在这部在火山下剧情片中,一个忧伤的故事，讲述了一个酗酒的前英国领事在小镇的自我毁灭过程，一个孤独的酒鬼在面对昨天时作出的悲哀决定：死亡，或者重新开始。
导演约翰·休斯顿曾导过《马耳他之鹰》、《碧血金沙》、《灵欲思凡》等。
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
火山恋人。《在火山下》。
