Woman (segment "The Invaders")
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Mrs. Blair
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Hercule's Wife
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
The Goose
돼지 윌버는 함께 태어난 형제들 중 가장 작다는 이유로 농장 주인에게 죽음을 당할 뻔 한다. 농장 주인의 딸 펀은 아빠를 설득해 윌버를 애완돼지로 정성껏 키운다. 하지만 윌버는 펀의 삼촌 주커만씨의 농장으로 팔려간다. 펀을 그리워하던 윌버는 어느 날 농장에 살고 있는 양에게 호감을 갖는다. 그렇지만 양은 돼지 윌버와 자신은 격이 다르다며 친구가 되기를 거부한다. 돼지는 크리스마스 때 베이컨이나 햄으로 만들어져야 하기 때문에 도살되어야 한다는 것이다. 겁에 질려 벌벌 떠는 윌버. 그때 누군가의 목소리가 들린다. "내가 너의 친구가 되어줄게. 내가 도와줄게"하며윌버 곁에 나타난 커다란 회색 거미 샬롯. 윌버는 샬롯에게 자신의 처지를 하소연하며 도움을 청한다. 샬롯은 불안해하는 윌버에게 힘닿는 데 까지 도와 줄 것을 약속한다. 펀이 주커만씨의 농장을 찾던 날, 알에서 부화한 일곱 마리의 새끼거위들이 태어난다. 그 중 덩치가 가장 작은 새끼거위 제프리 역시 윌버와 친구가 된다. 이제 윌버는 새 친구들과 함께 행복한 나날을 보내게 되는데...
Bronsky
A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
Grandmother
After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
Delilah Charles
The stern matriarch of a family that lives in a creepy mansion finds that a killer is hiding in the house, searching for a $500,000 fortune rumored to be hidden there and chopping off the heads of anyone who gets in the way.
Mrs. Pringle
Three kids think they see a sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove, and set out to find what's behind the mystery.
Marlene
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
Grandma Duden
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Sister Alma
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Lisa's Mother
Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business into bankruptcy and his high school sweetheart has married another man. It is evident his small town has little to offer him except the hard-working life of his father, while the broader world has limited opportunities for a man who left school after the third grade.
Chantelle
The famous lover Jean Navarro arrives at the castle of a marquis. This is a vulgar bon vivant who has been married to the young Chantelle for a short time. At lunch the Marquis falls asleep and Chantelle goes into the garden with Jean, shows him the roses, the stables and the summer house and shortly afterwards confesses her love to him. Jean asks her to do three things as proof of her affection: the tail feathers of her husband's favorite bird, the marquis's whiskers and one of his teeth.
The Red Queen
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Sister Cluny
빌보드 차트 1위곡 'Dominique'을 불러 '노래하는 수녀(The Singing Nun)'로 알려져 있는 벨기에 출신의 수녀 자닌 데케르(Jeanine Deckers)의 이야기를 담은 작품.
Velma Cruther
1927년, 탐욕에 사로잡힌 샬롯의 아버지는 자신의 재산을 샬롯에게만 물려주려 한다. 이를 위해 샬롯의 연인 존 메이휴 등 그녀에게 접근하는 모든 사람을 가로막는다. 그리고 아버지가 세상을 떠나고 36년이 지난 지금, 샬롯은 집에 틀어박혀 은둔자처럼 혼자 살고 있다. 하지만 샬롯이 36년 전 존 메이휴를 잔인하게 살해했다는 의심과 소문은 계속해서 이어지고 있다.
Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Rebecca Prescott
프레스코드 집안의 아들 제브는 어머니의 반대를 무릅 쓰고 북군에 지원한다. 그는 싸움터에서 남군의 탈주병을 알게 되지만 북군 사령관 샤만 장군은 탈주병이 저격하려 하기 때문에 부득이 대검으로 찌르고 마는데...
Maria Lombardo
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
Judge Peterson
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit and settles him into Paradise Village. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
Mrs. Eleanor Delaney
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
Mrs. Snow
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Cornelia van Gorder
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
Cornelia Nelson
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
Vassilissa Mironova
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Ellen Shawnessy
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Queen Elizabeth I
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Self
MGM short that looks at the behind the scenes production of Raintree County.
Nellie Neilson
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920's stage star Jeanne Eagels.
Mrs. Samuel
범죄자인 제시와 프랭크 형제는 동료들과 함께 미네소타의 노스필드에서 은행을 털려고 한다. 그런데 갑작스러운 총격전으로 제시와 프랭크는 동료들을 잃고, 두 사람은 몸을 숨긴다. 도주하는 동안, 제시와 프랭크 형제는 고향 미주리에서의 평화로웠던 지난날을 떠올려본다. 노스필드에서의 실패 이후 몰락한 전설의 ‘제임스 갱단’의 이야기를 다룬 수작. 꽃 피기 시작한 서부영화 장르에서 ‘제임스 갱단’의 이야기는 굉장히 매력적인 소재임이 분명했는데, 헨리 킹의 (1939)를 비롯해, 레이는 물론 프리츠 랑, 새뮤얼 풀러와 같은 거장들도 ‘제임스 갱단’을 작품의 소재로 삼았다. 레이는 갱단의 몰락을 가져온 사건에서부터 과거로 거슬러올라가는 참신한 시점을 선보인다. (2013 영화의 전당 - 세계영화사의 위대한 유산 - 월드시네마 X)
Hannah Lessing
A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
Countess Lavaliere
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Mrs. Matilda Kingsley
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
Bertha Parchman
In 1941, prostitute Mamie Stover (Jane Russell) has no choice but to flee San Francisco when the police turn on her and want her out of town. Figuring Hawaii would be a great place to begin anew, Stover books a trip aboard a Honolulu-bound boat, where she happens to meet writer Jim Blair (Richard Egan), who is quite taken with the former streetwalker. However, when the ship reaches Hawaii, Stover soon falls back into her old ways and begins working at a nightclub, much to Blair's dismay.
Queen Maria Dominika
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Hunlun
몽골족 족장 테무진은 어렸을때 아버지가 타타르 족장에게 독상당한 후 흩어진 부족민을 모아 부족의 중흥을 꾀하던 중 메르키트 족장에게 시집가던 타타르 족장의 아름다운 딸 보타이에게 마음을 빼앗기게 되어 결혼 행렬을 습격, 보타이를 취한다. 보타이를 되찾으려는 타타르족의 습격을 받아 보타이는 타타르족에게 돌아가고 테무진도 포로가 되지만 테무진을 사랑하게 된 보타이는 자신의 부족을 배신한다.
( 이 영화는 핵폭탄 실험 장소인 유타주 근처에서 촬영되었는데, 이 때문에, 웨인, 감독 딕 포웰, 수잔 헤이워스, 아그네스 무어헤드가 이른바 암으로 사망하는데 영향을 미쳤다고 전해진다. )
Miss Hattie
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...
Sara Warren
평온한 삶을 살던 여자 주인공이 다른 세계에 소속된 남자 주인공을 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 둘은 결혼하고 싶어하지만 주변 사람들의 만류 때문에 둘의 사랑은 위기에 처하게 된다. 이 영화의 여자 주인공 캐리는 대학생 남매를 두고 있는 상류 사회 출신의 과부이고 남자 주인공 론은 괜히 소로 흉내를 내며 끝도 없이 멋있는 척하는 15살 연하의 근육질 정원사이다.
Beryl Sigman
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
Aggie (Kildare's governess)
1847년 네덜란드인들이 남아프리카에 자유식민지를 개척하던 시기 폴 반 리백(타이론 파워)은 그곳 자위대를 지휘하고 있었다. 어느날 폴은 아일랜드로 말을 사러 오는데, 말의 주인은 캐시 오닐(수잔 헤이워드)이었다. 둘은 첫눈에 반해 사랑을 나눴지만 폴은 남아프리카로 돌아가야 했고, 그 위험한 땅에 캐시를 데려갈 수 없어 둘은 헤어진다. 이후 캐시는 자신에게 오랫동안 구애해 온 숀 킬데어(존 저스틴)와 결혼하였다. 반년 후 아일랜드에 큰 기근이 들어 땅은 황폐해졌고, 캐시는 새로운 땅을 찾아 남아프리카로 이주할 것을 결심하고 남편과 함께 배에 오른다. 아프리카의 케이프타운에 도착한 캐시 일가는 개척지인 호픈계곡으로 떠나는 이민단에 합류하고, 줄루족이 출몰하는 8백리 밀림 속으로 길을 떠난다. 어느날 줄루족의 습격을 받아 전멸하려는 순간, 폴의 군대가 나타나 캐시 일행은 구출되었지만, 그 와중에 캐시의 남편 숀이 목숨을 잃는다. 한편 이민단의 안내를 맡은 커트는 캐시에게 반하여 폴과 날을 세운다. 호픈계곡에 도착한 폴과 캐시는 결혼하여 농장을 경영하지만 폴은 캐시의 반대에도 불구하고 자위대로 돌아가고, 캐시는 폴과의 사이에서 생긴 아들을 낳는다. 시간이 흘러 깡패 두목이 된 커트 일당과 줄루족을 진압한 폴은 캐시와 재회한다. (출처 : 김승경(영화사연구자))
Nancy Ashford
방탕한 부잣집 자식이자 바람둥이인 밥 메릭. 밥 메릭은 어느 날 젊은 혈기로 고속 모터보트를 몰다가 사고를 당하고, 그를 구하기 위해 구조활동이 벌어지는 동안 필립 박사가 사망한다. 밥 메릭은 유족인 헬렌에게 미안함을 표시하려 헬렌을 찾아가지만 헬렌은 자동차 사고를 당하고, 그 결과 실명하고 만다. 시력을 잃고 절망한 헬렌에게 밥은 로빈슨이라는 가명으로 접근하여 위안이 되어주려 노력한다. 밥은 헬렌과 함께 스위스로 간 뒤, 그곳에서 중단했던 의학 공부를 다시 시작한다.
Mrs. Edmonds
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
Mildred Waterbury
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Sister Josephine
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
Aunt Lydia
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Jessie Crain
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.
Mrs. Palfrey
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Aunt Jezebel
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
Parthy Hawks
블러섬호 선주 호크스의 딸 매그놀리어는 미남 도박사 게이로드 래브널과 사랑에 빠져 시카고로 달아나 결혼하게 된다. 그렇지만 그들의 결혼은 그의 노름으로 인해 파경에 이르게 되고..
Christine Hill Cosick
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Mrs. Emily Birk
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.
Ruth Benton
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Katherine Williams
Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.
Emma Getzel
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Ma Stratton
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
Aggie MacDonald
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Mrs. Mary Caslon
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Countess Fosco
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
Cousin Lily
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
Juliana Borderau
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
Madge Rapf
아내를 죽인 죄로 종신형을 선고받은 빈센트는 탈옥해서 마침 지나가던 베이커의 차를 얻어 탄다. 그러나 그때 라디오에서 자신의 탈옥 속보가 나오자 엉겁결에 베이커를 폭행하고, 이때 아이린이라는 여자가 나타나 도움을 준다. 아이린의 호의를 의아해하던 빈센트는 그녀의 아버지 역시 아내를 죽였다는 누명을 써서 종신형을 살던 중 옥사했으며, 이로 인해 아이린이 자신을 도왔음을 알게 된다.
Countess Zoe
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Bruna Jacobson
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.
Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Aunt Jessie Frame
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Baroness Aspasia Conti
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Madame Marelli
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Third Cousin's Wife
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Mrs. Emily Hawkins
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
Mrs. Reed
나는 영국의 불황기였던 1820년에 태어났다. 돈과 지위가 전부였고 사랑이란 단어는 냉대받던 시절이다. 종교는 편협과 잔혹이란 가면을 쓰고 있었으며 가난하고 불행한 자들이 갈 곳은 없었다. 나는 부모 형제가 없는 고아로 게이트헤드의 리드 숙모님 댁에서 어린 시절을 보냈다. 나는 그녀에게서 따뜻한 말 한마디를 들은 기억이 없다.
Adele - Mrs. Delancey Wright
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Miss Featherstone
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
Mrs. Mathews
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Violette Shumberg
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Fanny Minafer
귀족 가문에서 자란 조지 앰버슨은 오만하고 자부심이 강한 청년이며, 유진은 자동차 업계에서 성공하여 딸 루시와 함께 살고 있는 홀아비다. 조지의 어머니 이사벨은 남편이 죽자 옛 연인 유진과 다시 사랑에 빠진다.
Mary Kane
1940년 뉴욕 인콰이어러지를 비롯, 수 많은 신문들의 발행인이었던 찰스 포스터 케인이 죽는다. 그는 당시 70세로 세계에서 손꼽히는 부자였으며, 죽음 직전에는 플로리다의 대저택에서 은둔 생활을 하고 있었다. 생전에 많은 정치인과도 친분을 맺고 있었고, 미국 정책에 막강한 영향력을 발휘하기도 했던 그는 자신에 대한 여러 얘기들에 대해 "나는 현재 미국인이고 과거에도 미국인이었으며 앞으로도 항상 미국인일 것이다"라고 일축하곤 했다. 잡지 편집장 록스톤은 그의 죽음을 취재하고자 기자 톰슨에게 케인이 죽기 전에 말했다는 장미꽃 봉오리가 무슨 뜻인지 알아오라고 한다. 톰슨은 케인의 주변 인물을 샅샅이 취재하기 시작하는데...
