埃拉·雷恩斯

伍德罗·拉斐特·潘兴·特鲁史密斯（埃迪·布莱肯饰）因花粉热而从海军陆战队退役，他认为自己是个失败者，因此推迟返回家乡。在忧郁的时刻，他遇到了一群海军陆战队员，他们与他成为朋友，并通过编造一个故事，说他在战斗中受伤并光荣退伍，鼓励他回到母亲身边。他们让他穿上带有奖牌的制服，并在他的新朋友的推动下接受英雄的欢迎，当他回到家时，他将被一座他不想要的雕像永生，并写下关于他英勇战斗故事的歌曲，最终不情愿地竞选市长。尽管他尽最大努力解释真相，但没有人会听。

学士 Harry Quincey 是小镇布厂的首席设计师，他与自私的姐妹、迷人的疑病症 Lettie 和爱抱怨的寡妇 Hester 住在一起。他与新同事黛博拉·布朗的发展关系最终承诺幸福……被一位姐妹的被动反对，然后越来越积极的反对所挫败。哈利会采取绝望的措施吗？

牧场工人洛克林来到镇上开始他的新工作，但他的雇主被谋杀了，当地人似乎不太友好。

1902年，在伦敦不幸结婚的菲利普·马歇尔遇到了失业和抑郁的年轻玛丽·格雷。他们不断加深的友谊，虽然身体上是无辜的，但被菲利普的妻子发现，她用曝光和丑闻威胁他，驱使他杀死她。此后，财富似乎对菲利普·马歇尔微笑。但命运有惊喜吗？

当爱人出现危机，爱可以凌弱女子变得坚强。女秘书卡罗尔为证明爱人清白当期临时侦探，走进纽约的夜色寻找一位能够提供旁证的神秘女子。影片的一段长镜头中，他紧紧尾随一个不愿合作的目击者，直至后者在他面前命丧车轮。而这个女侦探以肢体语言色诱爵士鼓手的场景，则成了四十年代一个经典的限制级场面。

私家侦探 Frazee 在跟踪一名谋杀嫌疑人时，跟踪嫌疑人进入了一场扑克游戏。当其中一名玩家透露他知道一列丢失的装满黄金的货车的位置时，游戏中的每个人突然都加入了到沙漠中寻找宝藏的探险中。但是高温、沙子、风和个人秘密的泄露结​​合在一起，不仅威胁到寻宝，也威胁到猎人的生命。

Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used.

臭名昭著的马车劫匪雷亚农在挽救警长的生命时无意中被任命为副手，他必须在他喜欢的新工作和他错过的旧工作之间穿上两顶帽子。

Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.