簡介：During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys, a prominent Ohio family, and is forced to recuperate in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard and June Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.　　Meanwhile, Whiteside's spinster assistant Maggie Cutler finds herself attracted to local newspaperman Bert Jefferson. When she reads Bert's play, she is so impressed she asks Whiteside to show it to his contacts, and then announces she will quit his employment and marry Bert. However, her boss is loath to lose such an efficient aide and does his best to sabotage the blossoming romance...

簡介：瓊（貝蒂·戴維斯 Bette Davis 飾）是銜著金湯匙出生的千金小姐，她的生活雖然富足，但并不快樂，因為她缺少一樣東西，那就是自由。一次偶然中，瓊邂逅了名為艾倫（杰克·卡森 Jack Carson 飾）的樂隊指揮，瓊一下子被他的風度翩翩給吸引了，兩人火速發(fā)生了關系，并且決定私奔結婚。　　女兒的失蹤令瓊的父親感到非常的著急，他找來了技術十分了得的飛機師史蒂夫（詹姆斯·卡格尼 James Cagney 飾），委托他駕駛飛機將自己的女兒帶回德州。哪知道瓊誤以為史蒂夫是綁架犯，千方百計的想要從飛機上逃走，鬧出了一連串的笑話。禍不單行，在沙漠上空，史蒂夫的飛機發(fā)生了故障，一行人被迫降落在了茫茫的沙海之中。