A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.