一位丧妻的英国作家带回了一位年轻迷人的新娘来到他在西班牙的一所偏僻的乡村小屋。她很快便对她12岁的继子着了迷，并得知他刚因一些不可思议的违纪问题而被从学校开除。同时这个男孩却乐此不疲地利用并助长她对他的迷恋。显然他是个聪明但却孤独的孩子。但他是否是这个神经质的女人不切实际的幻想的受害者呢？他是一朵纯洁之花？还是表面之下所掩盖的毒蛇呢？

Of all the Fritz Lang films I have seen, this may be the one that I was least enamored with. Gary Cooper seems miscast as an atomic scientist (Prof. Alvah Jesper), who is sent to Europe by the OSS to rescue other scientists who are being forced to cooperate with the Nazi atom bomb project. During his mission, he becomes involved with the Italian resistance, falling for plucky G...

1942年，生活在斯德哥尔摩的瑞典籍美国石油商人埃里克•埃里克森突然发现自己上了美国的纳粹合作者黑名单，急于辨白。而这一切是盟军情报机关的安排，意在逼迫埃里克成为间谍，因为他可以方便地进出德国。无奈的埃里克只得就范，他开始公开表现亲近纳粹，甚至不惜伤害最亲密的犹太人朋友坎普尔。朋友和亲人们都疏远了他，但只有坎普尔暗中相信埃里克这样做必有难言的原因。

　　The last year of life of the Italian-French painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) who died with 36 years, was played by Gérard Philipe, who was lethally sick during the shooting of this movie and died shortly after its release, 1959, with 36 years - on one of the two diseases that Modigliano had himself and exactly in his age. Further, this movie was directed by Jacques Becker - after the sudden death of Max Ophüls. Becker, too, died only 2 years after this movie.

　　西班牙恐怖片大师Ibáñez-Serrador一鸣惊人的电影处女作（他的另一部经典是《谁能杀死孩子》）。片中众多美少女、美少男以及导演如何在佛朗哥治下严格禁欲的电影审查束缚中巧妙地表现强烈的性欲是这部电影额外的两大看点。