Former war hero Nikki's peaceful life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.

 改編自賽珍珠的普立茲獎小說，是好萊塢在三十年代開始注意東方題材的代表性作品。影片雖是描寫中國農村夫婦的悲劇故事，但主角均由美國人扮演，導演悉尼．弗蘭克林也采取西方古典電影的風格來處理，在制作上相當嚴謹認真。劇情描寫保羅．茂尼與路易絲．萊娜本來是貧困的農民，面對饑荒的威脅甚至以烤土充饑。后來茂尼得到了一筆財富，竟整天花天酒地迷戀情婦，萊娜只有發揮賢妻的耐性期待丈夫浪子回頭。今天看來類似故事已顯得老套，但本片的拍攝與特技表現杰出，路易絲．萊娜亦獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角獎。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　故事發生在1941年，希特勒支持的羅馬尼亞鐵衛軍到處殘害人民，迫害共產黨員，陰謀進行顛覆，取代安東尼斯庫政權，其中鐵衛軍隊長巴拉班尤其嗜殺成性。安東尼斯庫政權保安機關的警長（后升為警察總監）莫多萬在羅馬尼亞共產黨支持下,單槍匹馬深入虎穴和以巴拉班為首的鐵衛軍展開血腥斗殺......