《魂断疯人院》的故事发生在上世纪的战争年代，围绕女精神病医生静秋无故被强行关押到疯人院的线索展开。江洋饰演的志同内心一直默默喜欢着静秋，虽然他的情感一直被静秋忽视。在静秋伺机为自己寻找精神正常的证据的过程中，作为主治医生的江洋给予她尽可能的照顾，但是他的动机却绝非表面看起来那样的单纯。面对静秋的男友文远（孙坚饰），江洋展现了更多的沉静与冷漠，他在静秋与文远之间充当的角色十分耐人寻味。
冯齐（林申 饰）与比他大8岁的陈颜（朱俐颖 饰）邂逅在火车上，冯齐对她一见倾心，但离异且有一女儿的陈颜不置可否。后来，冯齐考上了军校，主动提出与陈颜建立恋爱关系，都遭陈屡屡拒绝。冯齐反而义无反顾地展开了爱情攻势，他想让陈颜重新树立起对爱情的信心，架不住冯齐多次热烈的表白，陈颜最终答应了冯齐的追求，甚至将女儿未来的前途都寄希望于这个比自已小的男人。当冯齐的父母得知自己的儿子找了一个年龄很大的拖油瓶，表示坚决反对，在多次与儿子沟通未果的情况下，他们找到部队的领导做他的工作，面对如山的压力，冯齐渐渐退缩了，不知该怎样去面对他曾经信誓旦旦的陈颜......
Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. The fly in the ointment is shady Harry Wesson (John Baragrey), the gambler who inveigled Jenny into committing murder. The girl is torn between creature comforts offered her by Wesson and the promise of a clean life offered by Griff. This early Douglas Sirk effort contains a smattering of the stylistic touches which distinguished his later work.The screenplay was written by famed director Samuel Fuller, known for his gritty realism and hard-boiled style. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
