It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

Engineer-turned-executive Fred Staples is excited to start his new job at the big firm that acquired his factory. But before long, he realizes he’s being groomed to replace Bill Briggs, a friendly long-timer who’s lost favor with the cruel CEO, Walter Ramsey. Rather than fire Briggs, Ramsey sabotages and humiliates him in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent Staples his new right-hand man.

Act I

In August 1946 Joe Keller, a self-made businessman, is visited by neighbor, Frank. At the request of Kate, Joe's wife, Frank is trying to figure out the horoscope of the Kellers' missing son Larry, who disappeared three years earlier. While Kate still believes Larry is coming back, the Kellers' other son Chris believes otherwise. Furthermore, Chris wishes to propose to Ann Deever, who was Larry's girlfriend at the time he went missing and who has been corresponding with Chris for two years. Joe and Kate react to this news with shock but are interrupted by Bert, the neighbor boy next door. When Bert brings up the jail Kate reacts sharply. After Ann Deever enters, it is revealed that Ann's father, Steve Deever, is in prison for selling cracked cylinder heads to the Air Force, causing twenty-one planes to crash. Joe was his partner but was exonerated of the crime. Ann admits that neither she nor her brother keep in touch with their father anymore and wonders aloud whether this was responsible for Larry's death. After a heated argument Chris breaks in and later proposes to Ann, who says yes. Chris also reveals that, while leading a company, he lost all his men and is experiencing survivor's guilt. Meanwhile, Joe receives a phone call from George, Ann's brother, who is coming there to settle something.
Act II

While Chris avoids telling his mom about the engagement, their next door neighbor Sue emerges and reveals that everyone on the block still thinks Joe is guilty. Shortly thereafter George arrives and reveals that he has just been to visit his father. Steve Deever had been told by Joe to cover up the cracked cylinders and send them out; Joe is equally guilty of the crime. George insists Ann will not marry Chris, son of the man who destroyed their family. Joe and the rest of the family deny this, but Kate reveals that Joe hasn't been sick in fifteen years. Since Joe's story was that the flu laid him up on that fateful day, George attacks them once more. Frank comes in with the horoscope, which implies that Larry is alive, which is just what Kate wants to hear. Chris, however, is furious at his father despite Joe's explanations that he was merely building a business for his sons, which Chris never accepted.
Act III

Chris has gone missing. Kate, having finally believed the accusations, tells Joe that should Chris come back, Joe must turn himself in. Joe, who only made money because his family wanted to, is stunned at how they are turning on him. Ann emerges soon after and reveals to Kate that she has a letter from Larry. She hadn't wanted to share it, but she knows that Kate must face reality. In the letter, Larry confesses that he plans to kill himself because of his father's guilt. With this final blow, Joe says he'll turn himself in, goes inside to get his coat, then kills himself with a gunshot to the head. At the end, Chris reveals this, and Kate tells him to not blame himself.

接连发生的两起谋杀案让市民们陷入了恐慌之中，犯罪者干净利落的作案手段亦让警方没了头绪。警方好不容易找到了一个嫌疑人，哪知道这名嫌疑人在不久之后亦被杀害，案件彻底的陷入了迷雾之中。焦头烂额的布瑞格斯探长（劳伊德·诺兰 Lloyd Nolan 饰）找到了优秀的探员柯代尔（马克·史蒂文斯 Mark Stevens 饰），希望他能够成为终结这一连串噩梦的那个人。
经过缜密的调查取证，柯代尔发现这一切和一个名为埃里克（理查德·威德马克 Richard Widmark 饰）的男子以及他领导的帮派有着不可分割的联系，于是他隐姓埋名潜伏在帮派内部，哪知道在警方中，亦有帮派的卧底存在。

Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York 'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. But when a reporter, pursuing a lead on racketeer Rienzi, is badly beaten, Hutcheson is stung into a full fledged crusade against the gangster, hoping Rienzi can be tied to a woman's murder...in the 3 issues before the end of 'The Day.'

故事讲述哥伯误被当成盗贼，遭人用刑，便把他绑于绳上，欲置他于死地。幸好，哥伯大难不死，更决定要找出他们来进行大报复……

Harry Palmer已经离开了英国情报服务部门并成为一个私家侦探。他接到的第一个业务就是带一样东西去赫尔辛基，可是他带在身上的东西可没那么简单，他开始怀疑他这个亿万富翁到底给了他什么……

冷酷、孤僻的城市警察吉姆·威尔逊粗暴对待了太多的嫌疑人，并被派往州北部帮助调查冬季乡村一名年轻女孩的谋杀案。在那里，他遇到了玛丽·马尔登，他觉得她很有吸引力，也很独立。然而，玛丽的哥哥是这起谋杀案的主要嫌疑人。玛丽自己也是盲人。

一个在贫民窟长大的18岁少年因为涉嫌杀害自己的父亲被告上法庭，证人言之凿凿，各方面的证据都对他极为不利。十二个不同职业的人组成了这个案件的陪审团，他们要在休息室达成一致的意见，裁定少年是否有罪，如果罪名成立，少年将会被判处死刑。
十二个陪审团成员各有不同，除了8号陪审员（H enry Fonda 饰）之外，其他人对这个犯罪事实如此清晰的案子不屑一顾，还没有开始讨论就认定了少年有罪。8号陪审员提出了自己的“合理疑点”，耐心地说服其他的陪审员，在这个过程中，他们每个人不同的人生观也在冲突和较量……