6080This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.

蓋伊（法利·格蘭杰 Farley Granger 飾）擁有一段并不幸福的婚姻，他的妻子喬伊斯（凱茜·羅杰斯 Kasey Rogers 飾）是一個水性楊花的浪女，蓋伊對妻子的不忠恨之入80s。布魯諾（羅伯特·沃克 Robert Walker 飾）常年受到專橫的父親安東尼先生（喬納森·哈勒 Jonathan Hale 飾）的壓制，忍無可忍的他逐漸起了殺心。就是這樣的兩個倒霉男人，他們在一列火車上相遇了。　　互訴衷腸之后，布魯諾提出了交換殺人的建議，企圖給警方造成無動機的假象。蓋伊以為布魯諾只是開玩笑呢，不置可否，哪知道沒過幾天，喬伊斯竟然真的死于非命。布魯諾完成了他的承諾，下面輪到蓋伊了。