母亲与娼妓

　　烈火可以烧尽一切邪恶 但爱比烈火更为致命　　职场新秀克莱尔泳池偶遇美女伊芙，遂展开一段浪漫情缘，然而当有一天她在其老板的派对上与伊芙再度重逢，却发现对方的身份并非那么简单。不久后她又被卷入了其老板的谋杀案之中，原来她早已身在局中.....

 夏洛特（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）已经能算得上是一个老姑娘了，她梳着呆板的发型，穿着保守的服装，性格也古里古怪的，更糟糕的是，她似乎还染上了酗酒的坏毛病。在家人的建议之下，夏洛特决定踏上治疗心灵的旅途，登上了驶往远方的游轮。在游轮上，夏洛特邂逅了名为杰瑞（保罗·亨雷德 Paul Henreid 饰）的男子，并且在误打误撞之中和杰瑞的女儿结下了深厚的友谊。很快，夏洛特就感到自己坠入了情网之中，然而，此时的杰瑞并不是自由身，他有这一段无法结束的婚姻。心碎的夏洛特选择了离开，而夏洛特的母亲也在不久之后撒手人寰。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...