美国南北战争前夕,南方农场塔拉庄园的千金斯嘉丽(费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰)爱上了另一个农场主的儿子艾希礼(莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰),遭到了拒绝,为了报复,她嫁给了自己不爱的男人,艾希礼妻子梅兰妮(奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰)的弟弟查尔斯。
The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator, which stops a dozen feet short of the main floor due to an electrical failure on a July 4th weekend. She rings her outside …