A scientist is kidnapped and his experimental death ray falls into the wrong hands. The scientist enlists the help of his brother-in-law, Chandu the magician, to find the gun and save humanity.
The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one Dante the Magician uses in his act, his stage show increases in popularity.