Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.
Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the good life too much to get involved. However, he is subsequently approached by Major Scully to look into corruption and the role of organized crime in gambling. Others are killed but in the end, Nick gathers all of the suspects into a room and identifies the killer.
学生安德森(克里斯托弗·里夫 Christopher Reeve 饰)在编剧上的的过人才华让如今早已江郎才尽的辛尼(迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰)又羡慕又嫉妒,安德森让他想起了自己曾经有过的那些春风得意的时光。在辛尼的指导下,安德森完成了一个名叫《死亡计 中计》的剧本,准备在辛尼家中进行试演。辛尼从剧本中看出了商机,他明白,如此完美的剧本,必定会成为圈子里炙手可热的作品。 辛尼和妻子迈拉(黛恩·坎农 Dyan Cannon 饰)决定设计杀死安德森,将剧本据为己有,幸运的是,他们的诡计没能瞒住敏感的邻居海格(Irene Worth 饰)和精明的律师波特(亨瑞·琼斯 Henry Jones 饰),眼看着安德森一步一步的走向了死亡的陷阱,两人决定向其伸出援手。