To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.