伍德全為人樂觀,不務正業,憑著他的小聰明在都市裡打滾。因欠下小旅店三個多月房租,女工林小燕對他其深表同情。伍設計欺騙旅店老闆及一老華僑,事敗,伍悄悄逃離澳門赴港謀生。伍扺港後,結識一失意之國畫家辛極貴,向彼獻計裝死,以騙畫商。事敗,伍與辛又利用另一機會騙得一群顧客及外國遊客。最後,伍捲入「收買騎師」事件中,外圍公司命打手向伍圍毆,幸脫險。伍醒後只見小燕獨伴身旁看護,伍向小燕表白一切,決心改過自新。。The last year of life of the Italian-French painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) who died with 36 years, was played by Gérard Philipe, who was lethally sick during the shooting of this movie and died shortly after its release, 1959, with 36 years - on one of the two diseases that Modigliano had himself and exactly in his age. Further, this movie was directed by Jacques Becker ...。