汉塞克（伯特·兰卡斯特 Burt Lancaster 饰）是一位小有名气的报纸专栏作家，老道的资历让他的手中掌握着不少的人脉与资源。苏珊（Susan Harrison 饰）是汉塞克的妹妹，某日，她同一位名叫史蒂夫（Martin Milner 饰）的爵士乐手相爱了，汉塞克十分瞧不上史蒂夫，觉得他高攀了苏珊，于是，狂妄自大的汉塞克决定不惜一切手段，也要将两人拆散。
　　汉塞克找到了名叫西德尼（托尼·柯蒂斯 Tony Curtis 饰）的曼哈顿新闻代理，利用手段迫使西德尼成为了自己的“帮凶”，在两人的设计之下，苏珊和史蒂夫之间的感情出现了裂缝，两人最终分手。然而，心胸狭窄的汉塞克并不愿意就此放过史蒂夫，反而变本加厉，想要彻底毁掉这个年轻人。

　　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.

　　四个大学同学在雷诺赌场度过了一个愉快的夜晚，无意中听到一个警察说抢劫赌场是“不可能的”，这让他们当中最聪明的有钱人想到了一个完美的抢劫计划。他说服其他人加入，当他们听说这只是一个大学骗局时，他的计划是让警察知道钱在哪里。问题是，他的一个朋友在战争中头部受伤，不打算退一角钱。

　　Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike, takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting one of his correspondents, Fay Doyle, a teary, self-pitying woman who makes a play for him. Adam is torn between his loyalty to the newspaper and his girl Justy.

　　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.

　　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。

　　生活让野心勃勃的马戏团学徒蒂龙.鲍尔变成一个欺诈的艺术家和逐渐地进入一个假宗教性的印度教，他的生活从此就开始围着其导师旋转。与此同时，人翁斯丹并没有为五光十色的嘉年华会所迷恋而停留，因为他的心早就飞去了高档夜晚俱乐部......

　　故事发生在一座南方小镇之中，年轻的女学生玛丽（拉娜·特纳 Lana Turner 饰）的被害震惊了整个小镇，检察官安迪（克劳德·雷恩斯 Claude Rains 饰）接手了此案，并且最终将嫌疑人的目标锁定在了玛丽的男友乔伊、校长巴克斯顿和门卫维恩的身上。安迪一直野心勃勃的想要竞选州长，他将这起案件当做是自己平步青云的垫脚石，然而，这三个嫌疑人，无论最终凶手是哪一个，都不足以令这起案件轰动整个州，于是，安迪决定为案件再找一个嫌疑人，他将目标锁定在了来自北方的青年教师罗伯特（爱德华·诺里斯 Edward Norris 饰）的身上。
　　罗伯特虽然在这座小镇已经生活了许久，但始终觉得自己和这里的环境格格不入，当他盘算着离开这里，返回北方的同时，他并不知道，不幸的阴云早已经笼罩在了他的头顶。

　　Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.
　　When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.
　　The despair of the lower middle-class: A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.

　　出身于克利夫兰的杀手弗兰克（Allen Baron 饰）在圣诞前夕接到了一份新的工作，他再次孤身一人回到曾经熟悉的城市，这次的目标是二流企业的老板。弗兰克每日跟踪对方，寻找下手机会并托付别人准备手枪。沉默寡言的弗兰克拒绝与别人沟通，在饭店偶遇的熟人让他只想逃避，但旧日相识劳拉的出现点燃了他仅存的一点热情，不过弗兰克却无法让对方接受自己。联系人迟迟没能提供手枪让弗兰克一怒之下杀了他。惊慌失措的弗兰克致电雇主，试图终止合作，电话另一头却大为光火，将弗兰克推上了不归路……
　　这部电影始终贯穿画外音解说，是导演、编剧兼主演Allen Baron的新尝试。

　　才华横溢的表演艺术家安托尼成功的扮演了许多角色，可是到了老年功成名就的时候却找不到自己，他迷失在黑色的舞台上。他怀疑，猜忌，神经过敏，他在演死亡之吻的时候迷失在奥赛罗的险影里，黑暗中总有一股力量把他推向困惑的边缘。

　　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......

　　A man (Young) comes round after a car accident, and realises that a perfect crime is now possible: any movie with this scene can't fail. From this halfway point, the anxious mood of this rare noir thriller thickens fast. Jane Greer and Susan Hayward in turn tempt Young (a spineless louse) from his rich wife (Johnson). We know he's wretched, but is he guilty of murder?

　　身无分文的记者丘克（Kirk Douglas 饰）流落一座新墨西哥州的小城，他舌如巧簧向当地报馆的主编推销自己，宣称自己有制造新闻的天才。波澜不惊的小城生活让曾经供职纽约的丘克倍感无聊。这天，主编令丘克外出采访，丘克于路却意外遭遇一名小镇店主里奥被困山洞。丘克敏感的意识到这件事情背后的新闻价值，他迅速联系州长、工程队与医生。随着丘克的一篇篇报道，观看施救过程的民众陆续赶来，本欲离开的里奥妻子因为看到有利可图而选择留下，并与丘克站到了同一阵营，丘克安排采用费时的营救方式来维持事件的新闻热度。几天内人群不断涌入，营救现场俨然成为游乐场。丘克与纽约的老上司讨价还价之时，洞中的里奥却走到了生命的尽头……
　　本片获1952年奥斯卡最佳编剧奖。

　　改编自詹姆斯·M·凯恩的小說《Love's Lovely Counterfeit》，一个城市商人在爱上新当选市长的未婚妻时，卷入了有组织犯罪、腐败的城市政治和贪污。

　　故事从中尉查尔斯·梅森准备回家过圣诞节开始讲起，梅森所坐的飞机途径新奥尔良时因恶劣天气不得不临时降落，在饭店里他被偶然结识的记者拉到夜总会拉斐特之家游玩，并在那里遇到了歌女杰基·拉蒙特（狄安娜·德宾 饰）。在与歌女谈话的过程中，梅森得知对方真正的名字是艾比盖尔·莫奈特，是三年前的杀人犯罗伯特·莫奈特（吉恩·凯利 饰）的妻子。伴着阴雨连绵的天气，艾比盖尔一点一点向梅森讲述了她和丈夫是如何相遇相爱的，他们曾经幸福的婚姻又是如何染上鲜血渐渐走向破灭的。

　　故事从中尉查尔斯·梅森准备回家过圣诞节开始讲起，梅森所坐的飞机途径新奥尔良时因恶劣天气不得不临时降落，在饭店里他被偶然结识的记者拉到夜总会拉斐特之家游玩，并在那里遇到了歌女杰基·拉蒙特（狄安娜·德宾 饰）。在与歌女谈话的过程中，梅森得知对方真正的名字是艾比盖尔·莫奈特，是三年前的杀人犯罗伯特·莫奈特（吉恩·凯利 饰）的妻子。伴着阴雨连绵的天气，艾比盖尔一点一点向梅森讲述了她和丈夫是如何相遇相爱的，他们曾经幸福的婚姻又是如何染上鲜血渐渐走向破灭的。

　　In the Post-World War II, in Los Angeles, a criminal shots and kills a police officer in the middle of the night. Without any leads, the chief of the LAPD assigns Sgt. Chuck Jones and Sgt. Marty Brennan to investigate the murder and apprehend the culprits. When the dealer of electronics devices, Paul Reeves, is caught selling a stolen projector, the police identifies the criminal, and connects him to other unsolved robberies. Using the witnesses of his heists, they draw their face, but the true identity of the smart and intelligent criminal is not disclosed. The perseverance of Sgt. Marty Brennan in his investigation gives a clue where he might live.

　　Cette histoire sordide d'un flic de Chicago empêtré dans le vice est racontée par la ville elle-même (s'appuyant sur le fameux poème de Carl Sandburg !) durant 24 heures bien remplies. Remerciements à Martin Scorsese pour la copie.

　　Mike Lambert, unemployed mining engineer, arrives in a small town with a bang when the brakes fail on the truck he's driving. After meeting seductive Paula at the La Paloma Cafe, he finds himself in trouble with the law. On the basis of a few burning glances, Paula pays his fine and finds him a room, but her motives are not what they seem. Mike lucks into a job with miner Jeff Cunningham, but against his will he's drawn ever deeper into Paula's schemes

　　Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. Real trouble erupts when Harry hires out his boat to transport four men who turn out to be criminals on the lam from a racetrack heist.