一位神秘人物的出现让小镇上的居民终日生活在恐惧之中,他利用一架邪恶的机器制造出了许多可怕的怪物,将它们放到镇上为非作歹。这时,就轮到“秘密公司”的诸位出马了,可摩拳擦掌跃跃欲试的沙吉(马修·里沃德 Matthew Lillard 饰)和搭档史酷比(Neil Fanning 配音)却被告知留守公司,不必参加行动。 不甘心的沙吉决定和史酷比私下里调查事件的真相,以挽回他们一败涂地的名声,没想到却闹出了一大堆的麻烦。随着调查的深入,博物馆馆长帕特里克(赛斯·格林 Seth Green 饰)带着他的阴谋渐渐浮出水面,线索显示,这一切,很可能和传说中的恶魔复仇有着千丝万缕的关联。
玛格丽特(弗吉尼亚·梅奥 Virginia Mayo 饰)是一名出身尊贵的公主,虽然过着衣食无忧富足奢侈的生活,但玛格丽特却并不感到快乐。因为她无法自由的去选择自己的感情,而是必须听从国王的安排。 一次偶然中,玛格丽特在一条商船上遇见了名为沙巴斯(鲍勃·霍普 Bob Hope 饰)的演员,此时,意外发生了。贪婪的铁驹船长(维克托·麦克拉格伦 Victor McLaglen 饰)劫持了商船,并且绑架了玛格丽特公主要求巨额赎金。为了救玛格丽特,沙巴斯不惜男扮女装,甚至嫁给了海盗羽毛头(沃尔特·布伦南 Walter Brennan 饰)。羽毛头早就不满铁驹船长的独裁统治,他命令沙巴斯去偷取藏宝图。
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
Follows a country music duo who seek out the private mansion of their idol and end up in a twisted series of horrors that force them to confront the limits they'd go for their dreams.