视频简介
在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。 A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....。故事表面上描写了下层贫苦艺人的苦难生活，但用大量暗示性镜头和象征式的人物去表现人性内心的孤独和困境以及对生活顽强的希望。费里尼的妻子玛西娜在片中饰演愚笨的农家女，被母亲卖给跑江湖卖艺的奎恩。奎恩对她十分粗暴，以为她是个白痴，没想到她却渐渐爱上了他。后来两人一起加入马戏团，遇到高空走索艺人贝斯哈特。贝斯哈特对女孩很好，教会她很多事，但奎恩却跟他经常冲突，后来更失手打死了他。女孩十分伤心，奎恩离她而去。数年后，奎恩听到女孩的死讯，才想起她的种种好处，但悔之已晚。。