A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
In this Samuel Goldwyn production directed by King Vidor, the studio's intent was to make Russian-born Anna Sten a star, but it didn't succeed. Sten plays Manya Nowak, a Polish farm girl attracted to Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper), a novelist with writer's block who has retreated to a Connecticut farmhouse to find his muse. Barrett's wife Dora (Helen Vinson) misses the city and ret...
法国公民冉阿让（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）因为偷窃面包的罪行而被打入大牢，遭受了非常严苛的惩罚，出狱后他隐姓埋名打算开始心的生活，但是在狱中负责看管他的警察沙威（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）并不相信冉阿让能够重新做人，所以在身后紧紧的盯着他。
一晃眼多年过去，改名换姓的冉阿让成为了德高望重受人敬仰的市长，一次偶然中，他的一个错误的举动导致了年轻女工芳汀（弗萝伦丝·艾尔德里吉 Florence Eldridge 饰）的死亡，心怀愧疚的冉阿让收留了芳汀的孩子珂赛特（罗谢尔·哈德森 Rochelle Hudson 饰），在这个节骨眼上，沙威再度出现在了冉阿让的面前。
