Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

　　在纽约布鲁克林区的公寓里，住着两名表面看起来十分和善慈祥的老太太，不料她们竟用自己酿制的毒酒杀了来访的一些孤独老头。此秘密让她们的侄儿加里·格兰特偶然发现，该怎么善后？
　　改编自百老汇舞台名剧，由名导演弗兰克·卡普拉于1941年拍成电影。因适逢二战开始，恐怕本片内容对世道人心有不良影响，故一直拖延到大战后期的1944年才正式公映。其实这只是一部构想奇特的黑色喜剧，本身并无什么毒性。本片在喜趣的背后道出了老年人乏人照顾的凄凉晚景：死亡是他们的最大解脱，而杀人竟成为一种善意的表示。故事主题颇具反省意义。

故事发生在美国路易斯安那州，在这里，贪污腐败的风气盛行，买官卖官早已经不是什么背地里的稀罕事了。为了整顿规章制度，美国上议院的议员罗根贝利（雷蒙德·沃伯恩 Raymond Walburn 饰）奉命来到了此处，这令市长感到非常的恐慌。于是，市长决定将所有的违规行为都甩锅到一位名叫吉姆（Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom 饰）的男子身上。
一次偶然中，吉姆邂逅了从维也纳流亡至此的美丽女孩玛丽莲（菲莉丝·鲁思 Phyllis Ruth 饰），楚楚可怜的玛丽莲很快就令吉姆坠入了情网之中。这个突如其来的女孩打破了市长筹划缜密的计划，与此同时，吉姆发现，玛丽莲心里所爱的男人竟然是罗根贝利。

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?

　　二战时期，迪克西·杜根为支援战争，当起出租车司机，却因车技糟糕撞了富商罗杰·哈德森的车。罗杰是政府“一美元公仆”，负责战时女性动员工作，为赶广播直播，他替迪克西担责。迪克西一心报国，参加公务员考试后成了罗杰的秘书。为打发她，罗杰让她调研女性参与军工生产的障碍，没想到调研成果极具价值，迪克西成了英雄，还和罗杰一起前往英国开展同类调查。她一边要应对军火厂工作的未婚夫催婚，一边在战时贡献中找到自我，闹出一连串轻松搞笑的故事 。