苏利文是好莱坞以喜剧走红的年轻导演影戏（乔尔·麦克雷 Joel McCrea 饰），但他不满现状，想将下个作品拍成反应社会底层困境的严厉题材。为了体验底层生存，他妆扮成身无分文的流浪汉深进官方，但不管他怎么测验测验，最初总是又回到了好莱坞。后来他碰到一个事业掉败的女演员（维 罗妮卡·莱克 Veronica Lake 饰），让她上车搭了一程，却被误…

Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in hot money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge,…

In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) were burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley. In revenge, Jennifer cursed all future generations of the Wooley family, that the sons will always marry the wrong woman and be miserable. In the 20th century, a bolt of lightning frees Jennifer and her father from the tree th…