When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he is.
Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his King and takes the throne for himself.
An engineer is abducted from his Greenwich Village apartment by gangsters who believe he knows the location of a uranium mine. A young artist becomes involved with finding the man and unraveling the identity of the gang's members.