混上流社会的花花公子自认为如鱼得水，结果犯了禁，无论黑道还是白道的。警察调查他牵扯进的俩重谋杀案其实无关紧要，真正有趣的是他和三个女人的互动，她们都非常迷人。甚至出场不到半分钟的龙套女都很有特色。可惜结局莫名其妙。

　　An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news 24 hours in advance, the reporter goes about scooping all the other papers, picking sure-fire winners at the race track, and enjoying life... until he learns -- in advance, of course -- of his own death. Our hero's problem: How can he keep the future from happening?(imdb)　　主人公每天晚上都收到一份次日早上出版的报纸，他获悉自己在数小时内即将毙命，然而他却幸存下来了。（乔治·萨杜尔《世界电影史》）

　　John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.

　　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。

　　

朱利安（沃纳·巴克斯特 Warner Baxter 饰）是一位百老汇戏剧导演，虽然已经垂垂老矣，但朱利安依然渴望着能够导出一部完美的戏剧。一名年迈的富翁给了朱利安一大笔钱投资他想要拍的新剧，只因为富翁一直爱慕着剧团的女主演多萝西（贝比·丹尼尔斯 Bebe Daniels 饰），可惜对于富翁的付出，多萝西瞧都不愿瞧一眼，她依然痴痴的爱慕着曾经的情人。 　　紧张的排练期终于结束，盛大的首演之夜即将来临。然而，在这个节骨眼上，多萝西在意外之中摔伤了膝盖，无缘舞台。代替她的，是一个名叫佩吉（鲁比·基勒 Ruby Keeler 饰）的合唱团女孩，让众人没有想到的是，佩吉的演出居然获得了空前的成功。