改编自扬子江事件,二战结束后紫石英号被编入英国远东舰队,驻扎香港。1949年4月20日,紫石英号在此之前我国已经发布渡江战役公告,令各国船只撤离长江。收到解放军的通知后,美国等几个国家相继撤离,只有英国紫石英号满不在乎地以为这只是解放军的口头警告,并不想撤离反而想逆流而上,意图挑衅从中获取利益,从而引出的突围故事。
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
林肯总统签署的最后一项法案授权将联合太平洋铁路穿过荒原推向加利福尼亚。但金融投机家阿萨-巴罗斯(Asa Barrows)希望通过阻挠这条铁路获利。首席故障排除专家杰夫-巴特勒(Jeff Butler)手忙脚乱地与巴罗斯的代理人、赌徒希德-坎普(Sid Campeau)斗智斗勇;坎普的合伙人迪克-艾伦(Dick Allen)是杰夫的战友,也是工程师女儿莫莉-莫纳汉(Molly Monahan)的情敌追求者。谁能在不惜一切代价推动铁路贯通的努力中幸存下来?
讲述了孤苦伶仃的小美人贾丝廷经历一轮又一轮残暴凌辱后终与姐妹重逢的感人故事。