路易斯（丹尼斯·普莱斯DennisPrice饰）的母亲出身高贵的阿斯特内家族，但因和一个意大利歌唱家私奔，至死都受到家族排斥。已经长大成人的路易斯深深牢记贵族亲戚们拒绝母亲葬在家庭墓地的嘴脸，又经历心爱的少女茜贝拉（简·格林伍德JoanGreenwood饰）因他贫穷拒绝他的求婚，于是着手展开他的复仇计划。他把有爵位继承权的男性亲属一个个用计谋杀掉，旨在自己可以得到公爵爵位，在杀人变得越来越得心应手后，连老弱妇孺都不肯放过，反正他总能制造各种巧合，从来没有人怀疑到他身上。但在复仇计划执行的同时，他也陷入感情困扰——嫁人后的茜贝拉和他藕断丝连，又有个家族内美丽的遗孀艾迪丝（ValerieHobson饰）爱上了他，愿意和他订婚，在路易斯得意洋洋继承爵位和举办婚礼之际，他的罪行似乎也要败露…… 少年皮普（JohnMills，TonyWager饰）父母双亡，依靠姐姐与铁匠姐夫生活，在闭塞的英国乡下，皮普受到的只是粗暴的管教。临近监狱的两名犯人逃脱，皮普出于善良向其中一个提供了食物，尽管犯人很快归案，但入狱前不忘提皮普开脱。不久附近豪宅内的哈维森小姐召皮普为自己服务，皮普一家视之为出头的机会，怎料哈维森小姐年轻时被男人所伤，一心只想培养养女爱斯泰纳（ValerieHobson，JeanSimmons饰）报复男人。皮普很快步入了宿命般的铁匠生活，不觉六年过去。一位神秘的资助人出钱令皮普进入上流社会，皮普经过在伦敦的学习脱胎换骨，然而他久久不能忘怀少年时的初恋爱斯泰纳，幕后的资助人麦戈维奇——当年的逃犯——此时突然出现，皮普决意同麦戈维奇一起离开英国，但警察早已监视他们多时……本片获1948年奥斯卡奖最佳摄影奖、最佳美工设计奖。根据查尔斯·狄更斯同名小说改编。 From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend Patricia. While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana and then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished days in London, he made love to his boss Anne but her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was not in his plans. Marcelle, a French woman living in Soho, put him on his feet with money, and he repaid her by stealing fifty pounds and running off. He met the wealthy Catherine at his flat where she came to be tutored in French lessons, and ended up marrying him. But, even at his wedding, he had eyes only for Patricia and, he tells her she is his one true love. 
