这部电影以闪回的形式讲述了麦金迪因帮助选举作弊而获得政治集团的青睐，甚至当上了有名无实的市长一职。这种政治生涯需要他结婚组成家庭来服众，然而妻子凯瑟琳使他认识到他以前的行为是错误的...

　　Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Hele...