30年代的芝加哥充满了混乱,黑道横行官商勾结,其中,要数掌握着私酒市场命脉的黑帮老大卡彭(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)的势力最为强大。即使在这样黑暗的环境中,联邦探员纳斯(凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰)也依然怀抱着惩奸除恶的理想, 可是很快,现实便教会了他,在这个世界里,谁才是老大。
在老警探马龙(肖恩·康纳利 Sean Connery 饰)的帮助下,纳斯重拾了自信,他组织了一个专案小组,专门调查和打击卡彭的犯罪事业。在纳斯的努力下,小组的行动初显成效,可随之而来的,就是来自卡彭的威胁和迫害。组员被杀,马龙受伤,这一切的一切都不能使纳斯消沉,反而更加坚定了他除掉卡彭的决心,一场激烈的较量在正义和邪恶之间拉开了帷幕。
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.
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Born in a small town in the countryside surrounding Pistoia, Adriana is an attractive young girl who counts on using her looks to go places in the entertainment business in Rome. Moving to the capital, she works first of all in a hairdressing salon, then in a small cinema where she manages to get a job working in fancy dress. Meantime, she socializes with young men of the upper middle classes, who take her to parties and out on the town with the sole aim of taking advantage of her. Adriana knows their game, but plays along. In the meantime, she meets an agent called Cianfanna, a modest money-grubber who introduces her to a journalist friend of his so he can write an article on her. Having thus launched her career in advertising, Adriana decides to go home to visit her parents. Once home, however, she is distraught to learn of the death of her sister. Returning to Rome, she takes acting lessons, but during one lesson she suddenly faints: she is pregnant, with no idea of who the father of her child is. The days go by and Adriana tries to forget about her pregnancy, while sleeping with an increasingly long list of lovers. And yet, despite the fact these encounters are often less than enjoyable, at one point she actually falls in love: his name is Antonio and he's a decent young man from a respectable family, but still in love with a former girlfriend he is unable to forget…