1941年,波兰裔移民里奥纳德·切斯(亚德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 饰)为出人头地,开始经营一间酒吧。而此时密西西比的佃农麦肯利·摩根菲尔德(杰弗里·怀特 Jeffrey Wright 饰)怀揣音乐梦想背着一把吉他只身来到芝加哥,在街边他遇到了17岁的天才口琴演奏师小沃尔特,两人一拍即合,开始在切斯的酒吧驻唱。野心勃勃的切斯凭借自己敏锐的直觉和商业头脑,开办了切斯工作室(Chess Records),为沃特斯录制唱片,取得巨大成功。切斯在经营切斯工公室期间,广纳音乐人才,推陈出新,造就了一大批对美国乐坛影响深远的歌手……。John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Ban...。