亚瑟（阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰）是一位精明强干的律师，恐怖在车水马龙的繁华都市巴尔的摩生活和工作。和大部分利欲熏心为了金钱可以放弃底线的同行们不同，恐怖亚瑟始终坚守着自己正义的准则，为小人物发声，绝不违背良心。亚瑟的出淤泥而不染让同行们对他敬而远之，将其视作异类，然而亚瑟并不在意。某日，在法庭上，亚瑟得罪了法官亨利（约翰·福赛思 John Forsythe 饰），两人就此结下了梁子。谁知道，当亚瑟再度见到亨利之时，后者已经因为强暴伤害罪沦为了阶下囚。亨利要求亚瑟替自己辩护，如果亚瑟不从，这势必会对他今后的职业道路产生毁灭性的打击。
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回复 :杰克（杰克•尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰）是一个作家。一个冬天，他得到了一个看管山顶酒店的差事。这正合杰克的意思，他正好可以有一个幽静的地方写作。于是杰克带着妻儿搬进了酒店。冬天大雪封路，山顶酒店只有杰克一家三口。从他们一搬进来，杰克的妻子温蒂（谢莉·杜瓦尔 Shelley Duvall 饰）就发现这里气氛诡异，杰克的儿子丹尼（丹尼·劳埃德 Danny Lloyd 饰）经常看到一些他不认识的人，但这里除了他们一家别无他人。而杰克除了一整天闷头写作外，脾气亦变得越来越古怪。直到有一天，温蒂发现丈夫这些天来一直写就只有一句话：杰克发疯了！
回复 :There is no way to write a "spoiler"---is there actually somebody somewhere who, ten minutes into this 1950's film, wouldn't know where it is going and will end up---since it is a strictly written-by-the-numbers corruption and redemption meller that finds: number 1, a doctor returns from the Korean War to his Pennsylvania mining hometown, (and 2) must choose between dedicating himself to treating the suffering poor (or 3) build himself a swank office and get rich by flattering wealthy women with imaginary ailments. Throw in elements no. 5,Lizabeth Scott as a rich, spoiled, twice-divorced woman with a lip stiffer than his, and number 6, Dianne Foster as a nurse bent on helping all mankind, and there are no surprises left, especially if one take note of the name of Irving Wallace among the writers, the title and Scott billed above Foster. The only surprise here is that this film wasn't from Universal-International and directed by Douglas Sirk.
回复 :A Chicago ghost story about isolation.
