Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.

第一次世界大战期间，回国度假的陆军中尉罗伊（罗伯特·泰勒）在滑铁卢桥上邂逅了舞蹈演员玛拉（费雯·丽），两人彼此倾心，爱情迅速升温。就在两人决定结婚之时，罗伊应招回营地，两人被迫分离。由于错过剧团演出，玛拉被开除，只能和好友相依为命。 不久玛拉得知罗伊阵亡的消息，几欲崩溃，备受打击。失去爱情的玛拉感到一切都失去了意义，为了生存，她和好友不得不沦为妓女。然而命运弄人，就在此时玛拉竟然再次遇到了罗伊。虽然为罗伊的生还兴奋不已，玛拉却因自己的失身陷入痛苦之中。 感到一切难以挽回的玛拉潸然离开，独自来到两人最初相遇的地点——滑铁卢桥上…

泰山一家在森林里快乐的生活，儿子在湖底意外的发现了黄金，在简的影响下对文明社会产生了浓厚的兴趣，他带着金子离家去向往的文明社会购买飞机，但不幸遇到了土著居民，土著人认为村庄里正流行的温疫是鲍依带进村的，要杀他祭祀，幸好一个科学考察团路过并救了鲍依，但他们遭到了部落的反击，泰山及时赶到救了大家。科考队员艾里奥特和美伏特听说湖底有黄金，顿时产生了邪念，他们挟持了简和鲍依要求泰山带他们找到金矿，不料找到金矿的美伏特开枪射杀泰山，没想到他们返回城市时却遇到了森林里最恐怖的食人部落。

故事开始于一列飞驰的火车之中，精神科医生贝利（乔治·布伦特 George Brent 饰）在火车上结识了名叫茜茜（Olive Blakeney 饰）的老太太，茜茜告诉贝利，自己要去探望她的兄弟尼克（保罗·卢卡斯 Paul Lukas 饰），尼克刚刚娶了一个可爱的妻子艾利达（海蒂·拉玛 Hedy Lamarr 饰）。 健谈善良的茜茜给贝利留下了很深的印象，抵达伦敦后，贝利震惊的得知，茜茜竟然在拜访尼克一家人的时候去世了。之后，贝利见到了尼克和艾利达，这对夫妇诡异的相处方式让他不禁开始怀疑，茜茜的死并非一场意外。贝利决定展开调查，随着调查的深入，尼克疯狂的一面渐渐展现在了他的眼前。

1903年，在康沃尔郡，一群当地人发现一个水下城市，其历史可以追溯到1803年，它隐藏走私和水生生物的社会......

American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].

女出租车司机帕蒂遇到了一个奇怪的乘客，他头被打破了还忘记了自己的身份。正当帕蒂想帮他找回记忆的时候，却突然发现他可能是一宗谋杀案的凶手，然而事情并没有想象中那么简单。。。

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。