Walter Neff（弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 Fred MacMurray 饰）是一个成功的保险代理人，他在夜里回到办公室，开始在一个录音机上诉说他的故事...... Neff为了取得Dietrichson先生的保险代理权，来到了他的家中，Dietrichson先生不在，Neff遇到了Dietrichson先生的新妻子Phyllis Dietrichson（芭芭拉·斯坦威克 Barbara Stanwyck 饰）。美丽的Phyllis让Neff感到不自然，而她也开始说起她的丈夫的诸多不好之处。在第二次拜访中，Neff终于控制不住自己的欲望，愿意参与Phyllis的杀夫计划。Neff计划在Dietrichson先生坐火车的时候制造他失足摔下的假象，以骗取“双重保险”。一切进行的非常顺利，Dietrichson先生死掉了，Neff和Phyllis两人的爱情和金钱似乎都有了保障。然而，Neff的好友保险调查员Barton Keyes （爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）却觉得事有蹊跷，开始调查整个事件...... 本片改编自James M. Cain于1943年出版的同名小说，由导演比利·怀尔德和侦探小说作家雷蒙德·钱德勒共同编剧，获第17届奥斯卡最佳影片等7项提名。

蕾姬（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰）从来不相信什么狗屁爱情，她的人生目标只有一个，那就是傍上一个大款，一跃飞上枝头做凤凰。艾伦（拉尔夫·贝拉米 Ralph Bellamy 饰）是一位身患残疾的富翁，他对蕾姬的感情观不置可否，他知道虽然蕾姬嘴上视爱情如粪土，但这个世界上一定会有一个男人令她坠入情网之中。 很快，这个男人就出现了，他的名字叫做西奥多雷（弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 Fred MacMurray 饰），刚开始，蕾姬以为西奥多雷是指一个一文不值的穷小子，但之后她意外的发现，这个其貌不扬的男人竟然家财万贯，实现梦想的机会近在眼前。但很快蕾姬便失望的得知，他已经有未婚妻了。

乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，这时上帝传来旨意，派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店帮工。他很机灵，深得老板器重，同时也很招女孩喜欢。某日，老板接到爱子死亡的电报，悲痛欲绝，配错了药，幸亏乔治才化险为夷。乔治从小嫉恶如仇，尤其看不惯富人专横跋扈。长大后，乔治一表人才，准备去读大学。这时，他的父亲去世了，他子承父业，协助叔父料理公司事务。然而公司经营状况不佳，在董事会会议上面临破产。如果公司破产，小镇将会有很多家庭陷入困境。乔治力排众议，说服了董事会，但是条件是他要担任董事会秘书长。这与他的大学梦相去甚远。而且，此时他还陷入了对一个女孩的爱恋之中……

被解雇的报社女记者安·米歇尔伪造了一封信给报社，署名“约翰·杜伊”（即无名氏），信上表示对这个充满恶瘤的社会充满失望，决心要自杀。报社为此不得不重新聘用了安来调查此事。然而，没想到此事最终引发了一场政治运动……

皮特（查尔斯·科本 Charles Coburn 饰）是一名大学教授，一天，他奉父亲之命，来到夜总会寻找风流成性的表弟凯斯（詹姆斯·埃利森 James Ellison 饰），哪知道却意外邂逅了夜总会的歌女弗兰西（金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰），两人一见钟情，在一夜贪欢之后，两人结为了夫妻。 激情退却后，皮特开始为自己的冲动之举担忧起来，父亲是一个思想非常顽固的男人，绝对不会接受弗兰西歌女的身份，不仅如此，父亲还早已经为他找到了门当户对的姑娘海伦（弗朗西丝·默瑟 Frances Mercer 饰）做他未来的妻子。皮特屡屡想要向父亲坦白自己和弗兰西的关系，却屡屡遭遇失败，还让父亲和弗兰西之间的关系越来越差。

On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her. The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife. Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.

Russell gives a moving performance as sister Elizabeth Kenny, the dedicated nurse who crusaded for the treatment of infantile paralysis. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Rosalind Russell.

When a newspaper man falls for a record store sales girl, their whirlwind courtship does not prepare him for a life of laughter, romance and tragedy. He must learn the value of true love, or face failure like he's never known. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Cary Grant.

电影讲述，乔波拿马拥有过人的音乐天赋，他的父亲希望他在这方面能有所建树，但乔自己却希望能成为一名拳击手。为此他说服濒临破产的拳击经纪人汤姆穆迪给他一个机会。在汤姆穆迪专业的指导下乔迅速上升，不久就成为著名拳手。但是“打假拳”的问题开始困扰乔，黄金男孩该何去何从呢。

美国南北战争前夕，南方农场塔拉庄园的千金斯嘉丽（费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰）爱上了另一个农场主的儿子艾希礼（莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰），遭到了拒绝，为了报复，她嫁给了自己不爱的男人，艾希礼妻子梅兰妮（奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰）的弟弟查尔斯。 战争期间，斯嘉丽成为寡妇，失去母亲，挑起生活的重担， 不再是当初的千金小姐；战争结束后，她又两度为人妻，嫁给了爱她多年的投机商人瑞德（克拉克·盖博 Clark Gable 饰）。 然而，纵使经历了生活的艰苦，斯嘉丽对艾希礼的感情仍然没有改变。艾希礼妻子梅兰妮的去世，给了斯嘉丽一个机会，一边是深爱自己的丈夫瑞德，一边是心心念念多年的艾希礼？斯嘉丽会给自己怎样一个不一样的明天？

Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950's homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is "moving up in the world". She personally takes upon herself the task of pushing Bill's career along, even if it comes down to murder

A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer escape from the Mob.