Temple Drake is a Southern belle who leads men on with her sexuality but usually leaves them wanting. She's loved by lawyer Stephen Benbow, whom she likes but doesn't love. While out carousing with one of her beaux, she finds herself stranded with a gang of bootleggers, one of whom, Trigger, rapes her and makes her his sex slave. When another man is accused of a murder Trigger ...
Allen Pierce, an important newspaper columnist who has been working on an exposé of Nazi sympathizers, is in a Washington hospital when he is visited by reporter Harry Mitchell. After Pierce entrusts Harry with a photocopy of the cover of the Argyle Album, which contains the names of the conspirators, Pierce dies suddenly and a steel scalpel is found sticking in his chest. Harr...
秀兰是一个冒险计划的推进者的女儿,她的父亲除了要弄到金钱之外还有更多的梦想。她的父亲有一次把她带到了一个晚会上,在那里她受到了她父亲一些有钱的朋友的冷落,这时她得到了迪基·穆尔的吻,这是秀兰屏幕生涯的第一次接吻。
乔安(西尔维娅·西德尼 Sylvia Sidney 饰)在公共治安防卫队工作,这也就意味着,她平日里打交道的,都是一些非常危险的犯罪分子。好巧不巧的是,乔安竟然爱上了其中的一个,那是一个名叫艾迪(亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰)的男人。
高大英俊的艾迪给予了乔安一种错觉,那就是他本质上其实是一个好人,只不过一时走火入魔才走上了犯罪的道路。乔安坚信通过自己的努力,能够使艾迪改邪归正重返社会。在乔安的帮助之下,艾迪通过良好的表现获得了减刑,并且最终刑满出狱,之后乔安和艾迪携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。然而,一个人的本性真的能够如此轻易的被改变吗?
Tony (Charles Laughton), a successful but illiterate middle-aged grape farmer, sends the photograph of his handsome young foreman, Joe (William Gargan), instead of his own, hoping to woo and marry Amy (Carole Lombard), a waitress in a San Francisco restaurant. Through a series of letters, the two become close and Tony invites his "future wife" to visit. When the beautiful, youn...