En 1866, pendant le Risorgimento, une compagnie de tirailleurs est envoyée lutter contre le banditisme en Calabre. Son commandant, le lieutenant Giorgio Biserta, qui est hébergé pour la nuit dans le château des comtes di Monserrato, est invité par une femme âgée à passer quelques heures avec une dame, à condition de ne pas la regarder ou de savoir qui elle est. Quelques années plus tard, il quitte l’armée et retourne en Calabre pour travailler comme régisseur dans l’espoir de découvrir la femme inconnue de cette nuit d'amour…
Le film raconte une histoire d'amitié entre deux boxeurs, Mario (Claudio Villa) et Fabrizio (Walter Santesso), perturbée par leur attirance pour la même jeune fille, Anna Maria (Liliana Bonfatti).
King Solomon (Gino Cervi) sends his son, Prince Rehoboam (Gino Leurini) on a spy mission to Sheba where he falls in love with the beautiful Queen (Leonora Ruffo). He tries to prevent a war between their two countries but After the Queen finds out her lover is a spy, she leads her army in an assault against Jerusalem. The siege is a failure and ends with the Queen and Prince reuniting with the blessing of both King Solomon and Sheba's advisors.
Oreste, un employé ministériel, perd à cause d'une spéculation hasardeuse une forte somme d'argent pour laquelle ses trois filles avaient cotisé pour la maison de campagne de la famille. Mal conseillé par son ami Giacomino, un escroc magouilleur qui vend des ustensiles de cuisine sur un stand en voyageant avec le jeune Salvatore, il se met à accorder des licences d'exportation en échange de pots-de-vin. Avec ces sous, il envoie sa femme et ses trois fille à Capri.
Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will. The count's younger daughter hears the argument which breaks out between the lovers. The false baron tries to kill her but she escapes, racing off to the river. There she is saved by a patriot, who takes her to the devil's castle, where conspirators are meeting. On hearing the news, the spy contacts the police, who arrest the girl's fiancé, a young doctor, one of the leading patriots. Sentenced to death, he is about to be hanged but is saved at the last minute by Garibaldi's cavalry. After dealing with the spy, the young patriot joins his beloved fiancée.
Industrialist George (Alexander Knox) and his wife Irene (Bergman) are a wealthy couple living in post-war Rome with their son Michele (Sandro Franchina), and they host so many parties that their son feels neglected. During a dinner party, Michele constantly tries to get his mother's attention, but Irene is more interested in being a good hostess to her guests than an attentive mother, and as a result Michele attempts suicide by falling several stories down a stairwell, fracturing his hip.