C. C. Baxter(杰克·莱蒙 Jack Lemmon饰)是纽约一个大公司的小职员,他的单身公寓经常被公司的高层们用去当作幽会的场所,Baxter也因此获得不少升迁的机会。Baxter暗恋着公司的电梯女郎Fran Kubelik(雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰),这天他终于鼓起勇气约了她晚上一起去看一出戏剧。然而Baxter等了一晚却未见Fran的踪影,原来Fran是公司的高管有妇之夫Jeffery Sheldrake(弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 Fred MacMurray饰)的地下情人,那晚他们还在Baxter的公寓幽会。Jeffery信誓旦旦向Fran表示,他将和他的妻子离婚然后和她名正言顺地在一起。Fran相信了,然而几个星期后她又从Jeffery的上一任情人知晓了Jeffery所说的不过是个谎言。另一方面,在一个夜里,当Baxter回到他家的时候,意外地发现Fran竟倒在他的床上,并且服了很多安眠药企图自杀......
本片获1960年奥斯卡十项提名,赢得包括最佳导演、最佳影片在内的五项大奖。
The adventurous Lady Edwina Esketh travels to the princely state of Ranchipur in India with her husband, Lord Albert Esketh, who is there to purchase some of the Maharajah's horses. She's surprised to meet an old friend, Tom Ransome who came to Ranchipur seven years before to moxia.cc paint the Maharajah's portrait and just stayed on. Ransome has developed something of a reputation - for womanizing and drinking too much - but that's OK with Edwina who is bored and looking for fun. She soon meets the local doctor, the hard working and serious Major Rama Safti. He doesn't immediately respond to her advances but when the seasonal rains come, disaster strikes when a dam fails, flooding much of the countryside. Disease soon sets in and everyone, including Ransome and Edwina, work at a non-stop pace to save as many as possible. Safti deeply admires Edwina's sacrifice but fate intervenes.
本片基于真实历史故事改编。1942年1月,日本战争机器的铁蹄席卷东南亚。在这里,有一个叫做新不列颠的岛屿上,有一座天主教传教站,这里的澳大利亚护士们克服种种困难的条件,悉心照顾手上的澳大利亚士兵。(文/life_is_good@YDY)
January, 1942. The Japanese war machine thunders across South East Asia. In its path,on the island of New Britain, lies a tiny Catholic mission station, Vunapope. Here a handful of Australian nurses take refuge with wounded Australian soldiers.
Sisters of War is inspired by the true story of two extraordinary Australian women, Lorna Whyte,(now Lorna Johnston) an army nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Catholic nun from country New South Wales who was stationed at Vunapope. Although they were two very different women, their friendship would survive the perilous events that followed.Sisters of War is adapted from wartime diaries and interviews with Lorna, Sister Berenice and others who witnessed these events. The story of their captivity, their extraordinary courage and their will to prevail has never been told.