1812年，拿破仑的军队控制大部分的欧洲国家。在为数不多未被征服的国家中，俄国打算联合奥地利一起进行殊死抵抗。贵族安德烈公爵（梅尔·弗尔 Mel Ferrer 饰）就是这样怀揣一腔抱负的俄国军官。然而安德烈的挚友皮埃尔公爵（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）却毫不关心战事。他在父亲临终前成为遗产继承人，与贵族之女海伦（安妮塔·艾克伯格 Anita Ekberg 饰）结婚，却在婚后不久发现性格不合而分居。安德烈战役失败被释放归家看望难产而死的妻子。几个月后，彼埃尔与罗斯托夫伯爵一家在去打猎，叫上了安德烈。安德烈对伯爵的女儿娜塔莎（奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰）一见钟情。不久，娜塔莎接受了安德烈的求婚，然而安德烈很快重返军队。海伦的弟弟阿纳托里趁虚而入，骗得娜塔莎的爱，唆使娜塔莎与他私奔。俄法战争开始，娜塔莎遇到了深受重伤的安德烈，安德烈在临死前原谅了娜塔莎的背叛。战争结束后，皮埃尔回到了莫斯科，与娜塔莎结合在了一起。

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

上个世纪三、四十年代，一个在苏联莫斯科搜集新闻的美国记者，无奈被迫下要帮助一个美丽的共产党女人离开这个国家……

所罗门王与雪芭女王之间的故事，是圣经电影经常拍摄的题材。大导演金．维多执导的这个版本只是中规中矩，因男主角泰隆．鲍华在演出中途去世，乃由尤．伯连纳取代重拍，细心的观众或许可以看到所罗门王在近景和远景之中会出现不同的体型。剧情描述以色列王子所罗门王与弟弟阿多奈贾正准备进攻埃及时，雪芭女王前来离间，一方面用美色勾引所罗门，另一方面让阿多奈贾意图谋夺大卫王病逝后遗下的皇位。两兄弟为此反目，上帝亦以神力毁坏所罗门的神庙来表示他的愤怒。

第一次世界大战的末期，美国派兵赴欧洲参战，富家子弟吉姆(约翰·吉尔伯特 饰)也加入了军队，在部队中跟建筑工人出身的斯利姆和酒保布尔很快成为了好友。部队在法国登陆，驻扎在一个小村庄里。在那里，吉姆认识了法国村姑梅丽桑德(蕾妮·阿多莉 饰)，两人很快燃起了爱火。不久，部队奉命开赴前线，吉姆被迫离去。梅丽桑德在军用卡车后紧追不舍，吉姆脱下军靴抛给她，表达自己对她的爱意。　　在前线，炮火密集，吉姆、斯利姆和布尔躲在炮弹坑中十分着急。经过抽签，由斯利姆冲出坑外对付敌人的大炮。炮声停止了，但斯利姆一直没有回来。吉姆十分担心，往敌阵中寻找，果然发现了斯利姆的尸体。　　美军进行大规模反攻，吉姆奋勇作战，结果因腿部中弹而住进野战医院。在那里，他听说梅丽桑德所在的村庄处境十分危险，于是偷偷溜出医院赶到村庄，却发现该地已成一片废墟……

On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.　　The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.　　Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.