二十年代的美国处于经济萧条时期，失业率居高不下，工人受尽压榨，成为了大机器生产中的一颗螺丝钉。查理（查理·卓别林 Charles Chaplin 饰）就是一个底层市民，他在一个机器隆隆的厂房里日以继夜地工作，以赚取微薄的收入。重复繁重的工作压得他喘不过气，他把人们的鼻子当成螺丝钉来拧，卷入流水线机器的皮带里，令人苦笑不得。
查理尽管贫穷，但却很善良。他在路上搭救了流浪女，和她一起生活，家里破烂却又温馨。每次身无分文的查理为了找到吃的，都会故意犯事，以便进入监牢。光景一时间有了好转，流浪女成了歌舞红星，然而好景太短暂了。

1914年卓别林出演的银幕处女作。描写一个骗子在社会各种场景里制造的闹剧。

Writer: Mack Sennett
33min

Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.

姑娘mabel穿着睡衣被误锁于寓所门外，由此在求爱者、流浪汉、邻居夫妻之间引起了一连串的误会。

Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall different girls, though Charlie's has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws his girl's friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen.

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up. Charlie sprays the policeman with soda until he friends makes it through the hole. In the grandstand, Mabel abandons her beau for Charlie. Both Charlie's friend and Mabel's are arrested and hauled away.

特鲁迪（蓓蒂·赫顿 Betty Hutton 饰）是一个天真到有些犯傻的女孩，驻扎在镇上的军队要离开了，居民们为士兵们举行了热闹的欢送派对，特鲁迪在派对上喝高了，第二天醒来时，她发现自己不仅于一夜之间嫁为了人妻，腹中竟然还怀上了某个士兵的孩子，更糟糕的是，特鲁迪并不知道自己的丈夫，孩子的父亲究竟是谁。
诺威尔（埃迪·布莱肯 Eddie Bracken 饰）一直以来都深深的爱着特鲁迪，即便现在特鲁迪身上背负了这么多的麻烦，诺威尔对特鲁迪的感情都没有一丝一毫的改变，这让特鲁迪彻底改变了对诺威尔的的看法，而诺威尔则打算承担起本不属于他的责任。

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

35岁的儿童读物插画家朱丽叶回到家乡与她所爱的人度过了两周的时光：一位神志不清的父亲；一个姐姐，她有更好的事情要担心，她的孩子、她的工作、她乏味的丈夫和她的情人；缺席的母亲和失去理智的祖母。埋藏的记忆、不言而喻的真相和家庭秘密浮出水面……

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.