Treasury agents enlist a convict to infiltrate a drug ring in 1940s San Francisco, following a deadly trail that leads to a shady Canadian trading company.
When Abbott and Costello, two city booksellers, scheme their way into an African expedition by posing as seasoned safari hunters to get a piece of a hidden diamond mine, they encounter an angry lion, a tribe of hungry cannibals, and more.
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.