在新英格兰的一个小镇上,年迈的弗兰克·斯凯芬顿(Frank Skeffington)是贫穷的爱尔兰移民的后裔,他正在进行第五次也是最后一次市长政治竞选——到目前为止,他是不败的——在他结束最后一个任期之前,他将退出政坛,身边环绕着他的长期竞选团队。尽管弗兰克的成功率很大程度上来自于爱尔兰移民对自己行善的支持,但他的批评者确实有,不仅是镇上的蓝血,还有那些认为他在一个为朋友行善的老男孩网络下运作的人,他的每一个行为都有自私的政治动机。还有其他人,包括弗兰克的儿子小弗兰克·斯凯芬顿,他对政治毫不关心,小弗兰克沉迷于自己热爱娱乐的生活。考尔菲德一家可以看到政治分歧的一个缩影:《晨报》的体育记者、弗兰克的侄子、非政治人士亚当·科尔菲德支持他的叔叔既喜欢他,也喜欢他作为一个男人和叔叔,而亚当的妻子梅夫·考尔菲德对弗兰克的印象与她富有的父亲罗杰·苏格鲁一样,他和...
Why Leave Home? is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files.
Kitty Collins and Flo Jenkins, a couple of jazz-age cuties with bobbed-hair and rolled-stockings, go in search of good-times and whoopee-making. The party they find also includes some out-of-town, butter-and-egg millionaires whose definition of whoopee is not the same as the one Kitty and Flo have. The wives of the millionaires also have a different-and-dim view on the matter.
Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've finally saved enough to return to the USA, when Chuck spends it all on a "lost" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long, a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari, featuring numerous burl...