凯撒(华伦·威廉 Warren William 饰)率军占领埃及后,邂逅了美丽的克莉巴特拉(克劳黛·考尔白 Claudette Colbert 饰),两人坠入了爱河,凯撒带着克莉巴特拉来到了丹德拉,在那里,人们将克莉巴特拉称为女王。很快,克莉巴特拉为凯撒生下了一个可爱的儿子,之后两人前往罗马,在那里,克莉巴特拉以其美艳不可方物的外貌获得了臣民们的拥戴,一时之间至高无上的地位不可撼动。
不幸的是,凯撒的遇刺身亡让克莉巴特拉的境遇急转直下。凯撒的继承人安东尼(亨利·威尔克松 Henry Wilcoxon 饰)一直倾慕于克莉巴特拉的美貌,甚至不惜将大片疆土送给她,最终两人不顾举国的反对步入婚姻殿堂因此而引发了战争,安东尼在战争中败北自尽,新的执政者屋大维决定处死祸国殃民的克莉巴特拉。
Jim Lane is a test pilot, whose professional life is dangerous, and whose personal life compensates for that danger by fast living and recklessness. As such, he lives from paycheck to paycheck, and is often in debt, but knows his lucrative job will eventually get him out of those debts. On a coast to coast record attempt speed flight, Jim's plane, the Drake Bullet (named after ...
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without falling in love.
Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.
一位新墨西哥州的牧场主人,由于过分热心工作而逐渐疏远了他的家庭,家人并没有放弃他,而是积极地帮助他,最后使得他又重回了家庭的怀抱。
这是一部拍得十分缓慢而感伤的西部文艺片,内容和趣味性都显得有点单薄,显然影片是拍得太长了。导演伊莱亚.卡赞的导技在本片中表现得平凡无奇,而史班赛屈塞和凯瑟琳.赫本这对美妙的搭档也显不出应有的光芒。不过摄影倒相当出色。