简述了一个金发女人地故事。容貌娇美的她，是巴黎地一个画家，拥有着一个让人羡慕的家庭。但是战争爆发，玛丽安地丈夫应召入伍，只留下母子两个人相依为命。生活的艰难，使得玛丽安经历了一些列的磨难，先是房子失火，失去了居住之地，后是接到了丈夫在前线战死的消息，无奈之下玛丽安不得不放弃了画画而沦为酒馆里面的妓女，并且得到了一个绰号“金发维纳斯”。她凭借着美貌，周旋于男人之间，本想寻找一个可以一起生活过下半辈子的人，但是那些男人们只不过把她当成了玩物。战争使得国内的民众不堪忍受，纷纷要求政府停战，他们向政府游行抗议，却受到了政府的镇压。玛丽安也带着儿子参加了这次游行，结果自己的儿子却在游行中被一名军人打死。儿子的死，让玛丽安彻底崩溃，因为儿子是她生活的唯一希望。这也引发了这个女人对世界对男人的切齿的恨。她开始了报复，利用她的美貌勾引那些不怀好意的男人，然后杀掉他们。与此同时，她也在追查那个杀死自己儿子的军人的下落，而她的线索，只是记得那个男人的军装下摆，绣着一朵金黄色的雏菊。

Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) and Wilhelmina Clark (Jean Arthur) work at the same accounting firm. Jones turns out to look exactly like the notorious bank robber "Killer" Mannion (also Robinson) and is apprehended by the police.
After his true identity is confirmed, the district attorney gives Jones a letter identifying him, so that he can avoid the same trouble in future. Jones becomes a local celebrity and, at the behest of his boss (Wallace Ford), begins ghost-writing Mannion's "autobiography", with good-natured but street-wise Wilhelmina voluntarily acting as his "talent agent" to see that he gets paid.
Mannion decides to take advantage of his mild-mannered doppelgänger and, ultimately, leaving Jones "holding the bag" for Mannion's crimes. He kidnaps Wilhelmina, Jones' visiting aunt, and a few others, and takes them back to his hideout. He instructs Jones to make a large deposit for Mannion's mother's benefit at the First National Bank, where police detectives are expecting Mannion to make another robbery attempt. Fortunately for Jones, he forgets to bring the check and unwittingly leads the police back to Mannion's hideout.
Upon his arrival, Jones is mistaken for Mannion by the waiting henchmen and quickly realizes that he is meant to be the fall guy. When Mannion returns unexpectedly, Jones orders the men to shoot Mannion. The police arrive in time to capture the rest of the gang. With Mannion dead, Jones collects a reward and takes a long-desired cruise to Shanghai with Wilhelmina.

A look at never completed version of I, Claudius. This is a wonderful look at film making in the golden age, both as it was and as memory has made it. We get to see the stars and crew talk about a project that got away and how it still haunts them.
This is one of the best films on films ever made, partly because it shows us what might have been a treasure, but also because it does what what movies do best, create an illusion of something that doesn't really exist. With a film like this, made decades after events, the mind is left to ponder what the aborted film might have been. From the few scraps of actual footage we expand it out to a completed film that might have been one of the greatest films of all time. Of course it all could have gone south as well, but the fun is in what might have been....
10 out of 10
A Personal request- would someone please put this out on DVD by itself, its stupid to make us buy the BBC miniseries just to be able to see this.

Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as Slim Cole, Sam Polo, Monte Montague, and Albert Prisco