The Benson Murder Case 是SS范达因的首部作品，创下了当年的图书销售记录，由此开启侦探推理小说的黄金时代。此部电影版改编忠于原著，也是威廉·鲍威尔第三次饰演侦探菲洛·万斯。

　　剧情　　莎斯、洛珂和波拉是三个艳丽而性感的模特，从小就渴望嫁个百万富翁的狂热梦想让她们成了几乎行影不离的好朋友。为了实现这个愿望，三人合资租下丹蒙克的公寓后计划通过筹办婚姻联谊会来发现身价百万的富翁。　　然而，三个月过去了，嫁个百万富翁的计划没有一个人实现。就在三人穷得靠变卖公寓里的家具来维持生活的时候，莎斯小姐带回一个叫杰迪的半老头子给她们带来了希望：从事养殖和石油业的杰迪邀请她们参加了全由富人出席的盛大酒会。　　酒会上，三人很快找到了各自倾心的大富翁。波拉认识了布鲁克，洛珂则结识了“独眼龙”——石油巨子斯托亚克。可事隔不久，波拉来到布鲁克的乡下别墅后竟然爱上了身无分文的护林员，而洛珂却在被斯托亚克骗往堪萨斯城的飞机上邂逅了四处逃避债务的丹蒙克先生。　　看着近乎一贫如洗但倍感幸福的波拉和洛克，即将与杰迪举行婚礼的莎斯也开始反悔，最终她嫁给了一直钟情于她的汽车加油员汤姆。

　　法国外交官托尔博早年曾经经历过一次火车出轨事故，因头部受伤得了失忆症。多年后，当托尔博成为外交新星的时刻，被一伙儿声称是他过去犯罪同伙的人敲诈勒索。由于失忆，托尔博并不知道自己是否曾经参与过犯罪，但他又该怎样摆脱这顶在他头上的巨大阴影呢……本片编剧巧妙，节奏掌握合适，层层深入的描述方式将观众牢牢吸引在这巨大的谜团之中，直到真相揭晓的一刻。

　　Nick和Nora 这对搞笑侦探夫妻档总是连手出击调查案件。这回他们要着手的是一位发明家失踪的案子，要找出为何会失踪，且失踪到哪里去了……？　　　　相当成功地将喜剧和悬疑元素交融在一起。William Powell和Myrna Loy 饰演的夫妻档，是影史上第一对塑造成功的屏幕情侣组合！本片导演就是影坛上有『一次OK』之封号的 W.S. Van Dyke，本片他只花了两礼拜就拍摄完毕！由华人黄宗沾担纲摄影指导。本片独有的喜剧悬疑风，也成往后这类型电影的祖师爷。Albert Hackett和Frances Goodrich 根据 Dashiell Hammett 的小说改编成剧本。后来还拍摄了五部续集。

　　The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

　　影片前半部看是一出荒诞不经的嬉闹剧，但在黑色幽默的底层却深深反映出了战争后期人们的厌战情绪，影片后半部则感人至深，可谓深具震撼力，那个象征禁锢的棕榈树的两次被扔进大海，正象征了权利的倾覆和向往自由的呼声。

　　以报社为背景的喜剧，由三十年代的四大巨星威廉．鲍华、莫娜．罗拉、斯潘塞．特蕾西、琪恩．哈洛联手主演，故事描述报社编辑利用他的未婚妻和前任记者去实施美男计好让一名富豪的女继承人放弃控告报社诽谤罪，不料计划走了样，……搞得好不热闹。全片剧情峰回路转，从头至尾的发展都捉住观众的注意力，导演杰克．康威尔也拍得流畅而紧凑，让四位大明星都有大展演技的机会，因而制造出相当高的喜趣效果。

　　Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.

　　Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. When the beautiful Mrs. Whitley reads that a new dream man will be coming soon into her life, she assumes he's taken the form of Lloyd Hunter, a handsome and dashing foreign correspondent who doubles as the neighborhood air raid warden. A frantic Bill realizes that he's going to have to keep closer track of his earthbound heavenly body if he's going to keep the prediction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

　　Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Margit has planned the wedding and the honeymoon - in fact, Margit plans everything down to what they will have for breakfast every day. The only problem is that Waldo is a milquetoast and Irene does not want to be married to a milquetoast. So she says she is in love with Charlie, a bohemian artist/producer who lives in a trailer behind Spike's Place. When Margit confronts Charlie about giving up Irene, Charlie sees that she is the one for him. To make everyone happy, Charlie will have to help Waldo get a backbone. Written by Tony Fontana {tony.fontana@spacebbs.com}