A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.

Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the engine when his engineer refuses to continue until he has observed union rest rules.

"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Tetlow finds her and abandons Katy in the desert.

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

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.

Elmer Tuttle, a plumber in Paris, is enlisted by beautiful Patricia Alden to help her make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. Tony, however, is two-timing Patricia with Nina Estrados. Elmer, with the help of his friend Julius, hopes to use the high-society contacts he's made with Patricia to find a market for his new invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. But Elmer's attempts to interest a military leader are mistaken for assassination attempts, and with Tony and half the male uppercrust of France challenging Elmer to duels, he is in hot water not even his plumbing skills can drain away. Written by Jim Beaver
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It was Keaton's first starring talkie vehicle.
A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?

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

故事发生在车水马龙的繁华大都市巴黎，卡洛塔（Mary Fabian 饰）是一名歌剧演员，某日，剧院之中忽然现身了神秘的幽灵，威胁卡洛塔必须放弃她在歌剧《浮士德》中的角色，并将这个角色让给一位名为克里斯汀（玛丽·菲尔宾 Mary Philbin 饰）的女子扮演。克里斯汀和幽灵之间是怎样的关系呢？
原来，幽灵的真身是一直以来潜伏在剧院中的一名头戴面具的男子，一场意外令他的容貌尽毁，变得恐怖狰狞，无奈之下只好戴上面具，躲藏在墓地里。某日，克里斯汀的出现吸引了他的注意，他发现自己已经深深的爱上了这位美丽的女子，于是决定现身将她挟持。起初，克里斯汀十分害怕这位诡异的男子，然而，随着时间的推移，克里斯汀渐渐发现，这恐怖的幽灵亦有温柔善良的一面。

　　巴特斯（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）是一位名不见经传的街头摄影师，在意外之中结识了米高梅公司新闻短片部门的女秘书萨利（玛赛莲·黛 Marceline Day 饰），在萨利的引荐之下，巴特斯来到了米高梅，想要应聘成为那里的摄影师。 　　然而，巴特斯的职业之路从一开始就风波不断，虽然屡遭失败，但善良的萨利一直都信任和支持着巴特斯，这让巴特斯十分感动深受鼓舞。斯塔格（哈罗德·古德温 Harold Goodwin 饰）是巴特斯的同事，正火热的追求着萨利，根本不把穷酸蹩脚的巴特斯放在眼里。某日，巴特斯接到萨利的线报赶到唐人街拍摄重大新闻，哪知道经历了千辛万苦回到新闻部却发现自己的摄影机中根本就没有安装录影带，萨利亦因此受到牵连。