最后的丑闻：我太太喜欢它硬

　　某纺织厂的音乐部教师东植对锦川发生的一起杀人事件表示出极大的兴趣。　　某天，东植从女工郭善英处收到一封情书，并向舍监告发，善英被工厂开除。曾鼓励善英写信的朋友赵庆熙借着钢琴辅导的契机开始出入东植家。为了贴补家计，东植妻子做了很多裁缝活儿，身体越来越虚弱。东植委托庆熙寻找到一名合适的下女，帮助持家。妻子怀孕回娘家的当下，庆熙借机向东植表达了爱意，却受到辱蔑被撵了出去。这一切都被窗外的下女看到眼里。下女借机诱惑东植，并与之发生了肉体关系。三个月后，下女怀孕。东植的妻子知道真相后，将下女推下楼梯，导致流产。失去孩子的下女怒火中烧，性情开始变得暴烈。结果，下女将东植夫妇俩的孩子也推下楼梯，藏了起来。下女以向工厂曝光所有事实相要挟。为了保住整个家庭，东植将二层的房间让给下女。最后，准备和下女一起吃耗子药自杀的东植看到死在台阶上的下女，毅然抛弃了她，重新回到了妻子身边。这时，电影画面再次回到东植夫妇看着有关那起杀人新闻的画面，东植不禁说道：这样的事情有可能发生在任何一个人的身上。

　　音乐厅中传来枪声，观众们一片惊慌。一位外国女子（露西•曼娜海姆饰）询问理查德•汉内（罗伯特•多纳特饰）是否可以在他家中过夜。次日该女子在被杀之前告诉理查德必须阻止间谍组织“三十九级台阶”将国家机密偷偷送出英国。汉内为了证明自己并不是杀人凶手无奈前往苏格兰高地寻找线索，在火车上他寻求一位叫做帕梅拉（玛德琳•卡罗尔饰）的金发年轻女子帮助，但她却马上向警察告发了他。他找到了“三十九级台阶”的领导人乔丹教授，但随即被陷害入狱。侥幸逃脱后又由于帕梅拉的告发被两位伪装成便衣警察的人带走，并且他们还把帕梅拉和他铐在了一起。于是两人携手逃脱了出来并取得了互相的信任，然后他们再次回到音乐厅，汉内看到了上次就见过的表演。他向号称可以回答任何问题的“记忆先生”（怀特•沃森饰）提问：“什么是三十九级台阶“，于是……　　希区柯克曾说“记忆先生“是他最喜欢的角色之一，这个角色建立在一个名叫达塔斯的真人基础上，他自己小时候在伦敦看过他的表演。

　　In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister.

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.