An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

萨姆·斯佩德（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）和搭档阿切尔在旧金山市开了一家侦探事务所。一天，一位贵妇（玛丽·阿斯特 Mary Astor 饰）登门拜访，委托他们寻找自己失踪的妹妹。他们立刻展开调查，发现这名贵妇的妹妹与一位叫做瑟斯的神秘男子在一起。本 来以为这只是一件普通的失踪案，但是事情的发展出乎他们所料。阿切尔在调查案件时被杀害，传说的瑟斯也相继被杀，警方由此怀疑起萨姆与阿切尔的妻子有染而杀掉他的合伙人。深陷泥潭的萨姆依然继续调查案情，他查出贵妇曾与古特曼等流氓倒卖过古玩，之后，古特曼又拜托萨姆帮忙寻找一尊雕像——被称作“马耳他之鹰”的无价之宝。萨姆开始研究起这尊神秘的雕像，结果发现真相就藏在其中。本片获得第14届奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男配角、最佳剧本提名奖。

倪匡捕捉觀眾明辨是非的心理，編寫成這部江湖恩怨片。鳳飛飛(何莉莉 飾)為報姊仇，發現兇手竟為未來夫婿金連白(南宮勳 飾)，不知所措。而殺姊夫之兇手蕭豹(翟諾 飾)與梁霸(王俠 飾)為除後患，與金夫人(林靜 飾)聯手對付飛飛，欲滅絕鳳家。飛飛怒不可遏，合父母之力將惡賊擊斃。片中武打明星陣容鼎盛，配合「十二金釵」何莉莉，倍添色彩。

影片主人公田所早纪的父亲沉迷酒精，母亲迷信宗教。在这种家庭环境下，早纪因醉酒后会变成怪物，行为怪异的父亲而苦恼，她在感受到母亲孤独的同时，在逐渐崩溃的家人中间，不顾一切寻找着未来。