San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.

雄心勃勃的D.A. Victor Scott积极的起诉Ed Clary谋杀妇女。但是当Clary从“最后一里路”走向电椅的时候，Scott收到了证明被指控者无罪的证据。当他知道自己犯了个大错误的时候，他试图阻止死刑执行，但是一切都太晚了。由于这次严重的误判，Scott辞去了检察官的职务。进入私人活动后，他通过使他出名的同样的狡诈行为引起了暴徒首领Frank Garland的注意。这个匪徒成功的向Scott行贿使他成为他的谋杀讨论的成员，Scott在法庭的成功表演使他打赢了官司。但是不久Scott发现自己卷入了肮脏的匪徒政治。当他从前 在D.A.办公室的被保护人由于把暴徒Garland的事情告密，而被指控谋杀的时候情况变得无法容忍了。Victor能打败他暗恋的女人同时保住自己的命么？

保罗robaix是一个著名的导演，娶了露西戴尔，一个著名的电影明星。robaix想制作一部电影的经典游戏蝴蝶夫人，但他不想让他的妻子扮演主导角色，在他以前的照片。制片人山姆刘易斯和露西戴尔认为了得到她的照片毕竟方案。露西假扮艺妓，并取得领先的部分图片。当robaix发现他变得如此疯狂，他想离婚的露西…

美国西部「壞女人」的婚外情

All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a story about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed--all the boys in the War--were his sons, too.

尼克（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）是一个平平无奇的理发师，却对赌博这项危险的运动有着强烈的热情，好在尼克认识一个富翁朋友，这个朋友阔绰的为尼克筹得了一万块钱的巨额赌资，鼓励尼克向赌王辛迪加发起挑战。在此过程中，尼克邂逅了一位美丽的金发美人（伊沃琳·奈普 Evalyn Knapp 饰），从没见过如此尤物的尼克很快就乱了方寸坠入了情网，哪知道与此同时，他也落入了对手为他精心编织的陷阱之中。
结果显而易见，尼克将钱输了个精光，带着屈辱和悔恨回到了老家。虽然失去了金钱和尊严，但是尼克得到了丰富的经验，在朋友的帮助下，他重振旗鼓，再一次进城决定一雪前耻。

When a bellhop knocks out fighter Chuck McGraw, promoter Nick Donati realizes he's a potential champ. "Kid Galahad" justifies Nick's confidence, but Nick's mistress Fluff falls for him; in turn, the Kid falls for Nick's young sister. Now overprotective brother Nick turns against his new fighter, leading to a near- disastrous title fight and a murderous confrontation.

On release from Sing Sing, 'Pressure' Maxwell wants to go into legal business; his pal 'Jug' Martin would rather join fellow inmate Leo's bank robbery scheme. A compromise is reached when Pressure buys a luggage shop next to the bank in question. Pressure, Jug, and their friend Weepy prove the most incompetent burglars ever seen, but their biggest problem is keeping paying customers out of the store! Should they give up crime? That path has unexpected roadblocks..

街头普通人阿瑟·弗格森·琼斯过着非常简单的生活。他从不迟到，也从不发生任何有趣的事情。有一天一切都改变了：他睡过头，被解雇作为一个例子，然后被误认为是邪恶的罪犯杀手曼宁，被逮捕。他们的相似之处如此惊人，以至于警察给了他一个特别通行证以避免类似的错误。真正的曼宁看到了窃取通行证并自由移动的机会，结果造成了混乱。

Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring. Meg begins falling in love with Nath, but his girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile they all get closer to real danger and the dark secret of the red house.

安德鲁斯（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）曾经是名噪一时的电影明星，但高涨的人气在带来了财富和利益的同时，也给安德鲁斯的精神带来了巨大的压力，久而久之，他被诊断患上了抑郁症，必须息影休养。在接受治疗的这段时间里，安德鲁斯无时不刻的怀念着舞台上的种种，终于，某一日，他收到了老友克罗格（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）发来的电报，邀请他前往罗马，出演由他导演的影片的男主角一角。兴奋的安德鲁斯立刻就将这个企划提上了行程。
然而，当安德鲁斯抵达了罗马后才被告知，他的男主角身份被撤换了，在和克罗格一通大发雷霆之后，安德鲁才知道原来剧组的处境也很困难。克罗格百般劝说终于说服了安德鲁斯留下来替男主角配音。

威尔斯启发了黑色电影风格，又以这个类型风格来处理本片。平静小城受人尊敬的教授原来是纳粹余孽，联邦密探微服侦查，引发出连场杀戮。威尔斯饰演教授，与康城影帝爱德华．罗便臣饰演的联邦密探，大斗演技，成为一时佳话。杀人毒计更为影片带来奥斯卡最佳原著剧本和威尼斯影展最佳电影金狮奖提名，又是他最卖座的电影。

在颁布禁酒令之后,Remy Marco宣布他将转入其他行当.因为他制造的啤酒酿造水平太低,所以他濒临破产.这时,他的女儿爱上了一个有钱人家的公子,但是这个公子却是个警察

Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck. When she gets there she overlooks his duplicity and marries him. Then she falls in love with Buck.

今年的诺贝尔文学奖即将颁奖，所有人的目光都聚集在了那些有可能获奖的作家们身上。让大家都没有想到的是，最终的大奖落在了一个名叫安德鲁（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）的年轻人头上，这个看上去就不太靠谱的作家似乎将更多的热情放在了女人和酒身上，而并没有放在文学创作上。
安德森小姐（艾尔克·萨默 Elke Sommer 饰）成为了安德鲁的朱莉，将打理他在颁奖典礼上的一切大小事务，美丽的安德森很快就吸引了安德鲁的注意。和安德鲁一起领奖的还有一个名叫马克思（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）的男人，他带着他可爱的侄女艾米丽（黛安·贝克 Diane Baker 饰）一同前往瑞典。