A successful businessman is kidnapped by anti-capitalist Latvian revolutionaries who demands $10 million in ransom for his return. The victim is held at gunpoint but tries to manipulates his captors by turning them against each other to gain his freedom.

While traveling in Europe, Twain encounters a woman who implores the famous author to assist in obtaining the release of her husband from a mental institution. He was committed for claiming that he had been the sculpturer of an ancient and revered piece of art.

A woman comes to a psychiatrist complaining of unexplained anxiety and sickness. Under hypnosis, she reveals a concealed memory of a vicious and fatal tiger attack that took place more than a hundred years ago.

A bed-ridden woman lapses into a coma and has an out of body experience. She watches as her estranged daughter realizes that something is wrong with her mother and travels to be at her bedside.

A pilot flies to Samoa to find his old college flame who has quit writing to him. He finds out that she is a princess betrothed to another. He smuggles her out in his plane. When they encounter trouble, her mother and the island gods are not amused.

A scientist is convinced that he is an alien sent to Earth to observe its inhabitants. When he encounters a woman who claims to be his wife who last saw him two years ago, he begins to doubt his own identity.

A man tries to poison his mother to collect his inheritance, but her butler foils the crime without telling her of the attempt on her life. The doting mother worries about her son not knowing that he is trying to kill her. The butler and the son then each quietly contemplate getting rid of the other.

A waitress falls in love with an amnesia victim that wanders into her diner late in the day. She is sure that this is her last chance at love. Her brother is very suspicious and decides to investigate the man's background.

An old elevator attendant finds out that he is about to lose his life's love — his elevator he affectionately calls Nellie. He has a plan to keep her and to keep his job. The building's residents decide to help him.

A mine owner retires young and he and his wife move to a remote manor house in the country. After receiving a mysterious visitor, the normally docile husband develops a dual personality. His wife and attorney worry about him.