导演马丁·斯科塞斯坦率真而充满激情地谈论他的一位对电影制作产生重要影响的人：已故的埃利亚·卡赞。斯科塞斯坦和肯特·琼斯共同导演的影片中，精心挑选了卡赞的代表作品片段，包括《码头风云》、《欲望号街车》、《绅士协定》、《婴儿娃娃》、《布鲁克林的一棵树》、《人群中的一张脸》、《美国，美国》和《最后的亲王》，并通过导演本人的采访片段，讲述了他从群剧团到好莱坞一线明星，再到黑名单的坎坷历程。但最重要的是，他们有力地证明了卡赞作为一个在著名的冷漠行业中深具个人风格的艺术家的地位。

Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.

At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the end of the line get none. They leave the mission and head for a garbage dump where junk becomes props for their play. A dress form becomes Mae West; a rusted car gives them a wild ride. Then, one dresses as a priest and promises pie in the sky. By the end, they sport metal halos.

In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.