一列疾驰的火车呼啸而过，在经过某个城镇时扔下了一个有些潦倒落魄的青年（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）。他没有工作，彷徨无奈，而登载在一份超大报纸上的招工启事吸引了青年的眼球。该启事来自一家射击训练场，他们要求员工拥有不错的射击本领。青年临时抱佛脚，偷了警察的枪来联系，无奈技术实在不堪。即便如此，他还是硬着头皮前去应聘。
射击场的老板是一个面相凶恶、身材魁梧的男人，他的真实身份则是某个强盗团伙的老大，他正和同伙们密谋绑架某富商。青年凭借小聪明获准成为团伙的一员，也阴差阳错得到富商的赏识，成了他的贴身保镖……

年轻的小伙子巴斯特（Buster Keaton 巴斯特•基顿 饰）丢掉了工作，女朋友也弃他而去，失意的他指望傍富人赚点儿零花竟也不成功，于是决定自杀。然而命运的折磨无休无止，无论巴斯特尝试何种方法，如卧轨、上吊、喝毒药等，最终都以失败告终。
将威士忌误作毒药喝下肚后，醉酒醺醺的巴斯特偶然间参加了一个动物园的讨论会，并自告奋勇气抓捕园内稀缺的动物犰狳。他独自一人来到野外，遇到一群狡猾的猎人。在迷人女子（Virginia Fox 饰）的邀请下，巴斯特加入了他们，开始了一场奇异的冒险……

巴斯特·基顿和弗吉尼亚福克斯扮演年轻恋人谁住在大杂院，其中后彼此面对，与后院隔开由木栅栏。他们的家庭仇隙的恋人的关系，造成很多混乱和打闹。

巴斯特的手工船“达姆菲诺号”已经完工了，当然，它太大了，无法通过地下室的门。当他开车带着它离开的时候，他房子的一侧，然后整个房子，都塌了。到了港口，他驾船出海，结果船沉到了他的脚下。剩下的就是他和他的家人在修复好的船上的一系列冒险了。

The film opens near a subway terminal from which Buster Keaton emerges. He finds people gambling in a house with lots of money. He tries to scare them with the cutout of a poster with a man holding gun. He puts the cutout at the window and says, "Raise your hands in air". But soon they find out when a drunk man falls over the cutout and Buster has to run.
Next, he mistakenly enters a house thinking that its his own house. Inside the house, he sees a man and a woman kissing. He takes her for his wife, gets red hot angry and shoots them both, later to realize his mistake.
He goes to his own house this time to find his irritating wife. Some object hits his yelling wife and she faints. A passing police officer knocks at the door after hearing her scream. Buster saves himself by playing music on gramophone and pretending to dance with his fainted wife. As soon as the officer leaves, he lets the fainted wife fall down and looks out of the window. He discovers a pretty but married neighbor (Bonnie Hill), quickly wears good clothes and takes flowers to her where she imagines he looks like Erich von Stroheim. The husband of this pretty neighbor comes back and Buster has to run. The rest of the movie is filled with funny situations of him chasing after that pretty neighbor. In the end, he wakes up in the front row of a film theater to realize that it was all a dream.

The Haunted House is a 1921 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 21 minutes. One of the more memorable sequences of the film involves bank teller Buster spilling glue all over his counter, reminiscent of a scene in his first film The Butcher Boy.

养尊处优的富家公子阿尔弗莱德·巴特勒（巴斯特·基顿饰）被父亲勒令到山里打猎钓鱼，想要他锻炼得更像个男子汉。巴特勒既没能打到一个猎物也没能钓上一条鱼，却在山里结识了心爱的女孩（萨丽·奥尼尔饰）。女孩的父亲和兄长嫌弃他过于瘦弱拒绝了求婚请求，巴特勒只好冒充成同名同姓的拳击冠军“战将”巴特勒。在一连串的误会后，巴特勒不得不准备登上擂台迎战绰号“亚拉巴马谋杀犯”的拳击手……

A young man (Buster Keaton) proposes a young woman (Renee Adoree), but her father questions how he might support his daughter after the marriage. The youth informs that he will move to New York, find a job and marry the girl. If he fails, he would commit suicide. Once in the big city, he works in many professions and writes to his girlfriend; and his imaginative girl reads each letter and thinks in her beloved being successful on each trial.

Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Silent

风和日丽的日子里，有些木讷呆板的青年（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）和一群绅士贵妇打高尔夫球，虽然极想在心仪的女孩面前大出风头，但是青年委实霉运当头，或者挥杆落空跌倒在地，或者小球直接掉入水里，好不容易打到最后一杆，小球又被多事的小狗叼走，甚至连一群老妇人都要找他的麻烦。当然，这些还都不算什么，更大的灾难等在后面。
某监狱，编号13的囚犯越狱逃亡，引来大群狱警追捕。他逃到高尔夫球场附近，刚好看见昏倒在地的青年，于是将自己的条纹囚服穿在了青年身上。过了一会儿，青年醒来，还在自顾自地打着高尔夫球，却不知道自己已经成了即将被送上绞刑架的囚犯……

当大量的爱尔兰女人错误地指责打破窗户的巴斯特他是波兰法官谁讲没有英文，并假定他们在那里结婚论处。她把她的新丈夫回家见她的四个大猩猩般的兄弟。

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

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. (The group is played by the "Original Sing Band," which uses their mouths to sound like musical instruments.) They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.

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。