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　　本片以一个鬼怪故事为骨架，叙述了五个鬼故事。建筑师沃尔特·格兰杰到郊外一个农庄去洽谈业务。他感到农庄像旧地重游，原来他做过一个可怕的怪梦，屋里所有的人都在梦里出现过的。当他向客人谈及这怪事时，范医生发表自然怀疑论的看法，从而引出每个客人叙述了—段自己亲身经历的鬼故事。影片的结局是原来这一切都是那位建筑师的—场恶梦。英国电影评论家狄妮斯·鲍威尔对本片评价很高，他指出，影片的“许多材料是专为电影而写的...　　五个故事　　《柩车车夫》的故事讲汽车比赛驾驶员休·格兰杰因汽车赛受伤，躺在病房里。半夜，看见窗外停着的柩车边车夫向他招手。第二天他见到—辆双层公共汽车的售票员正是半夜见到的那个车夫。他不敢上车，几分钟后，这辆双层公共汽车失事翻车。《圣诞节故事》讲有一年圣诞节，姑娘萨利参加聚会。大家玩捉迷藏，萨利安慰一个孤独哭泣的小男孩。事后，有人告诉她，小男孩早在几年前被他的姐姐杀死。《妖镜》讲的是琼·考特兰买了一面古老的镜子，送给未婚夫彼得。彼得照镜子时，反映出发生过主人谋杀妻子凶杀案的屋子。彼得的心理被镜子里的人控制，他动手扼住琼的喉咙。琼机智地打碎了魔镜。彼得才从梦魇中解脱出来。《玩高尔大球的故事》讲两个玩高尔夫球的好朋友，同时爱上一个女人。不久，其中一个死了，另一个同那女人结婚。新婚之夜，死去的高尔夫球手来“显灵”，搞恶作剧。《腹语家的木偶》讲一个腹语家被他的木偶蛊惑的遭遇。

　　George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Due to this stress, he gets black outs when ever he hears dissonances. When he finds himself after the black out in a different quarter of the town, he returns home, to read in the paper that somebody in that quarter was murdered. Asking help from a doctor at Scotland Yard he is assured that he has nothing to do with it, but he is advised to cut back in his work and get some relaxation like other, ordinary people. At a cheap musical he meets Netta, a singer, who inspires him for a new motive for his concerto. But Netta discovers that this motive could also be used as a song for her. The song gets sold, and she hangs around George to get more songs out of him. George believes that Netta is in love with him, and gets in an argument with his girlfriend Barbara, the daughter of Lord Henry, who wants the concerto for one of his souares. George has another black out, ...

　　女出租车司机帕蒂遇到了一个奇怪的乘客，他头被打破了还忘记了自己的身份。正当帕蒂想帮他找回记忆的时候，却突然发现他可能是一宗谋杀案的凶手，然而事情并没有想象中那么简单。。。

　　An English dowager's new secretary is drugged by her son and told she's his wife.

　　An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

　　

　　唐（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）都不知道自己能否称自己为一个失意的作家，因为一个作品从来没有被公众所接受过的作家怎么能是作家呢？为了排遣心中的愤懑，唐选择了向酒精寻求安慰，殊不知，酒精只会让他的情况变得更糟。海伦（简·怀曼 Jane Wyman 饰）的出现将唐从酗酒的泥潭中拉了出来，她的温柔和善解人意温暖了唐孤寂的生活，也令他找到了心灵的归属，他决定重新振作起来。　　好景不长，海伦的父亲对唐和女儿的关系十分不满，在他的眼中，唐只是一个一事无成的浪荡儿而已。感情遭到否定的汤再次陷入了酗酒的危机中，甚至动起了自杀的念头。面对心灰意冷的爱人，海伦能否再一次将唐从死亡边缘中解救回来呢？