Prince Peter Karagin, an officer in the Cossack army, sees and hears lovely Lydia Marakova in the cafe Balalaika in St. Petersburg and wants to meet her. When he hears she likes to fraternize with a lower class of people, he gives a student 50 rubles for his clothing. She eventually accepts his persistant presence and they fall in love. Peter uses his influence to get Lydia an ...
In 1820, Jonathan Pride (Collins), a chance teacher from Boston, decides to book passage on a ship to go visit his relatives. However, he is soon kidnapped by a gang of pirates and force to work in the galley. When the pirate ship docks in the port of Las Palamos, Jonathan manages to steal clothes from one of the pirates and escapes. However, everyone in Las Palamos, including ...
Young, naive Luisa Ginglebusher, who loves fairy tales, leaves the Budapest orphanage to become a movie usherette. Soon she befriends paternal waiter Detlaff and not so paternal Konrad, a meat-packing millionaire. Uninterested in Konrad's rich gifts, Luisa schemes to be a "good fairy" and divert some of this wealth to poor stranger Dr. Sporum. But it's not that simple...
Peggy is a Follies dancer who forsakes her life of carefree attachments in order to meet her goal of marrying a millionaire. Alas, her elderly husband, broker C. Morton Gibson, is a well-meaning bore, and soon Peggy begins seeking entertainment elsewhere.
A year after their marriage, three significant events occur almost simultaneously. Peggy's former boyfriend, Paul Lockridge,...
二战期间，沃辛（理查德·艾因利饰）乘坐水上飞机前往非洲丛林中检查一个孤立但繁荣的橡胶种植园，回忆起昔日的情况，当时条件更加恶劣。影片然后闪回到1910年。
数百英里内仅有的四个白人急切地等待着河船 刚果女王的到来。威尔伯·阿什利（布拉姆威尔·弗莱彻饰）和他的老板哈里·威策尔（沃尔特·皮金饰）越来越讨厌对方。阿什利终于要回家了，船也带来了他的替代者兰福德（理查德卡尔森），为期四年。另外两个白人是酗酒医生（弗兰克摩根）和传教士罗伯茨博士（亨利奥尼尔）。
哈利和兰福德的开局很糟糕，从那里开始走下坡路。医生和罗伯茨竭尽全力让这两个人远离彼此的喉咙。当诱人的土生土长的女人 Tondelayo ( Hedy Lamarr )回来时，情况变得更糟。哈利作为常驻地方法官，之前已经命令她离开他的地区，作为一种破坏性的、不道德的影响。
Tondelayo 开始在 Lan...
