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

This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.

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……

Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

Back Stage is a 1919 comedy, one of the last films that Buster Keaton would appear with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle before they went their separate ways, Keaton would get his own studio, and Arbuckle got into feature length films.
In this film, Keaton, Arbuckle, and others, work as stagehands, backstage of course, in a playhouse trying to help and in some cases, stay far away from the eccentric and diva-like performers. When the performers rebel and refuse to do the show, the stagehands, along with Arbuckle's love interest, the assistant of one of the rebelling performers, perform in their place- including Keaton showing his ability to do butterflies, no handed cartwheels, while in drag.

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……