马洛(迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰)是一名独来独往的私家侦探,某日,马里特(Douglas Walton 饰)找到了马洛聘他当自己的保镖,结果马洛却莫名其妙的挨了一顿打。之后,一个叫安(安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰)的女孩现身,她告诉马洛,他所遭遇的一切和她的继母格雷尔夫人及其所拥有的翡翠有着千丝万缕的关联。对翡翠深感好奇的马洛决定将这一连串的事件调查个水落石出。 在安的协助下,马洛对事件的全貌渐渐的有了了解,而隐藏在背后的,是安的父亲(迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰)。不仅如此,不久之前,马洛受雇寻找一个名叫维尔马的女子的下落,这名女子竟然也被牵连进了翡翠的案件之中。
At the age of 16, Martha Coolidge was raped by a fellow student. This experience, and in particular the emotions and rhetoric in its aftermath, forms the starting point for this Brechtian film, in which Coolidge re-enacts the event and places the creative process in the foreground.
From the beginning, there is a clear distinction between the fictional scenes, in which the actin...
A criminalist explores the background of a business in which the authorities, with the help of an influential corporation want to evict and demolish part of the city and build a new complex there. The film is about the will and power of the individual; the fight against institutions, the individual's engagement, and the decisions made behind the scenes.