影片的开头是一个古典默剧打扮的男子，他带着黑色的帽子，穿着黑白条的衣服，脸上涂的煞白，几乎看不到任何表情。少顷桌子的另一头有个看似警方的人员坐了下来，警员似乎面带疲惫，他提议从头回顾默剧演员之前的遭遇。镜头一转回到大街上，默剧演员牵着一条看不见的狗逛街，在拐角出现些和一名女子撞到。简单交谈后，女子给他留下了电话号码。在此之后，他们的关系进展很快，默剧演员向对方求爱，两人走进浪漫的殿堂。但是再美好的故事都有尽头，他们的关系渐渐恶化，女子仿佛被他传染一样沉迷于默剧，他们的故事一发不可收拾……

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families feud over the lovers' relationship, resulting in much mayhem and slapstick.
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

After waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married. She takes her new husband home to meet her four gorilla-like brothers.