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律师史蒂夫（迪恩·马丁 Dean Martin饰），有一个美丽的太太梅兰妮（拉娜·特纳 Lana Turner饰），两人婚后几年都过着美满的生活。然而，最近一年来，史蒂夫对太太貌合神离，梅兰妮暗中注意，发觉他同时也花钱不少，怀疑他对她不忠。 梅兰妮找到史蒂夫的同事克连（埃迪·艾伯特 Eddie Albert饰）诉苦，从他处得知丈夫天天把大部分精神放在赌外围马，这一年来，他已经输了八千块钱了。 梅兰妮查知原委，又气又恼，她要让夫妇生活重回正轨，竟然妙想天开，劝克连向史蒂夫扬言他是个外围赌马公司的掮客，把史蒂夫的投注受理下来，这样一来，史蒂夫的钱便不会输给外人了，到头来，还是回到她自己身上。 克连以前爱过梅兰妮，对她还是余情未断，梅兰妮要求他干的，他马上言听计从，他对史蒂夫自称是外围赌马公司的掮客，史蒂夫也答应通过他来投注。 哪知史蒂夫投注的一匹冷马竟然...。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。
