Gannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cellmate into staging a riot and prison break, but the cellmate tries to back out when he realizes other inmates may be killed in the process.
里奥(马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰)和达德(卡尔·莫尔登 Karl Malden 饰)共同参加了一场抢劫计划,哪知道达德出卖了里奥,导致里奥锒铛入狱。一晃眼五年过去,在狱友莫德斯(Larry Duran 饰)的帮助下,里奥越狱成功,他的内心里一直都没有忘记过达德的背叛,而此时的达德早已成为了镇上的成功人士。
越狱后的里奥拾起了老本行,加入了以鲍勃为首的犯罪团伙,并且在一次偶然之中结识了达德的继女路易莎(皮纳·佩利塞尔 Pina Pellicer 饰),两人之间碰撞出了爱情的火花,这让达德找到了对里奥赶尽杀绝的机会。在达德的暗中操纵下,里奥在一次被投入了监狱,最终,两人站在了决斗的战场上。
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, “The Eternal Man” party. He begins to be referred to as “God”. Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.