美国的一个小镇，Jefferson Smith（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart饰）是当地的童子军的首领，深受青少年们的喜爱，被选为新的参议员，来到了华盛顿。遇到了他父亲的老朋友，同为参议员的Joseph Paine（克劳德·雷恩斯 Claude Rains饰），并且迷上了Joseph的漂亮女儿。单纯的Jefferson从来没来过华盛顿，在华盛顿闹了不少笑话，被媒体纷纷取笑。Joseph让Jefferson起草一个提案，并让他的女秘书Clarissa Saunders（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰）协助Jefferson。然而Jefferson却发现，他的这个所谓参议员不过是其他老谋深算的参议员手中的木偶，他发现了他们一个巨大的阴谋。Jefferson决定以自己单薄的力量来对抗那群人，来改变这个腐败的政治环境。到底他能否成功？史密斯先生的华盛顿之旅会如何结束？
　　本片获第11届奥斯卡10项提名，赢得最佳原创剧本一奖。

故事描述华尔街巨子卡比为了赚钱而有意将工厂扩展到住宅区，但遭该地范德霍夫家族强烈反对。范家成员个个性情古怪，次女爱丽丝并在卡比公司担任秘书，又和卡比的儿子托尼相恋，引起卡比的不满。双方的纠纷最后由德高望重的祖父居中调解，卡比也变成乐善好施的慈善家。 改编自获得普立兹奖的百老汇舞台剧，采用喜剧手法宣扬新睦邻的主题，在三十年代面对经济不景气打击的美国老百姓因而感受到人际温情和生活希望，使这部洋溢着乐天思想的影片勇夺当年金像奖最佳影片奖殊荣。导演弗兰克．卡普拉以其一贯兼具讽刺性与娱乐性的手法拍出人情世态的微妙冲突，莱昂内尔．巴里莫尔、琪恩．阿瑟、詹姆斯．斯图尔特等演得也成功。

This production of 'Twelve Angry Men', written especially for Studio One, is shorter than the film version and leaves a few twists and turns of plot undeveloped, but it is fifty minutes of class nevertheless. For many years this episode was thought to have been lost. The Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) had only the first 30 minutes of the hour-long program on a kinescope provided by CBS - the only version CBS had. After nearly 30 years of searching, a copy of the complete program was found in 2003 by filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who was working on a documentary about noted defense attorney Robert Leibowitz (Leibowitz reported on the Charles A. Lindbergh baby kidnapping for the NY radio station WHN) and found a copy of the show in the archives maintained by the children of Leibowitz, Robert Leibowitz and Marjorie Leibowitz Finch. Samuel Leibowitz requested and received a commercial-free kinescope copy of "Twelve Angry Men" from CBS shortly after it aired because of his interest in legal issues. The Leibowitz children donated the kinescope to the museum and it had a re-premiere in May 2003.

在大萧条期间，一位富有的银行家扔掉了妻子昂贵的皮大衣；它落在了速记员的头上，导致每个人都认为她是他的情妇，可以得到他的数百万美元。

故事发生在圣彼得堡的贫民区内，拉斯柯尔尼科夫（彼得·洛 Peter Lorre 饰）是生活在那里的一名穷学生，本来在学校里读法律系的他，最终因为交不起学费而失去了继续深造的资格，只能灰溜溜的回到家中，靠着母亲和妹妹养活。
一次偶然中，拉斯柯尔尼科夫结识了名叫马尔美拉陀夫的男人，马尔美拉陀夫和拉斯柯尔尼科夫一样闲赋在家，为了生存，他竟然逼迫自己的长女去当了妓女。拉斯柯尔尼科夫发誓自己不能够和眼前这个邪恶的男人混为一谈，决定干一番大事。一天，拉斯柯尔尼科夫杀死了放高利贷的当铺老板娘，又杀死了老板娘的妹妹，回到家后，深深的罪恶感开始折磨拉斯柯尔尼科夫的内心。

一个运气不佳的农民与魔鬼做了一笔交易，换取七年的繁荣。 当斯克拉奇先生前来收集时，演说家兼普通人英雄丹尼尔·韦伯斯特前来救援。 根据斯蒂芬·文森特·贝尼特的短篇小说改编。 也被称为“金钱能买到的一切”。

伐木工头Barney野心勃勃，他提出要升级为老板的合伙人，而老板提出了要求：他必须娶老板的女儿。
他答应了，而就在婚前，他在小酒馆遇上了一个漂亮姑娘Lotta，并且彼此相爱了......

安妮（蓓蒂·赫顿 Betty Hutton 饰）是个性格大大咧咧的假小子，在一场射击比赛中她夺得头筹，于是受邀加入了《狂野西部》的演出队伍中，在这里，安妮邂逅了名为弗兰克（霍华德·基尔 Howard Keel 饰）的男子，随着时间的推移，安妮渐渐的爱上了弗兰克。然而，弗兰克喜欢的是那种长发穿裙子极富女人味的类型，安妮的形象和个性显然和弗兰克的理想型背道而驰。
当安妮在表演中一炮而红后，嫉妒心驱使弗兰克离开了《狂野西部》表演组，加入了他们的对头《波尼印第安人比尔秀》。在后者的挤兑之下，《狂野西部》损失了许多人气，面临歇业的命运。

被解雇的报社女记者安·米歇尔伪造了一封信给报社，署名“约翰·杜伊”（即无名氏），信上表示对这个充满恶瘤的社会充满失望，决心要自杀。报社为此不得不重新聘用了安来调查此事。然而，没想到此事最终引发了一场政治运动……

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Stockbroker T.T.Ralston has promised his neice Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s new partner Steve Bennett the $10,000 and asks him to double it. Later in a discussion with T.T., business partner Dick and client Van, about truth in business Steve bets the $10,000. that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Having already accepted an invitation for a weekend on T.T.'s houseboat, Steve is subjected to 24 hours of attempts to get him to lie or divulge the bet, which would lose him (and Gwen) the $10,000.

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.