1940年代，北方某地。海林（冯喆 饰）和银杏（束荑 饰）自幼要好，男大当婚，女大当嫁，几年后海林把银杏娶进家门。时逢蒋军抓壮丁，柴大肚子（张雁 饰）串通保长，新婚不久的海林被匪军抓走了。日寇投降后，海林被民主联军解放，由于在蒋军中待久了，海林身上不免沾染了很多坏习气，指导员（王炎 饰）和战友们不厌其烦地对他帮助教育，海林深受启发和感动。大军入关作战，海林和战友大杨（胡其明 饰）发起了杀敌立功竞赛活动，两人在战斗中冲锋陷阵，双双立功。部队经过海林家乡时，他获准探家，但看到家中的变化，他不相信自己的眼睛......
邦妮（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰）在位于南非的一间小型机场里稍作休息，等待着带她离开的船只的到来。在这里，她邂逅了名叫杰夫（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）的男子，杰夫是一名非常帅气的飞行员，经常要驾驶着飞机执行一些十分危险的任务。 杰夫所散发出的男子气概深深的令邦妮着迷，她主动的对后者投怀送抱，秋波暗示，但很显然，杰夫对邦妮并不感兴趣。杰夫有过一段失败的感情，至今他都未能够走出情伤。当杰夫的旧爱朱蒂（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰）再一次出现在他的面前，还带来了一个孩子时，事态有了变化。
ISABEL SULLIVAN (15) has just moved to a small town to live with her uncle PAUL who is the town's mayor. Isabel has recently lost her parents in a car accident. Feeling very alone and friendless, Isabel befriends a stray robot dog named ARCHIE. Though he looks like a normal dog, he is anything but. He can talk. He can run at blinding speed. He's got super strength and x-ray vision. Isabel and Archie become fast friends. She teaches him how to be a normal dog while he helps her to fit in with the cool kid clique. Most of all, Isabel can confide in Archie about what happened to her parents. Archie can relate. He's never had a family - until now. As the summer progresses, things start to get tricky. Paul is up for re-election and finds himself running against VERONICA TAYLOR who happens to be in cahoots with BURGERTROPOLIS - a national fast food franchise that has been trying to buy Paul out for years. What's worse, an evil man named HUGH JABLONSKI shows up in town claiming to be ...
