流浪汉Frank Chambers(约翰·加菲尔德 John Garfield 饰)在路边的一间小餐馆里,被美丽的老板娘Cora Smith(拉娜·特纳 Lana Turner 饰)所吸引,正好那间餐馆正在招工,他便留了下来,成为一名服务生。餐馆老板Nick年纪比Cora大得多,Frank见有机可乘,便多次挑逗Cora,最后两人终于坠入爱河。两人准备私奔,走到半路却发现从此没了经济来源,便回到餐馆,决定谋害Nick,制造Nick出了意外的假象,他们就可以获得Nick的遗产。第一次行动阴差阳错地没有成功。第二次行动,他们成功把Nick杀害,却被一个检察官发现。Cora被告上法庭。在一个律师的诡计下,两人逃脱了法律的制裁。但他们的好日子却还没到来......
Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends and past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stella, stays by her side, a close friend and nothing more. Forty years later, still trying to get over the news of the accident, Stella learns that the glacier has moved. Hiring a crew to help prospect her husband out of the ice, they find the body preserved and untouched. Stella views the body of her husband one last time.
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants to do is go up to the mountains and stay at the cabin her uncle left to her. The boyfriend tries to tag along, but she manages to abandon him at the side of the road. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.