The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkle) are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.

Charles Laughton plays Kidd, a merchant captain who cons the King of England into allowing him to take to the sea to recover a lost treasure and escort a ship back to London. An old fellow conspirator who he thought dead (John Carradine) and a mysterious young man (Randolph Scott) manage to get on board and cause problems for Kidd.

Sword and sandal film in which Atlas arrives in the city to fight a monstrous one-eyed beast who has been terrorizing the population.