福克纳上校（理查德·伯顿 Richard Burton 饰）受雇于著名银行家爱德华爵士（斯图尔特·格兰杰 Stewart Granger 饰），要去解救非洲自由斗士林班尼（Winston Ntshona 饰），然而，私下里，爱德华爵士和独裁者切恩有一个秘密的交易，要以林班尼来交换非洲某国的铜矿开采权。　　被蒙在鼓里的福克纳上校召集了昔日战友，组建了一支战斗力极强的敢死队，命名为野鹅敢死队，在经过了一系列紧张的训练后，一行人踌躇满志地踏上了他们的“战场”。在成功解救林班尼，准备撤离之时，福克纳上校却发现他们被本来该来接应的运输机放了鸽子。聪明的福克纳上校很快就明白了究竟发生了什么，现在最重要的，就是生存下去。

克丽奥佩拉，一个躲在狮身人面像阴影下的受惊的少女，遇到了从罗马来的凯撒，宣告了埃及的新纪元的到来，也预示了埃及女王的诞生。这时的克丽奥佩拉还是个天真可爱少女，美貌诱人却有着易怒多变的性格，梦想着有强壮臂膀的英俊男人保护，登上女王的宝座；萧伯纳从另一个非常不同的角度出发，使笔下的凯撒不再是传说中的强势凶暴的好战者，而是贤明、仁慈、诙谐、慷慨的君主，厌倦了血腥和背叛，渴望欢快的人生。

To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.