Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) is a hapless oil speculator in South America whose misadventures reunite him with an old friend, Ward 'Paco' Conway (Anthony Quinn). Unfortunately for Jeff, Paco's wife is bad-news, man-eating Marina (Barbara Stanwyck), the lover Jeff ran away from years ago, undoubtedly knowing that despite his lust for her, she was just no good. And now Jeff loves an...
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, the tough cowboy Blaise Starrett arrives in the snowing village of Bitters with his foreman Dan with the intention of killing the farmer Hal Crane using the pretext of the barbed wire he is running around his farm. However, Blaise really wants his wife Helen with whom he had a love affair. During the showdown between the cowboys and rancher...
The movie circles around a man named Harry, an auto mechanic who is going through a nasty little divorce. When Harry gets fired from his job he starts really losing his mind by walking into a church completely naked singing Halleluya. He is committed to a hospital for sometime. Whe he is released his brother gives him a place to stay, a secluded rundown hotel. It is here that H...
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie.
本片以四对夫妻为主角，刻画了上个世纪五十年代美国战后城郊生活的真实面目，在欣欣向荣的城郊开发区，每个人都穿着光鲜亮丽的衣服，住着轩敞舒适的宅邸，过着看似无忧无虑的生活，然而在幸福的表面之下，每个人却都被各自的心魔与困苦折磨着，英国摇滚传奇大卫·鲍威曾在一封信中提到这部电 影“我某天晚上在电视上看了一部叫做“No Down Payment”的老电影，很棒的一部电影，但如果这部电影所刻画的美式生活是真实的的话，那真是太令人抑郁了”。
本片故事开始于年轻夫妇大卫（杰弗瑞·亨特 饰）和珍（帕特里夏·欧文斯 饰）搬进日升山社区，在那里，他们认识了克莱策夫妇赫尔曼（帕特·亨格尔 饰）和贝蒂（芭芭拉·拉什 饰），弗拉格夫妇杰瑞（托尼·兰德尔 饰）和伊莎贝尔（谢瑞·诺丝 饰）以及布恩夫妇特洛伊（卡梅隆·米切尔 饰）和莱奥拉（乔安娜·伍德沃德 饰）。大卫是一个工程师，...
