菲利克斯（威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰）是一名电影制片人，他倾尽所有拍摄了高成本的影片《夜风》，但首映式之后却收获了恶评如潮，不仅如此，他在片中担任女主角的妻子（朱莉·安德鲁斯 Julie Andrews 饰）亦离他而去，绝望之中，菲利克斯决定自我了断。 幸运的是，一个同事发现了菲利克斯的自杀念头，救下了他，为了帮助菲利克斯走出抑郁，同事和制片商们在菲利克斯家里举行了一场惹恼的派对，在此过程中，菲利克斯被激发了灵感，决定拍一部色情片，并且依旧是请自己的妻子出演女主角，这回真的是背水一战了。
Plot Summary:Felix Farmer is an extremely successful Hollywood producer, whose movies for Capitol Pictures have never lost money,... until now, with his latest, most expensive film to date, Night Wind, ending up being a major flop. The film, starring his popular Academy Award winning actress wife, Sally Miles, who has a G-rated screen image, almost bankrupts the studio. As such, the studio execs turn on Felix, who want to take over creative control of the movie and re-edit it to lessen the damage. It also turns Felix suicidal, his mental state which in turn leads to Sally leaving him and taking their two children with her. As Felix tries and tries again unsuccessfully to kill himself, he finally stumbles upon an idea which gets him out of his depression. He plans to use his and Sally's money to purchase the movie back from the studio, and re-imagine it by adding a few new scenes, to drastically altar it from the G-rated fantasy film it is, to an R-rated sex romp, complete with Sally baring her naked breasts on screen. In doing so, Felix believes it has the potential to become the most popular film to date. A major obstacle in being able to carry out his idea is Sally, who has long protected her good girl screen image. What ends up happening is largely dictated by those around them, from the major players to those on the periphery of their lives, each who is working on his or her own self interest, with even those at the far edge of the periphery having a profound effect on the proceedings.
