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.

　　故事讲述一名有良知的记者出庭作证后，怀疑自己冤枉了好人，之后在自家一直心神不安，接着撞见鬼鬼祟祟的邻居之后，又目睹另一起凶案的发生，自后携同当秘书的女友一起侦查。--甜蜜电影字幕组

　　An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

　　Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

　　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。

　　影片讲述斯蒂芬被关闭在英国的收容所里两年后被释放，他似乎有点神志不清，随后他在回来巴黎的路上，遇到一个间谍集团...

　　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。

　　Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. The fly in the ointment is shady Harry Wesson (John Baragrey), the gambler who inveigled Jenny into committing murder. The girl is torn between creature comforts offered her by Wesson and the promise of a clean life offered by Griff. This early Douglas Sirk effort contains a smattering of the stylistic touches which distinguished his later work.The screenplay was written by famed director Samuel Fuller, known for his gritty realism and hard-boiled style.
　　~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

　　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.

　　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。

　　前拳击手岛木让次（石原裕次郎 饰）经历了人生的大起大落，如今在某港口经营一家名为“礁石”的饭店。他每天等待遥远巴西的来信，那里有他的哥哥，让次时刻准备启程奔往那个自由的国度。只是，无数次的闻讯信件最终换来的都是“查无此人”的回复。某晚，让次邂逅一名形色慌张的女子，她自称叫早枝子（北原三枝 饰），是某夜总会的歌手，因失守伤害了对她欲行不轨的男人而四处躲藏，几欲轻生。让次收留了早枝子，短短几天的相处让他们彼此呼声好感。然而阴云突至，早枝子最终被控制她的黑帮所带走。与此同时，让次也从这群黑帮处得到哥哥的蛛丝马迹。
　　为了找到哥哥的下落，让次卷入了一个巨大的黑色漩涡之中……

　　老实勤恳的克劳斯（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）是一名出纳，平日里，他最大的爱好就是画画，然而，克劳斯从来就没有想过靠出售自己的作品赚钱。某日，克劳斯遇见了名叫凯蒂（琼·贝内特 Joan Bennett 饰）的女子，虚荣心的驱使之下，他向凯蒂谎称自己是一名画家。
　　凯蒂有一个交往多年的男友强尼（丹·德亚 Dan Duryea 饰），对于强尼来说，凯蒂不过只是他谋取利益的工具罢了，而克劳斯则成为了凯蒂的摇钱树。一直对克劳斯的身份有所怀疑的强尼拿着克劳斯的画去卖，没想到居然得到了美术评论家的一致认可，凯蒂更是声称自己就是这些画的作者。克劳斯向凯蒂求婚，却遭到了后者的无情嘲笑，一怒之下，克劳斯起了杀念。

　　John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.

　　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.

　　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?

　　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。

　　贝斯手克里斯托弗（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）与妻子萝丝（维拉·迈尔斯 Vera Miles 饰）过着平静的生活，虽然经济并不宽裕，但幸福的婚姻和可爱的孩子们让克里斯托弗觉得人生再无遗憾。萝丝需要一笔钱去治疗牙痛，囊中羞涩的克里斯托弗决定贷款，而当他拿着单据来到银行后，命运跟他开了一个天大的玩笑。
　　不明就里的克里斯托弗因为抢劫银行被警方逮捕，随着调查的深入，更多对于他的指控浮出了水面，虽然对这些指控毫不知情，但面对确凿的证据和证人，克里斯托弗哑口无言。在被保释后，克里斯托弗和萝丝委托律师开始调查整个事件的来龙去脉，可发现的所有线索都对克里斯托弗不利。正当夫妻两人开始绝望之时，事情出现的转机。

　　比尔（罗伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 饰）是一名职业拳击手，他和女友朱莉（奥黛丽·托特 Audrey Totter 饰）之间的感情十分要好，朱莉是他在比赛中的精神支柱。时常生活在窘困之中的比尔好胜心非常的强，因为输掉比赛意味着他将颗粒无收，所以他必须赢。
　　在一场比赛中，比尔的对手是名为奈尔森（哈尔·贝勒 Hal Baylor 饰）的强壮男子，在比赛之前，教练告诉比尔，这是一场被黑道操纵的比赛，在擂台上，比尔必须认输。然而，在激烈的比赛之中，处于劣势的比尔不愿屈服与黑帮的强权，最终靠着惊人的实力达到了奈尔森。比尔虽然赢得了比赛，却惹恼了一直在背地里操纵着比赛的黑帮。

　　George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million

　　A story about the struggle of the International Ladys Garment Worker Union (ILGWU) to unionize a New York sweat shop, Roxton Fashions, in the Garment District. Lee J. Cobb plays Walter Mitchell the owner of a company that is determined to keep the union out of his shop. His partner does not agree, and only wants the workers to have a living wage. He dies in an accident. Kerwin Mathews palys his son Alan, who comes back to New York after a long absence. He does not understand his fathers angry resistance to t he union, and sympathizes with the union.

　　在和律师狱友Tony Jardine一起服刑之后，私家侦探Bradford Galt 从旧金山搬到纽约，可是他发现有人一直尾随其后，而且可能还想杀了他，他认为Tony Jardine就在幕后操控。他将和他漂亮的女秘书一起，揭开这桩阴谋背后的秘密...