桂美（杨惠姗）孤身从南京来到台湾寻找未婚夫未果，时尚暂住表姐家中，时尚却被当下等佣人对待，为摆脱寄人篱下的生活，她委身下嫁遭妻子遗弃的中年男人侯永年（李立群），成为三个孩子的继母，可是因为侯永年的嗜赌如命兼外养女人，令她犹如刚出狼窝又入虎穴。生下孩子后，桂美为了生计同侯永年远赴日本替人帮佣，又因机缘在当地一家中国餐馆学得一手好厨艺后返回台湾，独立开了“霞飞之家”餐厅，可是在她勤俭持家之时侯永年却故态复萌，而更让她觉寒心的，是长大成人各有成就的子女以及媳婿的自私与无情。
宋腾跃
回复 :Loosely based on Kathryn Forbes' book -Mama's Bank Account-, this film actually contains richer detail and more intricate character- izations. In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, young Katrina Hansen chronicles episodes of life with her extended family, who combine traditional Norwegian values with modern American ways. So successful that it became a popular radio show, and then a TV sitcom, both with Barbara BelGeddes and Irene Dunne from the film.
艾成
回复 :秀才王魁，因投亲不遇，流落山东莱阳，病倒在海神庙，恰遇名妓敫桂英前来焚香，在雪地里救起王魁。敫桂英爱其才貌双全，以私蓄相助其攻读诗书，后又以身相许，两人恩情缱绻。两年后，王魁赴京赶考，得中状元，一时趾高气昂。韩丞相欲招赘为婿，王魁开始还以桂英为念，但最后抵不住诱惑，作出决定放弃旧妻，入赘相府。敫桂英自送别王魁后，思念之心日切，在海神庙焚香祷告，祈愿王魁身体安康，早回莱阳。丫环小菊带着两位官家来报，说王魁已中状元，并带来书信一封，敫桂英急忙拆读来信，一看竟是休书……
冯玮君
回复 :George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
