一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡,在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆,其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀…… Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger's (with the exception of Francis's witch's lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.
The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows as she marries an alcoholic, who leaves her with little hope of a brighter future for herself and her mentally challenged son. Throughout Shanichari's lifetime of misfortune she has never cried. This creates great difficulty once she is called to become a rudaali until Bhinkni, an experienced mourner, enters her life.[2] Shanichari and the local landlord's son fall in love with each other, but Shanichari is reluctant to ask the rich lover for money as she does not want to lower her love even for the sake of getting out of poverty and misery.
故事发生在第一次世界大战时期的爱尔兰,罗茜(莎拉·米尔斯 Sarah Miles 饰)是一个个性开朗热情奔放的女孩,她爱上了名为查尔斯(罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰)的小学校长,虽然两人的年轻相差巨大,但罗茜犹如飞蛾扑火一样的不顾一切,同查尔斯携手步入了婚礼的殿堂。 然而,新婚当夜,两人之间就发生了激烈的争吵。直到此时罗茜才发现,自己和查尔斯在性格上根本就不相配,但是为时已晚。之后,罗茜邂逅了少校兰德福(克里斯托弗·琼斯 Christopher Jones 饰),后者向罗茜展开了热烈的攻势,罗茜又一次坠入了情网。一连串意外的发生让罗茜成为了村子里的众矢之的,村民们将她囚禁了起来,想要给予她应受的惩罚。