Leaving Metropolis

If all comedy is watching someone else's pain, then watching Jim McManus is a riot. Jim's life is an assortment of modern complications: a wife who tries to understand him, two children who don't want to understand him, a boss who can't understand him and a best friend who thinks he understands him all too well. On the weekends, Jim dons the uniform of a Civil War Union captain and loses himself and his problems in the past. But what happens when he's caught between the present he can't live with and the past he can't live without?

After America has joined the World War I, young William Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the only supporter of his family and is employed by his sister's boss.

After the US takes a French village which Germans occupied in late WWI,two German soldiers both in love with the same French girl disguise as Yanks and try to convince the gullible, cowardly new occupiers that Germans are returning .

Returning from France after the war, John Tabor informs Palma May of her brother's death and offers the penniless girl his help, but she refuses it, preferring to work as a cabaret dancer. Later, John and Palma meet again, marry, and go west to manage a lumber camp, as instructed by John's wealthy father, Jarvis Tabor. Displeased by John's choice of wife, the elder Tabor tests the couple with difficult living conditions, which eventually discourage Palma, and she accepts the party invitation of Keith Merwyn, manager of the cabaret where she starred. Meanwhile, Merwyn effects a disturbance among the lumbermen, endangering John. Palma returns home just as Jarvis Tabor comes to John's rescue. Reconciliation and paternal blessings follow.

Ryhmy and Romppainen run into an international criminal gang that has stolen documents while on holiday from the war.

A group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus of three intertwined stories.