托尼在迈阿密经营着一家入不敷出的旅馆, 女人是他的另一软肋 (雪儿，他目前的女神，比托尼还没责任感).唯一靠谱的是他12岁的能干儿子阿来. 当托尼想让古板的兄弟马里奥再次保释他时, 马里奥提出条件: 要么放弃儿子, 要么和 "贤良淑德的女人"结婚.对此托尼和阿来只是耍太极，此时符合条件的女人埃莉诺却出现了..

When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity.

Life in small town Wisconsin. Selma and Arnold, aged 7 and 5, pal around together between their two farms. Selma has a newborn calf that her father gave to her which she named 'Elizabeth'. Nels is the editor of the Fuller Junction Spectator and the kids just call him 'editor'. Viola is the new school teacher from the big city. While Nels wants to marry Viola, Viola does not want to live in a small quiet, nothing happening town. The biggest news is that Faraassen has built a new barn.

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning - a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning's robbery to finance their escape from the country.

San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong must execute his boyhood friend Sun. Sun knew his time was up and wrote out his will just prior to Wong showing up at his door. When Sun realizes Wong is there to kill me he tries to set his friend's mind at ease by telling him he is the beneficiary of all Sun's worldly possessions and convinces Wong to promise to take care of Sun's young daughter, Toya San who Sun has bequeathed to become his wife. Years later, when she becomes of age, she marries Wong, now a powerful figure, though she loves evil Harry. When Wong learns Toya will be happier with Harry he allows them to leave. Still later Wong learns that Harry has been deported and since Toya could not prove she was married to someone else she too was deported to China. When Wong learns of this, he goes after them.

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

保罗robaix是一个著名的导演，娶了露西戴尔，一个著名的电影明星。robaix想制作一部电影的经典游戏蝴蝶夫人，但他不想让他的妻子扮演主导角色，在他以前的照片。制片人山姆刘易斯和露西戴尔认为了得到她的照片毕竟方案。露西假扮艺妓，并取得领先的部分图片。当robaix发现他变得如此疯狂，他想离婚的露西…

美国西部「壞女人」的婚外情

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a story about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed--all the boys in the War--were his sons, too.

尼克（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）是一个平平无奇的理发师，却对赌博这项危险的运动有着强烈的热情，好在尼克认识一个富翁朋友，这个朋友阔绰的为尼克筹得了一万块钱的巨额赌资，鼓励尼克向赌王辛迪加发起挑战。在此过程中，尼克邂逅了一位美丽的金发美人（伊沃琳·奈普 Evalyn Knapp 饰），从没见过如此尤物的尼克很快就乱了方寸坠入了情网，哪知道与此同时，他也落入了对手为他精心编织的陷阱之中。
结果显而易见，尼克将钱输了个精光，带着屈辱和悔恨回到了老家。虽然失去了金钱和尊严，但是尼克得到了丰富的经验，在朋友的帮助下，他重振旗鼓，再一次进城决定一雪前耻。

When a bellhop knocks out fighter Chuck McGraw, promoter Nick Donati realizes he's a potential champ. "Kid Galahad" justifies Nick's confidence, but Nick's mistress Fluff falls for him; in turn, the Kid falls for Nick's young sister. Now overprotective brother Nick turns against his new fighter, leading to a near- disastrous title fight and a murderous confrontation.

On release from Sing Sing, 'Pressure' Maxwell wants to go into legal business; his pal 'Jug' Martin would rather join fellow inmate Leo's bank robbery scheme. A compromise is reached when Pressure buys a luggage shop next to the bank in question. Pressure, Jug, and their friend Weepy prove the most incompetent burglars ever seen, but their biggest problem is keeping paying customers out of the store! Should they give up crime? That path has unexpected roadblocks..

Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) and Wilhelmina Clark (Jean Arthur) work at the same accounting firm. Jones turns out to look exactly like the notorious bank robber "Killer" Mannion (also Robinson) and is apprehended by the police.
After his true identity is confirmed, the district attorney gives Jones a letter identifying him, so that he can avoid the same trouble in future. Jones becomes a local celebrity and, at the behest of his boss (Wallace Ford), begins ghost-writing Mannion's "autobiography", with good-natured but street-wise Wilhelmina voluntarily acting as his "talent agent" to see that he gets paid.
Mannion decides to take advantage of his mild-mannered doppelgänger and, ultimately, leaving Jones "holding the bag" for Mannion's crimes. He kidnaps Wilhelmina, Jones' visiting aunt, and a few others, and takes them back to his hideout. He instructs Jones to make a large deposit for Mannion's mother's benefit at the First National Bank, where police detectives are expecting Mannion to make another robbery attempt. Fortunately for Jones, he forgets to bring the check and unwittingly leads the police back to Mannion's hideout.
Upon his arrival, Jones is mistaken for Mannion by the waiting henchmen and quickly realizes that he is meant to be the fall guy. When Mannion returns unexpectedly, Jones orders the men to shoot Mannion. The police arrive in time to capture the rest of the gang. With Mannion dead, Jones collects a reward and takes a long-desired cruise to Shanghai with Wilhelmina.

Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring. Meg begins falling in love with Nath, but his girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile they all get closer to real danger and the dark secret of the red house.

安德鲁斯（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）曾经是名噪一时的电影明星，但高涨的人气在带来了财富和利益的同时，也给安德鲁斯的精神带来了巨大的压力，久而久之，他被诊断患上了抑郁症，必须息影休养。在接受治疗的这段时间里，安德鲁斯无时不刻的怀念着舞台上的种种，终于，某一日，他收到了老友克罗格（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）发来的电报，邀请他前往罗马，出演由他导演的影片的男主角一角。兴奋的安德鲁斯立刻就将这个企划提上了行程。
然而，当安德鲁斯抵达了罗马后才被告知，他的男主角身份被撤换了，在和克罗格一通大发雷霆之后，安德鲁才知道原来剧组的处境也很困难。克罗格百般劝说终于说服了安德鲁斯留下来替男主角配音。