来自大陆的杀手李强（周润发 饰）只身来到了美国，精品为了将还在家乡的母亲和妹妹接来美国一家团聚，精品无奈之下他只好向纽约曼哈顿唐人街的黑帮老大魏先生借钱。此时，魏先生的儿子因为在毒品交易中逃避警察而意外坠楼身亡，李强正好成了魏先生复仇的棋子。李强被派去杀害执行这次缉毒行动的负责人斯坦警官和他的家人，当他发现斯坦警官的儿子年仅7岁时，对家人的牵挂令他怎么也下不了手。行动失败后，不仅李强的生命受到了威胁，连他原在大陆的家人也面临杀身之祸。为了逃回家乡拯救家人，李强和魏先生派来的杀手展开了一场角力！
回复 :老朱（郎雄）被儿子晓生（王伯昭）从北京接到美国后，不但没享清福，反因与作家儿媳马莎（Deb Snyder）语言不通、在生活习性上有诸多差异，添出许多新愁（老朱对马莎的世界不好奇，马莎虽对老朱的世界好奇，却并不想作深入的理解，而是在好奇过后深深厌恶），倔强的老朱一片灰心（竟然在儿子家里尝到寄人篱下的滋味！），愤然离家出走。一次偶然事件令美国媒体对老朱的太极绝技称奇，晓生和马莎也在看过电视新闻后找到了老朱，但此时的老朱已明白，处境凄凉总好过晚节不保。
回复 :这部电影记载了上世纪中叶美国一场轰烈的政治抗争，此次对抗冲突是美国新闻界和政治史册上不可或缺的一页。在冷战的背景下，参议员约瑟夫•麦卡锡（Joseph McCarthy Himself）作为新兴政治人物崛起，他以反共产主义的政治立场而闻名。麦卡锡用强硬的手腕，搜集国会内的共产主义分子资料，实行高压的政治迫害，意欲掀起席卷政坛的反共风潮。美国哥伦比亚电视台的新闻记者爱德华（大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn饰）和他的同事们对这个政治阴谋坚决抗争。他们用自己的新闻理想、新闻阵地，毫无退缩地与麦卡锡主义对抗到底，并把这个丑陋的政客拉下政治舞台。爱德华和他的同事，成为了美国历史上的传奇人物。
回复 :George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
