路易斯·阿姆斯朗经典作品，由著名导演阿瑟·卢宾完成于1947年。片中两位主演理查德·哈格曼、桃乐西·帕特里克的表演恰到好处，将各自角色塑造得丰满鲜活，栩栩如生，让人印象深刻。此外，片中的大量音乐对这部影片来说更是锦上添花。
出身上流社会的史密斯小姐回到新奥尔良，夫人准备为女儿办一场音乐会展示女儿的才华。著名音乐指挥家福布先生担任音乐会指挥。爵士音乐当时是不能与高雅的古典音乐相提并论的，它是劳动歌曲，源自非洲黄全海岸，其优美的旋律深深吸引了她，风流潇洒的黑人爵土乐队支助者赌场老板金·尼克先生也让她着迷。史密斯夫人极力反对女儿爱金先生，并想方设法破坏尼克的生意，为了不影响史密斯小姐的事业，尼克去了芝加歌。他的爵士音乐在芝加歌大受欢迎，史密斯小姐的歌唱事业也取得了辉煌的成绩，她终于明白尼克离开新奥尔良是为了成就她的发展，随着爵士音乐在全美的广泛流行，他们将二者结合，高雅与通俗得到宗美统一……

Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.

一位叫做“亨利·帽贝”（Henry Limpet）的记账员，他胆小怕事，唯一的爱好就是鱼。一次意外让亨利掉落水中变成了一条鱼，没想到，变成鱼后的亨利勇敢多了，还帮助美国海军成功定位纳粹潜艇，立了大功。

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.