Jim owns and operates the best garage in town, despite he needing a little prodding to get his assistant to do the work. Jim's sweetheart, the postmistress, isn't sure if Jim is *the* man for her. It isn't until a couple of incidents occur, including Jim coming into a $10,000 windfall, that she agrees to marry him. But that $10,000 windfall could be long gone with the arrival o...
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 en...
上世纪初,白人殖民者开始入侵原始而神秘的北美洲西部地区,C.J.亨特经营的西部石油公司盯上了这里丰富广袤的资源,于是以极其下作的手段攫得了那里的土地使用权,并且强迫世世代代生活在这片土地上的印第安人迅速离开。得知派去的信使被奸商们杀害,部落首领大为震怒,决心杀死侵入领地内的所有白人。
十分不凑巧的是,一个倒霉的白人男青年(巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰)盲打雾撞来到这里。印第安人们的敌意让他颇为不安,更没想到对方要将他活活烧死。不过一阵纷乱过后,青年却凭借自己的聪敏才智成为了保护印第安人土地的白面酋长……
阿莱克斯(哈罗德·劳埃德 Harold Lloyd 饰)本来有一份体面而又稳定的工作,还有幸福快乐的人生,但一场突如其来的变故将这一切都粉碎殆尽。如今,年近35岁的阿莱克斯在一家游戏公司从事电视游戏测试员的工作,和他一同工作的,都是小年轻,阿莱克斯必须铆足了劲,才不至于被这些年轻人抛在后面。好在阿莱克斯是一个机灵的男人,他总是有办法让自己成为公司里的焦点。
哪知道阿莱克斯的室友因为沉迷于去夜总会风流,欠下了巨额债务,连两人的房租都赔了进去,就这样,一夜之间,阿莱克斯成为了流落街头无家可归的流浪汉。好在很快,阿莱克斯就给自己找到了新的住所,然而让他没有想到的是,他的新同居人,竟然是一位名叫格雷斯(Anna Townsend 饰)的八十岁老太太。