Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.

斯卡特·斯威尼（Scat Sweeney）和热唇巴顿（Hot Lips Barton）是两位失业的音乐家，在马戏团的大顶部意外放火后，他们偷偷登上了一艘开往里约热内卢的船上。然后他们与一个潜在的自杀者露西亚混在一起，露西亚首先感谢他们，然后出人意料地将他们交给船长。当他们发现她被催眠，为了方便的婚姻，当船到达里约热内卢时，男孩们出现在仪式上，以阻止婚礼，并帮助抓住骗子。

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.

1935 film directed by King Vidor

一战以后，犯罪片也逐渐在美国繁荣起来，这一时期，观众和艺术家普遍对事物不乐观。不少士兵、小业主和家庭主妇、工厂雇员对回到和平时期经济状况时的幻灭感，直接反映在城市犯罪片的暗淡色彩中，影片《怒吼的二十年代》就是这一现象的集中体现。
三个军人在一战之后回到了20年代的美国，赫特成了律师，哈利成了私酒贩子，艾迪打算当出租车司机。由于禁酒时期的私酒赚钱容易，艾迪和史密斯也参加了私酒买卖并与哈利成了伙伴，但这种生意的残酷使艾迪感到厌恶，他又尝试去做股票生意。1929年的经济萧条使他倾家荡产。艾迪听说哈利想要谋杀他的同伙哈特，因为哈特实际上是执法吏，艾迪杀死了哈利但自己也死在对方枪手的枪口下。

二战期间，卡萨布兰卡是欧洲逃往美国的必经之地，那里鱼龙混杂，局势紧张。里克（亨佛莱•鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）是一个神秘的商人，他在卡萨布兰卡开了一家人气很旺的夜总会，并拥有两张宝贵的通行证。一天，反纳粹人士维克多和妻子伊尔莎（英格丽•褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）来到夜总会，原来他们正在逃避纳粹的追捕。碰巧的是，里克发现，伊尔莎竟然是他的旧日情人。那段爱曾经刻骨铭心，却因为一个误会而终止。而当误会消解时，伊尔莎和里克的感情还是不可避免的重燃了。里克手上的两张通行证能帮助维克多度过难关，但这样一来，伊尔莎是决定留下，还是离去，他们的爱情在政治和伦理的推波逐流中走向何方。