影片改变自自然主义文学大师左拉的小说《衣冠禽兽》，描写火车司机雅克·朗蒂尔诞生在一个酗酒的家族，他因此总是神思恍惚，以为自己天生是个劣种，一天，他在火车上偶然遭遇了一起谋杀，心有异念的他对警察隐瞒了他看见同事侯保妻子萨维丽娜曾经出现在那个时段的事实，而在此后警方的询问里他一再为他们开脱，这件事让侯保夫妇和他成为了朋友，更出格的是朗蒂尔爱上了萨维丽娜，为了他们能在一起，在萨维丽娜的蛊惑下他甚至差一点谋杀侯保，他的胆怯让侯保逃生，可是，情欲的煎熬又让他无法摆脱和萨维丽娜的关系，但他得知女孩有了新欢，嫉妒使他失去了理智，在一次舞会后他杀了女孩后逃逸，第二天早上，他登上火车，等待他的将是怎样的归宿？！

A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as All That Money Can Buy.

When the naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets the Serbian Irena Dubrovna Reed (Simone Simon) in the zoo, he flirts with her and they sooner fall in love and marry each other. However, Irena is afraid of an ancient course of her town that women can not be touched by a man, otherwise she will transform in a panther, and the couple does not consummate their m...