he wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets, and a minor one at that, is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, most of the employees' anger directed at Merrick, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to go undercover working at the store to mete out the rabble-rousers. Undercover as Thomas Higgins, Merrick gets assigned as a sales clerk in the shoe department, where he is taken under the caring wing of his colleague Mary Jones, who sees in Higgins a poor man needing the guidance of friends. One of those other friends is Elizabeth Ellis, who Mary sees as a possible "Mrs. Higgins". Mary's boyfriend is Joe O'Brien, the chief organizer of the employees, four hundred of whom are following Joe in the charge against the store and Merrick. At the store, Merrick not only wants the list of the four hundred, but also wants to change those things he doesn't like at the store, chief amongst those being his shoe department section manager, Mr. Hooper. But as Higgins, Merrick also begins to see things a little differently, specifically from an employee's point of view.

1940年4月9日，二战德军兵临奥斯陆，在强敌压境、退位威胁之下，挪威国王哈康七世面临着一个艰难的选择，抗战还是投降，流亡还是退位，挪威独立后的首位国王将如何抉择？当时的历史背景又是如何？这将永远改变他的国家。

艾丽（克劳黛·考尔白 Claudette Colbert 饰）有一个显赫有钱的家庭，这恰恰成为她感情不如意的根源——父亲不赞成她和飞机师卫斯理结婚。艾丽一气之下离家出走，前去找卫斯理，不料途中钱财遭抢。遇上记者沃恩（克拉克·盖博 Clark Gable饰），沃恩得知艾丽是个不平常的富家女，确信艾丽非常有新闻价值，可以炮制出吸引眼球的新闻，便一路与艾丽同行。路上车前进遇阻，乘客得在半路住一晚旅馆，而身无分文的艾丽只能与沃恩同屋，并在床上用毯子间隔开两人来睡。 旅途颠簸，意外连连，二人共同经历了不少难忘之事。感情在渐渐滋长。艾丽的目的地就要到了，两人的心中都有些欲言又止的情愫。面对自己本来想要寻找的卫斯理，面对父亲门当户对的思想，艾丽和沃恩的感情不知走向何处。

老实勤恳的克劳斯是一名出纳，平日里，他最大的爱好就是画画，然而，克劳斯从来就没有想过靠出售自己的作品赚钱。某日，克劳斯遇见了名叫凯蒂的女子，虚荣心的驱使之下，他向凯蒂谎称自己是一名画家。凯蒂有一个交往多年的男友强尼，对于强尼来说，凯蒂不过只是他谋取利益的工具罢了，而克劳斯则成为了凯蒂的摇钱树。一直对克劳斯的身份有所怀疑的强尼拿着克劳斯的画去卖，没想到居然得到了美术评论家的一致认可，凯蒂更是声称自己就是这些画的作者。克劳斯向凯蒂求婚，却遭到了后者的无情嘲笑，一怒之下，克劳斯起了杀念。

雷维尔是名医生，他的妻子被杀害了，在葬礼上他遇到了负责侦探这个案件的警官，他追问警官何时破案。然后这个凶杀案最后却变成了没有线索、没有凶手的无人问津的案子，没人再管。雷维尔思念妻子也更想弄明白妻子的死因。一次尸检，他发现了藏在死者身上的一枚钥匙，这个死者叫乔纳森，死于自杀。他凭着这把钥匙，追寻一路，发现了很多的秘密，也发现了和妻子被杀案有关的线索。这时乔纳森的女儿出现了，她为了探寻父亲的死因也和雷维尔一起开始侦查，经过了很多紧张、扣人心弦的经历之后，雷维尔发现了惊人的秘密，原来乔纳森不是自杀，而是被他的女儿杀害的。当乔纳森的女儿知道雷维尔已经察觉时，便想要杀了雷维尔，却被雷维尔杀死。雷维尔进了监牢，再次遇到侦探妻子案件的警官，一切像是设计好的局，雷维尔落入圈套。