影片改变自自然主义文学大师左拉的小说《衣冠禽兽》，描写火车司机雅克·朗蒂尔诞生在一个酗酒的家族，他因此总是神思恍惚，以为自己天生是个劣种，一天，他在火车上偶然遭遇了一起谋杀，心有异念的他对警察隐瞒了他看见同事侯保妻子萨维丽娜曾经出现在那个时段的事实，而在此后警方的询问里他一再为他们开脱，这件事让侯保夫妇和他成为了朋…

A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as All That Money Can Buy.

When the naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets the Serbian Irena Dubrovna Reed (Simone Simon) in the zoo, he flirts with her and they sooner fall in love and marry each other. However, Irena is afraid of an ancient course of her town that women can not be touched by a man, otherwise she will transf…

货车司机雅克（让·迦本 Jean Gabin 饰）出生在一个有着酗酒历史的家族之中，他一直十分的自卑，觉得自己继承了家族劣质的基因。某日，在火车上发生了一起谋杀案，雅克是唯一的目击者，他在现场看到了同事的妻子萨维丽娜（西蒙妮·西蒙 Simone Simon 饰），但是出于私心，雅克并没有将这件事情告诉警察。　　这件事情让雅克和萨维丽娜一家人成为…