Buster Keaton's final silent feature, as well as the final film in which MGM allowed him any creative control.

本片以1906年旧金山大地震为背景，穿插了竞选、歌唱、狂欢、爱情和宗教宣传。影片的主要特点是长达二十分钟的大地震高潮，摄影、特技和剪辑都有些特点；尤其音响效果和整个场面的气氛结合得较好，增加了惊心动魄的感觉，曾获得第9届奥斯卡最佳音响效果金像奖。导演范戴克以手法明快见长，这部影片的开头和结尾都采用了一组经过设计的短镜头来表达一事件的过程。女主角珍妮．麦唐纳的主题歌，曾流行一时。

Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won't marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. Jeff pretends that a shy, never-married nobody he has just met is really a great lover, in order to get Angelica interested in him.

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. A plethora of chorus boys and girls are featured front and center in some of the song and dance numbers, and provide back-up to some other acts. But the revue primarily is a vehicle to highlight a cavalcade of Hollywood movie and Broadway stage stars. One early running gag has both Nagel and Benny playing straight man to Cliff Edwards, who just wants a nice introduction to his act. Edwards would return later to be featured along with the Brox Sisters in one of the highlights of the second act, a production number around the song "Singin' in Rain", complete with rain soaked stage. A reprise of the song with the entire cast acts as the revue's finale.