故事发生在1870年的英国，奇普斯（罗伯特·多纳特RobertDonat饰）来到布鲁菲学校，成为了那里的一名老师。因为年轻气盛加上没有经验，奇普斯和学生们的关系并不是太好，在学校里他始终都默默无闻。一晃眼二十年过去了，这样的情况依然没有改善。一次偶然中，奇普斯在前往奥地利旅游的途中邂逅了名为凯蒂（葛丽亚·嘉逊GreerGarson饰）的女子，温柔美丽的凯蒂深深吸引了奇普斯的注意，两人坠入了情网。凯蒂的柔情与浪漫让奇普斯坚硬冰冷的心渐渐融化，在和恋人相处的过程中，奇普斯也开始悟出了和学生的相处之道。之后，奇普斯在学校里步步高升最终坐上了校长的位子。

he wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets, and a minor one at that, is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, most of the employees' anger directed at Merrick, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to go undercover working at the store to mete out the rabble-rousers. Undercover as Thomas Higgins, Merrick gets assigned as a sales clerk in the shoe department, where he is taken under the caring wing of his colleague Mary Jones, who sees in Higgins a poor man needing the guidance of friends. One of those other friends is Elizabeth Ellis, who Mary sees as a possible "Mrs. Higgins". Mary's boyfriend is Joe O'Brien, the chief organizer of the employees, four hundred of whom are following Joe in the charge against the store and Merrick. At the store, Merrick not only wants the list of t

故事发生在1937年西班牙内战时期，在纷飞的战火之中，一位来自美国的名叫罗伯特（加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰）的男人，他的身影时常活跃在前线，带领着西班牙人民抗击当地法西斯的残暴统治。他们炸火车打巷战，打得敌人节节败退。这一天，罗伯特接手了一个新的任务，和一支由民兵自发组成的游击队联手，炸掉敌人前来攻打必经之路上的一座铁桥。在此过程中，罗伯特邂逅了名为玛利亚（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）女孩。玛利亚曾经是市长的女儿，过着幸福美满的生活，然而战争摧毁了她的家庭，不仅让她失去了父母，自己也惨遭侮辱。共同的革命信念让罗伯特和玛利亚很快就走到了一起。