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A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man’s love affair with that woman’s widowed granddaughter.

The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

How is the Leavenworth prison inmate, Robert Stroud has a number of confrontations with the guards and other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he was ordered to comply, and only his mother's impassioned intervention in the form of his sentence to life imprisonment, which he is to serve the solitary confinement. As he serves his sentence, boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud will soon take a deep interest in caring for the birds, which gives him a new life goal, but that also creates new conflicts with prison authorities.

Kā iemītnieks ir Leavenworth cietumā, Robert Stroud ir vairākas konfrontācija ar aizsargiem un ar citiem notiesātajiem. Kad Stroud nogalina aizsargs, viņam ir piespriests izpilda, un tikai viņa mātes kaislības iejaukšanās izpaužas viņa teikumu ar mūža ieslodzījumu, kas viņam ir kalpot vientuļnieks dzemdībām. Kā viņš kalpo viņa teikumu garlaicība un izmisuma, vienu dienu viņš atrod bezspēcīgs baby zvirbulis, pildot pagalmā. Stroud drīz veic dziļu interesi rūpējas par putniem, kas dod viņam jaunu mērķi dzīvē, bet kas arī rada jaunas pretrunā ar cietumu iestādēm.