The biographical drama of the difficult recovery of the actress Patricia Neal with the help of her husband, the writer Roald Dahl after having suffered from a sudden attack.

故事发生在第二次世界大战期间，伊芙琳（桑德拉·狄 Sandra Dee 饰）、安妮（琼·芳登 Joan Fontaine 饰）、迪莉娅（派珀·劳瑞 Piper Laurie 饰）和芭芭拉（简·西蒙斯 Jean Simmons 饰）是情同手足的四姐妹。她们所生活的城镇里，所有的男人都被派上了战场，这让生性风流的伊芙琳和莉迪亚感到无法忍受，美军进驻后，两个妙龄少女决定抓住这个千载难逢的好机会，展现各自的魅力，享受愉悦的男女之情。
大姐安妮个性稳重而又保守，一直对粗鲁的美军深感不满，直到有一天，她遇见了一位温文尔雅的美国上尉，两人双双坠入了爱河。与此同时，芭芭拉也邂逅了少校哈丁（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）。

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

1959 film by Fred Zinnemann