A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against the Black Hand who killed his father years earlier. Becoming romantically involved with a girl from school and meeting up with an honest cop also fighting the gangs, Columbo starts to wonder if there may be legal ways to defeat them.

二次大战结束后，海军战争英雄指挥官安迪.奎森（加里.格兰特）和两名同僚开展了一个为期四天的旧金山之旅。在这里，安迪爱上了造船大亨的未婚妻格温妮丝（苏兹.帕克）；而另一名海军英雄麦卡南（雷.沃斯顿）则想利用自己的身份巩固自己的政治地位。同时，造船大亨的女儿爱丽丝（简.曼斯菲尔德）也凭着一腔爱国责任渗透进来。

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator, which stops a dozen feet short of the main floor due to an electrical failure on a July 4th weekend. She rings her outside alarm, eventually noticed by a drunken derelict, who breaks into the house, ignores her plight and helps himself to various items and alcohol. He leaves with his loot but returns a while later with a plump prostitute and three teenage hoodlums, who proceed to terrorize Mrs. Hilyard as they wreck her home.