胡格（杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰）遭到了信赖的朋友塔格里（L·Q·琼斯 L.Q. Jones 饰）和布温（斯特罗瑟·马丁 Strother Martin 饰）的背叛，身无分文险些丧命。在一片荒漠之中，胡格意外的发现了一处水源，于是，他打起了卖水的主意。牧师约书亚（大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰）指责胡格不应该将公共资源据为己有，于是胡格前往附近的小镇…

Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.　　While m…