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影片讲述了女主人公娜娜（安娜·卡里娜 Anna Karina饰）如何从一名普通售货员走上卖淫道路的悲情一生。娜娜厌倦了售货员的生活，想要成为一名演员，可命运却让她陷入了出卖肉体的色情深渊。她越是深入生命的深刻意义，越是怀疑生活的本来面目。命运辗转，就在她终于遇见她的爱人 时，命运又再一次跟她开了场玩笑，死在了皮条客的枪下。看似凌乱毫无关联的章节，充满哲理如呓语般的台词，为了“拯救灵魂而出卖肉体”么？影片抛掷给我们的又岂止是这一个问题。

讨债人弗兰奇和苏继续从事他们最擅长的事业——为他们的老板汤米追讨欠款，欠债人都是来自各行各业的狠角色。他们受命前往拉斯维加斯向一个有着复杂背景的赌场老板收债，这个老板碰巧是苏的前女友。同时，一个臭名昭著的毒贩正在追杀弗兰奇和苏，为死去的兄弟报仇。面对四面八方的危险，这对好拍档别无退路，只能拼死一搏。

Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)　　See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

十七岁的亚伦·史蒂文是一名高中生，当他像平常一样在树林里走路时，却将自己卷入了一件五百万美元的银行抢劫事件。 亚伦藏匿在独木舟下，偷听到强盗的谋杀事件的部分计画，在混乱中他将金钱偷走，并且逃到他认为最安全的地方躲藏─他的高中学校里，劫匪在锁定的学校搜寻他的踪影并且立誓要消灭证据。 亚伦发现自己被锁在学校里，他努力又绝望地让自己和他的老师生存下来，因为这个精神异常的抢匪准备杀了他们……

维克托是个大男子主义者，在他眼里，妻子艾达所做的一切都是理所应当的。有一天，艾达被辞退了，心中更加无比愤懑，维克托的老奶奶和朋友们于是决定演一出好戏，让维克托反思自己过去的行为。

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.