Fran is a housewife addicted to gambling. Her bookie threatens to tell her husband if she doesn't pay up a loan by five o'clock that afternoon. She needs to raise 25 dollars fast. She manages to scrape up five dollars and then tries to shoplift the rest. She is caught by a store detective. As they drive off in his car the detective listens to her story and offers her twenty dol...
科瓦斯基（Barry Newman 巴里纽曼 饰）曾是赛车手、警察和特技演员，如今在一家汽车服务公司工作。某晚他准备将一辆道奇“白色挑战者”从科罗拉多送往三藩市。出发当夜，他和一个老友打赌，约定在第二天下午的3点从三藩市打来电话。这也就意味着他必须在15个小时之内到达目的地，而车速则要保持在160左右。
科瓦斯基一路狂奔，很快就引起公路巡警的注意。他丝毫不理会警察的警告，凭借多年的赛车经验和高超的驾驶技巧，他甩掉一个又一个追缉者和挑战者。他的张狂激怒了警方，也引起了美国境内各界对他的广泛关注，而对他的围捕规模也越来越大……
西部开拓史（How the West Was Won）是一部1962年的史诗型式西部片。时间设定为1839年至1889年。情节是拓荒者普莱史考特一家人四代的故事，旁及各相关人事物；从中呈现半个世纪的美国西部历史。此片气势雄浑壮阔，编剧、取景、摄影、配乐、音效、导演、演员 阵容，各方面俱臻上乘水平。全片包括5个部分：《急流》、《平原》、《非法之徒》，由亨利·海瑟威执导；《南北战争》由约翰·福特导演；《铁路》由乔治·马歇尔执导。
故事讲述一家三代在各种时代背景下的艰难曲折，通过这个家庭从19世纪早期到1880年代半个世纪的迁徙经历，描述美国西部历史。他们从纽约出发，经历了内战，淘金热，路遇印第安人和西南部的流放者，经历各种艰难险阻，终于到达西部，并联合其他开拓者在平原上修建了铁路，把法律与正义也带到了边疆。
Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months o...
