沃尔特·休斯顿

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.

T•C• Jeffords是一个自大、冷酷的农场主，他的女儿Vency一直希望代替死去的母亲，获得父亲的爱与权力，直到一天TC带回另一个女人。Vency与父亲决裂，并最终靠自己的力量夺走了农场。

故事发生在1844年的美国康涅狄格州，出生于贫困之家的米兰达（吉恩·蒂尔尼 Gene Tierney 饰）收到了表哥尼古拉斯（文森特·普莱斯 Vincent Price 饰）的来信，尼古拉斯邀请米兰达去他家，担任他的女儿凯瑟琳（康妮·马歇尔 Connie Marshall 饰）的家庭教师一职。在米兰达的心目中，尼古拉斯一家就是上流社会生活的缩影，于是她愉快的接下了这份工作，动身启程了。　　哪知道刚到宅邸没多久，米兰达就听到了有关这里的恐怖传说，不仅如此，不久之后，尼古拉斯的妻子乔安娜（薇薇安·奥斯本 Vivienne Osborne 饰）便离奇去世了。乔安娜去世当晚，尼古拉斯便向米兰达表露了爱意，吓得米兰达退避三舍。此时的她并不知道，自己早已经被卷入了一个可怕的诅咒之中。

This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.

山姆（沃尔特·休斯顿 Walter Huston 饰）虽然有钱但过得并不快乐，他和妻子芙兰（鲁斯·查特顿 Ruth Chatterton 饰）之间的感情并不融洽，芙兰向往充满了刺激的生活，为了满足妻子的要求，山姆带着芙兰踏上了前往欧洲的旅途。在途中，芙兰邂逅了一名英俊的男爵，为了和男爵在一起，她无情的抛弃了山姆。　　伤心欲绝的山姆流浪在异国他乡，偶然之中邂逅了名为伊迪斯（玛丽·阿斯特 Mary Astor 饰）的寡妇。伊迪斯的善良和开朗深深的吸引着山姆，两人之间迸发出了无疑伦比的激情，可是，就在山姆想要和伊迪斯私定终身之时，被男爵抛弃的芙兰回到了他的身边。