船长老比尔已多年未见自己的儿子了，可当儿子终于大学毕业出现在老比尔面前时，他矮小的身材却不禁让万分期待的老比尔颇感失望。与此同时，小比尔的女友也回乡拜访父亲，没想到却是老比尔的死对头金船长。两人的感情面临危机。一天，一场飓风突如其来，更让港口险象环生。
本片与《将军号》一起被认为是巴斯特·基顿的杰作。

对于这个世界闻名的丑角三人组来说，没有任何一种艺术形式是神圣的。他们对侦探片也狠狠地嘲弄了一番：他们揭穿了店主的欺诈行为并以自己独特的方式将商店整理得焕然一新……和几乎所有的马克斯三兄弟的电影一样，情节只充当一根将所有单个场面串联起来的绳子。这座巨大的商店有着数不清的科室、规章条款、各式各样的人以及奇特的行事方式，这一切都给予了三兄弟足够的空间来传播她们恶毒的、毁灭性的幽默。

吉米·杜兰特是丛林之星，但公众看腻了他的假狮子。因此，当蒙乔森男爵带着真狮子进城时，杜兰特举办了一个盛大的派对，以便他可以在下一部电影中使用狮子。他的电影对手潜入晚会，在杜兰特之前买下了狮子......

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.

船长老比尔已多年未见自己的儿子了，可当儿子终于大学毕业出现在老比尔面前时，他矮小的身材却不禁让万分期待的老比尔颇感失望。与此同时，小比尔的女友也回乡拜访父亲，没想到却是老比尔的死对头金船长。两人的感情面临危机。一天，一场飓风突如其来，更让港口险象环生。

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.