故事发生在二十世纪初的北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特,刚刚出狱没多久的约翰尼(詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰)参与了一次抢劫行动,并且为了掩护队友而遭到了警察的枪击,约翰尼失手打死了警察,惹上了重罪,成为了全城通缉的对象,身负重伤的约翰尼体力不支,昏了过去。
穷的叮当响的无赖汉谢尔(F.J.麦考密 F.J. McCormick 饰)发现了约翰尼的踪迹,在他的身上看到了发财的法子,他将情报通告给神父汤姆(W.G. Fay 饰),却被凯瑟琳(凯思琳·赖安 Kathleen Ryan 饰)发现。凯瑟琳赶在谢尔之前找到了躲在疯画家鲁奇(罗伯特·牛顿 Robert Newton 饰)家中的约翰尼,就这样,两个人踏上了逃亡的旅途。
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
As Moscow is set ablaze by the ret...