故事发生在1872年的伦敦，一间俱乐部中，一位名叫福格（大卫·尼文 David Niven 饰）的绅士打了一个没有人认为他能够获胜的赌，那就是在八十天内环游世界。之后，福格便带着随从巴斯帕图（莫莱诺·马里奥 Mario Moreno 饰）匆匆的上路了。
他们首先来到了法国，然后途径西班牙，在欣赏了一场精彩的斗牛之后，两人辗转前往瑞士，而此时，尚不知情的两人却遭到了伦敦警方的怀疑，怀疑他们是一宗银行抢劫案的嫌犯。在印度，福格救下了出逃的公主奥达（雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰），后者亦加入了他们的旅程之中。之后，三人横渡大西洋，轰轰烈烈的照着目的地赶去。福格能否在规定的时间内完成他的承诺呢？

本片拍摄于1953年，根据马克·吐温的小说《一张百万英镑的钞票》改编。
富豪之家的两兄弟，从银行取出面额为一百万英镑的钞票，想以此验证一个穷人拿到这张巨额钞票的结局。哥哥认为这张钞票对一个穷人毫无价值，最终他还是会穷困潦倒；而弟弟则认为他会因为这张钞票摆脱困境过上富足的生活。为了证明各自的理论的正确的，兄弟两人为此打起了赌。他们将这张钞票留给穷困潦倒的美国小伙子亨利·亚当斯（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）后出国旅行了，留下对未来一片迷茫的亨利。
人们对这位突然暴富的罕见富翁，竟拼命地拉拢他，从免费吃饭，买衣服，到免费住宿，一个个像乞丐一样讨好他，并不断提高他的社会地位。不仅如此，这位幸运的小伙子还取到了一位好妻子和三万英镑的银行利息，从此以后过着非常幸福的生活。

To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.

在英国殖民统治时期的加勒比海中有个虚幻的小岛。岛上有名有远大政治抱负的年轻英俊黑人男子爱上了来此地旅游的美丽白人女子，两人的亲昵被旁人窃窃私语，随着绯闻越穿越大，在那个封闭的年代，不同种族之间的爱情绝不被世人接受，黑白配的恋情最终走向崩裂，他们的爱情被遗忘在这个偏僻的不为人知的小岛上，随风吟诵。

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.