美国核物理学家彼得（泰隆·鲍华 Tyrone Power 饰）居住在英国伦敦伯克利广场的一座古宅中，这座宅邸是他祖先留下的遗产，一直保持着18世纪的原貌。彼得对和自己同名，样貌也相似的祖先充满了好奇。通过研究祖先的书信，彼得坚信自己将会在某一时刻穿越时光，回到1784年，也就是他祖先生活的那个年代。在一个雷电交加的夜晚，彼得不幸被闪电击中，但这一次却不同寻常，他真的回到了过去。　　通过祖先的书信和对自己祖先的好奇心，彼得最终经历了一场时光穿越的奇异经历。彼得将如何在过去的时代生存和适应，以及他与祖先之间是否有某种联系将成为故事的关键点，同时也探讨了家族、命运和时间的复杂关系。

曾经，拿破仑（马龙·白兰度MarlonBrando饰）爱上了名为黛丝蕾（简·西蒙斯JeanSimmons饰）的美丽少女，随着时间的推移，黛丝蕾对拿破仑的爱意日益加深，甚至不惜献出大量金钱资助这个她最爱的男bbb。然而，拿破仑很快就发现，黛丝蕾并不能帮助自己实现自己在政治领域的野心，转而开始追求名媛约瑟芬（梅尔·奥勃朗MerleOberon饰），悲愤交加的黛丝蕾怀揣着一颗破碎的心成为了伯纳达将军（迈克尔·伦尼MichaelRennie饰）的妻子。r之后，拿破仑平步青云最终到达了权力的顶峰，而伯纳达将军则率军公然反对拿破仑的统治。莫斯科一役后，战败的拿破仑被流放到了荒岛之上然而野心不死，黛丝蕾出面劝说，希望曾经的爱人能够放弃战争，接受流放。

A lawyer whose wife has had an affair sets out to leave her by flying to LA. He becomes ever more involved in the lives of a few fellow travelers on a journey that ends up showing him as much about himself as about the others.

The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

随着科技的不断发展，人类赖以生存的地球却受到越来越严重的污染和威胁。某天，一架巨大的飞碟出现在地球上空，引起各国民众一片恐慌，谁也不知道这个不速之客将对他们的命运带来怎样的影响。飞碟最终降落在美国华盛顿公园的中央，当地警察和军队倾巢出动。飞碟被全副武装的军人和好奇的民众团团围住，经过两个小时的对峙，悬梯从飞碟中缓缓探出。随着舱门的打开，一个身形与人类别无二致的外星人克拉图（Michael Rennie 饰）和全身金属的机器人出现在众人面前。这两个外星人似乎为了地球的命运而来，他们表示出友好，却未得到应有的回报……　　本片荣获1952年金球奖最佳促进国际了解电影奖。