Ernest Findlater dreams about a South Sea island and a girl he meets there named Lalage. Lalage develops a scheme to help Findlater kill his real life wife. On the night of the planned murder, Findlater discovers that his wife is already dead. She died of natural causes.
Is there life after death There certainly seems to be for Mabel Lederer. Her husband, Hughie, has passed on and with him goes Mabel Lederer. For Mabel reinvents herself with a new name, a new town and undertakes a slightly off-center new profession: "I dabble in the supernatural." This lovely adaptation of Shirley Jackson's unfinished novel stars Estelle Parsons (BONNIE AND CL...
Harry Parker in apartment 4-D reads a lot of pulp fiction and watches a lot of late-night TV. That lends an air of inauthenticity to the story he tells his wife in the morning about what happened at two A.M. It seems the blonde in 3-D needed him to play Sir Galahad. At two A.M., she has a man in her apartment. And he's dead. "Miss Elliot, I can't get involved in a murder," says...
一名男性骗子潜入基韦斯特，在那里他卷入了一系列与声名狼藉的当地人交织在各种政治阴谋中的激烈插曲。
故事发生在一个南部小镇的棉织厂，诺玛（莎莉·菲尔德 Sally Field 饰）和她的家人都在这里工作。这个工厂的工作环境异常恶劣，工人们每天都经受着资本家的无情剥削和艰辛劳动。面对这种不公平的待遇，工人们备受压迫和困扰。为了改变这种状况，总工会派来了一名经验丰富的组织者，希望能够协助当地工人组织自己的工会，为工人们争取更好的待遇和权益。然而，工人们对组织者的到来持有怀疑态度，他们心存疑虑，担心这只是一个无望的尝试。
组织者面临着许多困难和挑战。工人们对他进行冷嘲热讽，老板则用各种无理阻拦来阻碍工会的成立。看到这一切，诺玛内心充满了愤慨和不满。她是一个有着坚强意志的女性，对不合理的事物总是敢于挑战。受到组织者的激励和影响，诺玛最终选择站出来，成为了改变的先锋。
美国独立二百周年之际，精心筹备竞选活动的总统候选人，穿插其中的社会名流，借机扬名的乡村歌手，疯狂追捧的歌迷，冷眼旁观的BBC记者……各色人物你方唱罢我登场。在盛大的晚会上，女明星被刺杀使整部电影达到了最高潮。“你可以说，我不自由，但我并不为此而担忧”——在片尾冷漠的歌声中，镜头迅速地掠过场下喧嚣的人群，在那些呆滞或扭曲的面孔背后，是已被大众文化腐蚀而失去独立意识的空洞灵魂。
擅长处理群戏的罗伯特奥尔特曼以其出色的调度与控制力，在“喋喋不休”的对白与“混乱无序”的场景中，精确地描绘了越战阴影下美国芸芸众生的人情性态，并深刻揭示出普世欢腾气氛下的美国社会精神危机。本片获得奥斯卡最佳电影与最佳导演等提名，堪称美国70年代电影代表佳作。
