剧情描述在第一次世界大战后的乔治亚洲，退伍老兵詹姆斯．艾伦拒绝到一家老工厂作苦工，而是自愿流落街头。由于无辜被诬陷为汉堡店抢匪，他被作为抢劫帮凶而被判十年劳役。经过精心策划和准备，他成功逃出监狱，然后来到芝加哥，在那里，他在建筑行业中获得了成功，并且捕获了一位名叫玛丽的女孩的芳心，那个女孩说如果艾伦不与她结婚，她就会暴露他的罪行。在经过苦苦的挣扎之后，他终于摆脱了玛丽的纠缠。然后，他遇到了美丽的海伦并且爱上了她。但是，事情并不是想像的那么美好，反而变得更遭。他依然仍一直生活在再次被逮捕的阴影之中。司法制度原是为了保护好人惩罚坏人而设计，但当司法执行不公时，反而成为政府逼害无辜百姓的工具，人民被迫起而反抗，自己争取应有的权益。《逃亡》正是控诉这种现实的一部优秀电影，同时，它也是一部经典的犯罪片和黑色电影。通过完美的情节叙述和摄影风格以及优秀的剪辑技术，本片把一个严肃的社会问题轻松幽默地摆在了观众的面前。本片改编自萝伯特·E·贝纳斯的自传。贝纳斯为了吃上一点饭而偷了不到六美元的钱，因而被当作帮派分子被抓了起来。电影也基本上就是贝纳斯的亲身经历。影片开头的场景是詹姆斯·艾伦在一条轮船上，他刚刚从一战的战场上归来，身上缀满了军功章。这是对战争的嘲讽。

城镇警长家里最小的孩子没有父亲和哥哥们那样壮实，但他用头脑战胜了劫匪，为家庭和自己赢得了荣誉，当然，还有未婚妻。

Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom or the "casting couch"? Will she fade after the brief blooming of a "morning glory"?

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

吉姆（赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰）即将和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂，但他始终觉得，自己对未婚妻更多的是责任而不是感情。一次偶然中，失意的吉姆在公园里散步，邂逅了名叫琼（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰）的女孩。琼正在找工作，她烧得一手好菜，可是，所有招聘厨师的广告都要求招聘厨师和管家的夫妻组合，没有人要单打独斗的琼。
看到了同样形单影只的吉姆，琼灵机一动，她说服了吉姆和自己假扮夫妻，并且最终顺利的获得了一份工作。在相处的过程中，吉姆和琼之间渐渐产生了真挚的感情，可是吉姆一直对琼隐瞒着自己的真实情况，眼看着琼对自己越来越信赖，吉姆该何去何从呢？

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)