An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.

《本丢·彼拉多》根据圣经故事改编，本丢·彼拉多是罗马帝国犹太行省的执政官在位期间曾多次审问耶稣，原本不认为耶稣犯了什么罪，却在仇视耶稣的犹太宗教领袖的压力下，判处耶稣钉死在十字架上。在《圣经》不多的描述中，本丢·彼拉多只是一个迫于压力而且并不认为耶稣有罪的人。