrive. By the time he returns to the gas station, Linda is watching Tippy's lifeless body carried away. 残暴的拉雷（西塞尔·帕克 Cecil Parker 饰）屠杀了整个王室，自称为王。一个尚在襁褓之中的小婴儿逃过一劫，被代号黑狐（丹尼·凯耶 Danny Kaye 饰）的秘密英雄所救。在手下霍金斯（丹尼·凯耶 Danny Kaye 饰）和梅姬（格莱妮丝·约翰斯 Glynis Johns 饰）的帮助下，一行人带着皇族最后的正统血脉小王子踏上了逃亡的旅途。 与此同时，拉雷为了平定内乱，派出了美丽的关德林公主（安吉拉·兰斯伯瑞 Angela Lansbury 饰），想要利用她的美貌得到爵士格力斯的效忠。哪知道在阴差阳错之下，霍金斯竟然也爱上了关德林公主，于是他和格力斯之间开始了一场决斗。 一名精通腹语的木偶表演艺人，被国际间谍将机密蓝图悄悄藏于其木偶中，他因此而惹来无数麻烦。最后终于凭腹语脱困，并将歹徒一网打尽。 
