退役警探约翰·弗格森（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）的同学加文·埃尔斯特（汤姆·赫尔莫 Tom Helmore 饰）是造船商。他请求约翰跟踪自己的妻子，并称妻子经常被鬼魂附身。随后，约翰按照加文的指示，在厄尼餐厅见到了一位美丽的女人（金姆·诺瓦克 Kim Novak 饰）。经过跟踪，约翰发现女人确有不同寻常的行为：开车出门，去花店买花，去墓园在卡洛塔·巴尔德斯的碑前驻足，去荣勋宫博物馆凝视卡洛塔画像，最后进入麦基屈克旅馆并出现在二楼的一扇窗前。约翰随即进入旅馆调查，发现女人登记名为卡洛塔·巴尔德斯，但其房中无人。卡洛塔·巴尔德斯究竟是何方神圣，鬼魂真的能附身活人吗？

雷纳德（芭芭拉·贝尔·戈迪斯 Barbara Bel Geddes 饰）从小的梦想就是能嫁给一个金龟婿，做全职家庭主妇，长大后，她和百万富翁史密斯（罗伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 饰）相爱，并且最终携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。可是，结婚之后雷纳德才发现，婚姻生活并不是她想象的那么美好，而史密斯也有着不为人知的另一面，雷纳德想要和史密斯离婚。
雷纳德离家出走了，她宁愿去做诊所接待员，自食其力，也不愿意再活在史密斯的淫威之下。在诊所，雷纳德邂逅了名为拉里（詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰）的医生，两人坠入了爱河，可与此同时，雷纳德发现自己竟然怀孕了。

故事发生在新奥尔良市，布莱基因（杰克·帕兰斯 Jack Palance 饰）是一个不学无术游手好闲的小混混，他和一个名叫查卡的非法移民之间产生了一些经济纠纷，于是便找来了好友，将查卡杀死了。查卡的尸体被发现后，被送往公共卫生局进行解剖，负责解剖的克林特医生（理查德·威德马克 Richard Widmark 饰）震惊的发现，查卡患有会传染的瘟疫，这也就意味着，凡是和查卡接触过的人，都有患病的可能。
为了避免瘟疫大肆传播的惨剧发生，克林特医生奉命在四十八小时内要找到所有查卡生前接触过的人，并且这一调查必须秘密的进行，否则将会引起恐慌。

The credits fade onto a blind man tapping his way down the sidewalk,he enters a dingy boarding house and hears a shot fired in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A door opens from audience POV. A man tumbles out of the door and falls, slides and slithers down two flights of stairs and is dead when he hits the bottom. Then follows nearly 100 minutes of flashback and flashbacks-within-flashbacks about a veteran returing from the war, tired and disillusioned, only to find that he girl he loves has lied to him about her relationship with another man, and that man is sadistic, boastful and tauntful.

Loosely based on Kathryn Forbes' book -Mama's Bank Account-, this film actually contains richer detail and more intricate character- izations. In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, young Katrina Hansen chronicles episodes of life with her extended family, who combine traditional Norwegian values with "modern" American ways. So successful that it became a popular radio show, and then a TV sitcom, both with Barbara BelGeddes and Irene Dunne from the film.

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of that.
Written by Tiziana Totaro <susannkey@hotmail.com>

Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and an exceptional housekeeper. One day, her husband, the police chief, announces that he wants a divorce because he has met another woman. Mary is quite angry and kills him with a blow from a frozen leg of lamb. She calls the police and provides and alibi for herself with the story that she'd been out to the store when the murder took place. The investigating officer, Lieutenant Noonan, is further frustrated when he cannot to find the murder weapon. Knowing of the long and hard hours spent looking into the case, Mary invites Noonan and the other investigators for a bite to eat. They dig into Mary's leg of lamb and Noonan still thinking about the missing murder weapon says "For all we know, it might be right under our very noses."

出身贫寒的南部地主身患重病不久于世，他的两个性格相反的儿子布雷克和古柏带着各自的妻子参加他六十五岁的生日聚会。古柏是一位律师并管理大笔产业；弟弟布雷克却因为自己误会老友致使他自杀身亡，并怪其妻与挚友有染，不与其同房，成为大嫂的笑柄并无法接管产业。其实布雷克也不想继承产业，因为他觉得世上一切都很虚伪，但经过贤妻玛姬的激励以及伯父的开导，他才开始了解生活的意义，因而全家最终各得其所。

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out. Written by Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>