After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

乔·安东尼（迪恩·马丁）和哈维·米勒（杰瑞·刘易斯）是一对非常成功的喜剧搭档。哈维的高尔夫球技很好，父亲也是一位出色的高尔夫球手，他自己却因为太过怯场而不能在别人面前打球。乔是哈维女朋友的哥哥。乔的父亲想让他子承父业做渔民，乔却一心想通过高尔夫比赛赚钱。得知乔对高尔夫的兴趣后，哈维成为了乔的教练和球童。在参加美国职业高尔夫球协会巡回比赛的过程中，一位精明的经纪人发现了两人的喜剧天赋，帮助他们开始了喜剧表演生涯。

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and flees to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

20世纪50年代末和60年代初，一对慈爱的母亲和妻子处理着一个中产阶级家庭的情况和问题。

Hoping to find everything just as he had left it four years ago, soldier Jeff Compton, who is home on a two-week furlough, visits the New York City department store in which he worked and surprises his former co-worker and sweetheart Jean Kendrick with a kiss. Jean, who is now an executive with the store, has since fallen out of love with Jeff, however, and is dating Walter Medcraft in the accounting department. As Jean never returned the engagement ring that Jeff sent to her while he was away, Jeff believes that she is still his fiancé. Realizing that Jeff is about to get his heart broken, Dilworthy and other department employees band together and, with Jean's consent, work diligently to prevent Jeff from learning the truth about his failed engagement. While Walter is out of town on business, Jean is temporarily assigned to the stock room to keep her away from the other store employees, who might reveal the truth. Jean tries to make the best of her temporary demotion while clumsily hiding her ineptitude at menial stockroom tasks, but trouble mounts when Jeff makes plans for an immediate wedding. After stalling Jeff's rush to marriage, Jean makes hasty arrangements to move back into her former, and more modest, West Tenth street apartment so that Jeff will not suspect that she become more successful. Professor Boris Riminoffsky, a music teacher and a romantic idealist who is currently living in Jean's old apartment, gladly gives up his apartment for two weeks when he learns that it will be done in the name of love. No sooner does Riminoffsky step out of his apartment than Jeff arrives ready to seduce his sweetheart. While Jeff plays a romantic tune for Jean on the piano, Riminoffsky and Dilworthy, who have been getting drunk in a bar, decide to help keep things moving along for the couple by returning to the apartment after Jeff and Jean leave and turning it into a "garden of Eden" honeymoon suite. Jeff, still with marriage on his mind, takes Jean for a drive up the coast to visit his great-grandfather and to present her with a gift. Soon after Jeff and Jean return to New York, Jeff visits Walter, who has returned from his trip. Jeff informs him that he plans to marry "Miss 916," and Walter is happy for Jeff until he realizes that "Miss 916" is Jean. When Jeff ducks out of Walter's office to buy Jean a wedding ring, Jean tells Walter the truth about her relationship with Jeff. Meanwhile, Jeff learns the truth about Jean and Walter from the jeweler, who has the ring that Walter ordered for Jean ready for delivery. Jeff is devastated by the revelation, but the situation is soon remedied when the department employs a new scheme to reunite Jeff and Jean, and Jean forsakes her relationship with Walter. The department staff, watching anxiously as Jeff and Jean are brought together in a store display, declare the couple "sold" when they profess their love for each other.

When his son Andy is kidnapped and held for ransom, David Stannard liquidates his assets to meet the half-million dollar demand. A casual remark by newspaper reporter Charlie Telfer makes him change his mind. Despite the pleas from his wife Edith and brother Al, and the resultant condemnation of the press and public, Stannard goes on a nation-wide television program, displays the money and warns the kidnapper that not one cent will be paid for ransom; instead the money will be used to track down the kidnapper if Andy isn’t returned unharmed. The police then find the boy’s blood-stained shirt.

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in.

日本袭击珍珠港后，PT船中队的成员在菲律宾水域巡逻，并袭击日本船只。PT船最初几乎没有得到海军高级军官的尊重，但它们的机动性和速度很快改变了他们的想法。随着日本在菲律宾的推进，PT船在疏散包括麦克阿瑟将军在内的高级人员方面变得至关重要。

一家剥削报纸的编辑犯下了谋杀罪，并指派他的代理人进行调查，希望转移人们对他自己的注意力。

尼克和诺拉在当地赛马场度过一个愉快下午的希望破灭了，因为有人发现一名骑师在更衣室里中弹身亡。尼克的朋友艾布拉姆斯中尉想让他帮忙，但是尼克太享受这种美好的生活了。然而，史高丽少校随后找他调查腐败和有组织犯罪在赌博中的作用。

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

故事发生在第二次世界大战刚刚结束之后，一切都是百废待兴的样子。士兵查尔斯（范·强生 Van Johnson 饰）在完成了自己身为一名军人的使命之后，决定留在巴黎，进军文艺界，成为一名作家。在巴黎，查尔斯邂逅了海伦（伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰）和玛丽安（唐娜·里德 Donna Reed 饰）姐妹两，很快，查尔斯便和海伦坠入了爱河，两人结为夫妻，并且有了他们爱情的结晶。
虽然感情生活一帆风顺，但查尔斯的事业却一直没有起色，迟迟无法获得成功的他心灰意冷，开始依靠酒精派遣内心的郁闷。某天，酩酊大醉的查尔斯将海伦锁在了门外，海伦因此患上肺炎不幸去世，玛丽安则带走了两人的孩子，查尔斯失去了一切。

道林格雷（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰）是一个出生非常卑微的穷小子，在一次机缘巧合之下结识了著名画家巴兹尔（Lowell Gilmore 饰）和绅士亨利，在两人的引荐之下，道林格雷接触到了巴黎上流社交圈的奢靡生活，就此无法自拔。巴兹尔为道林格雷画了一副肖像画，将他美丽的身体描摹得栩栩如生，这幅画已经流入市场就引发了圈内各路人士的热烈讨论与赞美，道林格雷也就此成为了圈中名人。
之后，道林格雷邂逅了名为塞西莉亚（唐娜·里德 Donna Reed 饰）的女子，塞西莉亚是一位美丽的剧场演员，没过多久，两人就坠入了情网之中，决定邂逅步入婚姻的殿堂。当亨利得知道林格雷即将结婚的消息大为震惊，他用花言巧语诱骗道林格雷抛弃塞西莉亚，最终导致了他们两人感情的破裂。

故事发生在1941年的夏天，帕维特（蒙哥马利·克利夫特 Montgomery Clift 饰）刚刚被调到夏威夷军营，连长霍默思（Philip Ober 饰）看到帕维特体格壮硕，便邀请他加入军中的拳击队。没想到，帕维特拒绝了霍默思的邀请，这令霍默思感到愤怒又难堪。帕维特也曾是拳击界的一把好手，但一次意外中他打伤了对手的眼睛致其失明，悔恨交加的他发誓永远不再站上擂台。
霍默思的妻子凯伦（黛博拉·蔻儿 Deborah Kerr 饰）美丽又温柔，在士官长瓦尔登（伯特·兰卡斯特 Burt Lancaster 饰）的诱惑之下，两人产生了背德的感情。一次意外中，士官强森（欧内斯特·博格宁 Ernest Borgnine 饰）的恶意挑衅导致了士兵马乔（弗兰克·辛纳特拉 Frank Sinatra 饰）的死亡，面对这一悲剧，帕维特决定不再忍耐，愤怒至极的他向强森挥起了拳头。

瓦伦丁·戴维斯导演的本片，描写的是20-30年代的故事，班尼古曼（史蒂夫·艾伦饰）将爵士音乐带进美国，然而它的平民化的风格为上流社会所排斥。全片重心在描述爵士音乐起源于纽约奥良的街头以卖唱为风格，班尼古曼将爵士乐与正统的古典音乐结合在一起，形成了另类的可以登堂入室的爵士乐舞曲，形成美国的特有的文化。本片叙事性比较强，情节缓和，娓娓道来，给人以平和的感觉，也可以让人了解爵士乐的历史。