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Mr. Croquignolle is afflicted with a terrible hardship, his... wife. Gruff and stingy, she keeps spoiling his life. One day, a band of gangsters who do not know what they are doing take it into their heads to kidnap her in the hope of claiming a heavy ransom. Poor devils, the moment Mrs Croquignolle becomes their hostage life becomes hell for them! To such an extent that they beg the husband to take back his shrewish other half. For a price of course!

Maurice Farinet, a young Swiss peasant, has found a gold deposit in the mountains and starts producing counterfeit money. He is arrested but manages to escape. The village people are on his side and shelter him. Arrested a second time, he runs away once again and is hidden and protected by Joséphine, the waitress of the inn, who is in love with him. But Farinet puts the mayor in an awkward situation. Should he bring him to justice or not?

Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.

After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.

An orphan girl experiences hard times on the farm where she is staying and things get even worse for her when she tries to extricate herself.

A beautician inherits a racing stable and also a huge fortune which she will only be able to touch in 5 years if she maintains the horses on the property.