Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced.
　　Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair:
　　Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior:
　　As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess."
　　The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida.
　　Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death.
　　To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels.
　　Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown.
　　Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.

A woman's idyllic life is shattered when her husband is killed in a senseless act of violence. As she prepares to take matters into her own hands, two unexpected encounters begin to change everything.                                    
                               The film is inspired by true events in the life of Joe Bradford.                                    
                               本片受乔·布拉德福真实经历启发。                                    
                               女主人公的生活在她丈夫的意外杀害后变得支离破碎，在当她决定结束自己的生命时两位意外来客改变了一切。

Claudeisaself-madehitmanwhogetspickedupbythebigboystohandleatroublesomewitness.Butthejobturnsouttobealittlemoredifficultthanheexpects...

　　故事发生在印地安娜州的伯里斯郊，唐（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）和妻子艾琳娜（玛莎·斯考特 Martha Scott 饰）幸福的生活在这里，共同抚养着女儿辛迪（玛丽·墨菲 Mary Murphy 饰）和儿子拉斐尔（理查德·艾尔 Richard Eyer 饰）。一天，当艾琳娜送丈夫和孩子出门之后，以格林（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）和他弟弟霍尔（杜威·马丁 Dewey Martin 饰）为首的一帮越狱犯闯进了家中。
　　之后，格林又如同请君入瓮一般的控制了家中的另外三人，他们的要求很简单，就是等待格林的情妇来给他们送钱。实际上，警方已经在追捕这批逃犯了，但他们并不知道这些犯罪分子们其实近在眼前。

　　在监狱服刑的5年期间，乔尼·科雷（Sterling Hayden 饰）想出一条绝妙的抢劫计划。出狱后，他集结一帮非法之徒，共同策划抢劫赛马场的两百万美元巨资，并且做到“无一人伤亡”。然而智者千虑，必有一失。乔尼天衣无缝的计划得以顺利实施，却被同伙乔治（Elisha Co ok Jr. 饰）的老婆谢莉（Marie Windsor 饰）打乱。她得知丈夫的计划后，联合情夫沃尔（Vince Edwards 饰）向巨款伸出贪婪之手……
　　本片根据里昂努·怀特（Lionel White）的小说《Clean Break》改编的，库布里克担任编剧，并请来著名小说家吉姆·汤普森修改了对白部分。

　　Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's marriage proposal, they must face Jefty's murderous jealousy and his twisted plots to "punish" the two.

　　艾伦（贝特西·德雷克 Betsy Drake 饰）在旅途中结识了名叫杰夫（罗伯特·杨 Robert Young 饰）的建筑师，杰夫曾经就差一点要和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂了，在这个节骨眼上，他的未婚妻因为意外去世了。自此之后，杰夫性情大变，喜怒无常，宛如患上了精神分裂症一般。
　　不仅如此，厄运似乎从此就跟上了杰夫，他接二连三的失去了人生中他认为非常重要的东西，还丢掉了工作。艾伦认为这一切是有人在背后捣鬼，当她想要找出幕后的罪魁祸首时，杰夫的心理医生告诉她，杰夫也许患上了非常严重的妄想症，如果继续和他接触的话，艾伦会有生命危险。

　　马洛（迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰）是一名独来独往的私家侦探，某日，马里特（Douglas Walton 饰）找到了马洛聘他当自己的保镖，结果马洛却莫名其妙的挨了一顿打。之后，一个叫安（安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰）的女孩现身，她告诉马洛，他所遭遇的一切和她的继母格雷尔夫人及其所拥有的翡翠有着千丝万缕的关联。对翡翠深感好奇的马洛决定将这一连串的事件调查个水落石出。
　　在安的协助下，马洛对事件的全貌渐渐的有了了解，而隐藏在背后的，是安的父亲（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。不仅如此，不久之前，马洛受雇寻找一个名叫维尔马的女子的下落，这名女子竟然也被牵连进了翡翠的案件之中。

　　老千约翰尼·法雷尔（格伦·福特 饰）来到阿根廷的首夜就遭遇了抢劫，幸而赌场老板巴林·蒙德森（乔治·麦克雷迪 饰）出手相救。约翰尼毛遂自荐为巴林工作，并从打手做到了经理。巴林旅行归来已为人夫，其妻吉尔达（丽塔·海沃思 饰）竟是约翰尼前女友……

　　巴特（鲁斯·谭柏林 Russ Tamblyn 饰）从小就对枪支十分着迷，十四岁时，因为企图盗窃枪支，巴特站在的被告人的席位之后，虽然姐姐露比（Anabel Shaw 饰）想尽了一切办法试图唤起陪审团的怜悯，但巴特还是被送入了少年教养院。
　　一晃眼多年过去，巴特（约翰·道尔 John Dall 饰）由一名孱弱的少年成长为了身强体壮的男子汉，唯一没有改变的，就是他对于枪械的热爱和痴迷。一次偶然中，巴特结识了马戏团的劳莉（佩吉·卡敏斯 Peggy Cummins 饰），一见钟情的两人很快打得火热，却因此遭到了马戏团主的厌恶和驱逐。就这样，巴特和劳莉离开了马戏团，化身为冷酷无情的雌雄大盗，踏上了一条烧杀抢掠的不归路。

　　影片从一名成功而美丽的广告公司负责人罗娜的神秘死亡调查展开，负责这个案件的警探麦克在调查相关人员时，从专栏作家华度的口中知悉了罗娜过去的很多事情，不知不觉对罗娜家中悬挂的一幅她的肖像产生了很多幻想。没想到罗娜根本没死，在一个夜晚，她突然出现在沙发上熟睡的麦克面前。大家发现的尸体原来另有其人……。
　　奥托·普雷明格导演的经典侦探悬疑片，影片透过风格化的叙事，紧凑的气氛、黑白鲜明的摄影、以及几位主要演员的精彩演出，构成了一部精彩的黑色电影。

　　The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.

　　After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

　　杰瑞（帕特·奥布莱恩 Pat O'Brien 饰）和洛克（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）是青梅竹马的好友，从小玩到大的两人之间感情十分要好，遗憾的是，成年之后，个性迥异的两人走上了完全不同的道路。
　　杰瑞成为了一名虔诚的神甫而洛克则加入了黑帮，之后，逐渐话不投机的两人渐行渐远。在复杂凶险的帮派争斗之中，小有名气的洛克成为了同伙陷害的对象，为了保护信赖的朋友，意气用事的洛克犯下了杀人之罪被捉拿归案，等待着他的，将是死刑的判决。在监狱中，洛克和杰瑞重逢了，回顾过往展望未来，两人不胜唏嘘。与此同时，杰瑞向洛克提出了一个请求，杰瑞知道，善良的洛克一定会答应他的请求。

　　一部描写盗匪的影片。汉弗莱博加特饰演一名刚服刑完满的犯人,遇上昔日拍挡, 此人由于身染重病,想在临终前联同他再做一次大买卖…

　　种族主义者比德尔兄弟，持枪抢劫了一个加油站，被警察击伤后在县监狱医院受监护治疗，他们不想要来自黑人居民区的卢瑟·布鲁克斯博士的医治。 当在卢瑟努力救他们的时候，兄弟约翰不治，狂怒的比德尔认定卢瑟努是谋杀者，事件迅速向暴力方向滑动......

　　约翰．赫斯顿导演的犯罪电影经典之作，他采用具有睿智洞察力的手法来探索一群珠宝大盗的悲剧命运。萨姆．杰夫饰演一名释囚，他召集了四名伙伴一齐抢劫珠宝行，准备在得手后销赃给一名律师换取百万巨款。当他们顺利劫得珠宝撤退时，却被一名看更破坏好事，导致其中一名歹徒在逃走时受伤。另一方面，出资赞助这次抢劫的赌场老板被贪污警察逼供，招出了集团成员的名字，他们乃难逃劫运。全片情节推展紧凑利落，每个角色均具鲜明个性，因而凝聚出强烈的戏剧张力。玛丽莲．梦露首次在银幕上扮演单纯而性感的情妇角色，从此展开了亮丽的星途。

　　过气演员诺玛（葛洛丽亚·斯旺森 Gloria Swanson 饰）已经将近50岁，曾经的风华绝代正在她居住的荒废豪宅里慢慢凋谢，身边只有好友马克思（埃里克·施特罗海姆Erich von Stroheim）伺奉。她没放弃重燃光辉的梦想，《莎乐美》的剧本正待编写，而逃避债务逃至此地的没落编剧乔（威廉·霍尔登 William Holden饰），正是这项事业的最佳候选。诺玛收留他住下，给他提供舒适的环境写作，并慢慢的倾心于他。但是，乔并不能接受这个青春已逝的妇人。他拒绝了她，并转过身和另一个美丽的女子谋划新的剧本，他们相爱，打得火热。
　　诺玛得知了乔的“背叛”，她卑微地哀求他，却动摇不了他渐行渐远的心，诺玛终于举起枪对准正要离开的乔。

　　Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janet's estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janet's home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game.