鲍勃（洛克•哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰）是一个整日里游手好闲的花花公子。一次搭乘潜艇出海是，鲍勃遭遇了海难，警方带来了镇上的唯一一个人工呼吸器，救了鲍勃一名。但医院院长菲利普却在同时病发，因为没有呼吸器而死去了。得知 了这一消息，鲍勃感到十分内疚，他决定倾其所有来帮助菲利普的遗孀海伦（简•怀曼 Jane Wyman 饰）。
然而，菲利普的好意却意外的令海伦双目失明。鲍勃隐姓埋名陪伴在失明的海伦的身边，在不知道鲍勃的真实身份的情况下，海伦对鲍勃渐渐产生了好感。最终，鲍勃表明了身份希望海伦能够嫁给他，在得知了一切的真相后，海伦选择了离开。

1910年，一位任性的母亲再次造访她遗弃的家庭。

改编自詹姆斯·M·凯恩的小說《Love's Lovely Counterfeit》，一个城市商人在爱上新当选市长的未婚妻时，卷入了有组织犯罪、腐败的城市政治和贪污。

Lyle Endicott is a smooth manipulator, but he's not smooth enough to save his job at a Manhattan art museum. And his talent doesn't seem to have gotten him anywhere in life. "Why not just once can something go right for me?" he wonders. Luck finally seems to shine on him when he overhears his boss, Mr. Koether, talking to one of the museum's patrons, Martha Cheney, an invalid who uses a wheelchair. She and Koether call each other by their first names, but their friendship isn't enough to persuade Miss Cheney to sell him the famous Cheney vase. Lyle realizes the heirloom is worth a lot of money -- money that can be his if he manages to insinuate himself into the old woman's life.

A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...