The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.
