An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news 24 hours in advance, the reporter goes about scooping all the other papers, picking sure-fire winners at the race track, and enjoying life... until he learns -- in advance, of course -- of his own death. Our hero's problem How can he keep the future from happening(imdb) 主人公每天晚上都收到一份次日早上出版的报纸,他获悉自己在数小时内即将毙命,然而他却幸存下来了。(乔治·萨杜尔《世界电影史》)
昆汗比比(Cunhambebe)是印第安塔穆约(Tamoyo)部落武装反抗葡萄牙人的同盟领袖,这个部落现今分布于里约热内卢至圣保罗之间。根据死里逃生的Cunhambebe俘虏海员施塔登(Hans Staden)的回忆录描述,图皮南巴(Tupinambá)族人是食人族,凶残而且好斗。 1555年法国入侵里约热内卢,塔穆约部落与葡萄牙人联合抗击法国。 由于战争的持续,传教士José de Anchieta 和Manuel da Nóbrega发现了巴西东南面的一个小村皮拉蒂宁卡村(aldeia de Piratininga),此后此处逐渐发展成为了今天的圣保罗。因为Anchieta能够流利的使用图皮语,两人之后进入了Cunhambebe的部族中,并与其达成了一系列协议。1567年,在乌巴图巴(Ubatuba),他们与Cunhambebe签订了Iperoig条约,条约的签署使得巴西落入葡萄牙人的手中,而且在当地只允许使用葡萄牙语和信奉天主教。在16世纪以前,当地的图皮人一直都是奴隶。 这部电影讲述的便是1594年葡萄牙骑士Estácio de Sá(1520-1567) 试图驱逐法国殖民者,在此之际,由于塔穆约部落的仇敌图皮金人(Tupiniquins)站在葡萄牙人一方,他们感到背叛,于是开始支持法国人。 一位法国人Arduíno Colassanti被图皮南巴俘获。虽然他已自称是法国人,但审判仍判定他是来自葡萄牙,惩罚他为奴隶。Seboipepe的丈夫死于葡萄牙人之手,于是他们结婚,希望得到神灵的复仇。 随后,在一场战役中他用葡萄牙人留下的大炮击败了图皮金人,为了庆祝这一胜利,图皮南巴人决定把他吃掉……
Though Delluc's career was short-lived, it burst vigorously(7 films in 4 years)that it forever left its imprint on french cinema history, and they rightly honoured him by giving the annual Prix Delluc to the best French film of the year. He was responsible for the creation of influential cinema journals like Le Journal du Ciné-Club and Cinéa, founding numerous film societies, writing countless articles and coining the term cineaste. Delluc believed that films should be set in the natural without elaborate posturing, and characters should be portrayed in an intimate way where the past and present, illusion and reality can be correlated, all considered to be avant-garde at its time. He died only a few weeks after the shooting of The Flood at the age of 33.