Marple is extremely proud when she is appointed to the board of trustees of a merchant marine training vessel whose mission is to rehabilitate young criminals. As in all of her endeavors, Miss Marple intends to take an active role in the job and even shows up to the board meeting dressed in naval blues. When a fellow trustee is poisoned just prior to his making some kind of revelation, Miss Marple decides to use her position to spend time on the ship. This upsets the vessel's fragile social network as she dispossesses blustering Captain Rhumstone from his quarters. When two ship's officers are later found murdered also, Miss Marple enlists help from her friend Jim Stringer and Inspector Craddock to expose the murderer.
It is winter in a prestigious all boys' boarding school, where children continue to practice age-old rituals and codes bound by years of hierarchy of the popular norm. Shay is picked at constantly, the main perpetrators being Arjun, the tall athletic sports captain and his best friend Baadal. Shay and Prithi, the spunky daughter of the new Junior School Principal are cast as Bassanio and Portia in the Founders Day production of Merchant of Venice. Murali, the charismatic drama teacher unknowingly adds salt to Baadal's wounds by casting him as Shay's understudy. Indignant, Baadal vows to get Shay's part at any cost and turns to his buddy Arjun for help. Events take a sinister turn when Shay walks in on Arjun, Baadal and their cronies on a debauched night.
故事发生在南北战争结束之后,从前线退下来的老兵霍华德(詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰)想要回到故乡,重新过上宁静的生活。可是到达目的地后他才发现,原本应该属于自己的土地,早已被他人侵占,想要赎回土地,霍华德必须付出一笔不小的代价。 身无分文的霍华德决定当一名赏金猎手来赚取外快,他将目标放到了大盗本(罗伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 饰)的身上。在捉拿罗伯特的过程中,霍华德结识了两名帮手罗伊(拉尔夫·米克 Ralph Meeker 饰)和杰西(米勒德·米切尔 Millard Mitchell 饰),两人误以为霍华德是警探,所以愿意无条件的帮助他。可是,当三人捉住了本后,另外的两人才发现了霍华德的真实身份,于是他们提出了瓜分赏金的要求。