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 這部在歌舞片發展早期拍攝的影片，堪稱是當時最為奢華的好萊塢巨制。影片由后來被譽為“爵士之王”的保羅·懷特曼領銜主演，還請到了一眾歌舞名手。片中的內容取自百老匯的經典演出，通過名家和管弦樂隊的出色演繹，為觀眾感受爵士年代風情提供了一次珍貴的機會。影片在當年獲得了奧斯卡最佳藝術指導獎。2013年，它還被美國國會圖書館列入國家電影目錄。

 The story follows a nameless murderer, wearing a nightmarish mask, randomly murdering people across the U.S. in an attempt to secure his passage to hell. A patrolman’s pregnant wife, a fellow police officer, witnesses the killer murdering her husband and seeks to bring his to justice

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.