Tom Powers（詹姆斯·卡格尼 James Cagney 饰）和他的好友Matt Doyle（Edward Woods 饰）从小就在一起厮混，老湿喜欢做些小偷小摸的事情，老湿为此Tom没少挨他哥哥Mike（Donald Cook 饰）的骂，然而Tom死性不改。Tom和Matt两人还结识了Putty Nose（Murray Kinnell 饰），一个帮派成员。两人长大了一些之后，在Putty Nose的怂恿下，两人和另外一个少年一起去一个商店盗窃，却因Putty Nose的出卖，两人险些被捕，另外一个少年则丧门。两人于是转而投靠Paddy Ryan，那时候美国禁酒令开始实行，两人和Paddy做起私酒生意，混得风生水起，还认识了一个帮派头目"Nails" Nathan。后来一战爆发，Mike参军，临走前试图劝Tom退出帮派，Tom没有听。等到Mike退役回家的时候，Tom和Matt已是帮派里面有头有脸的人物，也都有了自己的情人。随着Nathan的意外死亡，帮派火并就要开始了.....该片获得1931年第四届奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。
王仁甫
回复 :It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.
江山
回复 :1937年日本军国主义发动侵略战争，苏联空军来华援战，金角洛夫率领飞行中队胜利返航时燃油耗尽迫降乌江，为保他人安全壮烈牺牲。土家人厚葬了这位国际友人，谱写了一曲国际主义、英雄主义和民族主义壮歌
乔许葛洛班
回复 :这是一部寓言般，反浪漫的公路电影，男青年瓦尔特是个裁缝，每天帮着母亲缝制衣服，可是他向往外面的世界，于是他乘着母亲不备将母亲锁进屋子并偷了母亲的钱物找了一个哥们驾车兜风，在路上遇见了来旅游的泰欣娜和其女友，他们四人结伴而行，沉默寡言的两个男人和随心所欲的两个女人产生许多 戏剧冲突，他们一起住店，一起听摇滚音乐会，折腾许久以后，瓦尔特决定回家，回家后他若无其事地坐回缝纫机边继续他的裁缝生涯，仿佛一切未曾发生过。
