尼克(艾伦•艾克哈特 Aaron Eckhart 饰)是这个世界上最赚钱也最富有争议的行业――烟草业 的代言人。他每天不仅要像推销员一样用三寸不烂之舌去说服人们抽烟,还要不得不变着法子去对付禁烟团体、环保团体和科学团体的抗议,在政府和参议员中想尽办法为烟草业谋取最大利 益。
尼克还有两个知心朋友――为酒业代言的波利(玛丽亚•贝罗 Maria Bello 饰)和为军火业代言的鲍比(大卫•科恩查内 David Koechner 饰)。相同的行业性质让三人成为无话不谈的密友,经常在一起交流怎样对付环保团体等各种社团的抗议、如何在政府、参议员中周旋的诀窍。
在政治和商业互相交错的舞台上,他们上演了一出又一出好戏。
泰瑞(琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰)曾经也有过美满的家庭和幸福的人生,可是,酗酒的恶习让她的脾气愈发暴躁,性格愈加乖僻,最终,忍受妻子多年的丈夫格瑞(Danny Webb 饰)选择了离开。人到中年却遭到了丈夫的抛弃,泰瑞的精神陷入了崩溃之中,无所适从的她只能借助酒精麻痹自己的神经,但这只会让事情变得越来越糟,泰瑞和四个女儿之间的关系也因此跌入了冰点。
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police. When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. The despair of the lower middle-class A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.
刚从监狱释放出来的Tom Joad (亨利·方达 Henry Fonda饰)回到俄克拉荷马的家的时候却发现原来的家里已经空无一人,打听之下才从农民Jim Casy(约翰·卡拉丁 John Carradine饰)口中得知,随着工业的发展,当地的农民们都被迫离开该地。Tom和Jim在Tom的叔父家里找到了Tom的家人,一家人决定到加利福尼亚去寻找新的工作。一家人把所有的行李都放在一辆卡车上便出发了。路上,Tom的祖母去世了。他们发现了一个地方,专门召集像他们这样的人在那里工作,他们在那里安顿了下来。然而Jim却意外死亡,Tom为了给他报仇也杀了人,只能匆匆逃亡。一家人只能离开,去寻找下一个安身的地方,无家可归的农民们到底路在何方.....
本片改编自斯坦贝克的同名小说,获1941年奥斯卡最佳导演奖。