一个被遗弃的人蜷缩在传教堂的台阶下，他受到了一位充满激情的传道者的布道启发，并为钢琴演奏家所倾心，以至于他试图通过成为警察来改善自己贫困的生活。他的第一个任务是在安乐街上巡逻，这是一个恶霸及其犯罪团伙经营的地盘。

醉酒的房主深夜回家后，在家中行动不便。

After causing havoc on the sales floor Charlie goes to the office floor. There he runs into the store inspector (who looks exactly like him) who has just robbed the safe and knocked out the manager. Charlie thinks he is in front of a mirror till he notices he holds a stock and his "image" the bag of loot.

大胆的囚犯23号，从监狱逃脱后，嘲笑了他无能的追捕者，并拯救了三个处于危险中的人：一个美丽的女孩、她的母亲和一个讨厌的求爱者，但最终筋疲力尽并差点溺水。在布朗法官家恢复体力后，他参加了上流社交聚会，在那里与求爱者竞争迷人的布朗小姐青睐。但监狱警卫仍在追捕他…

Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie go on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio.

卓别林为Mutual公司拍的第11部影片，讲述移民到新大陆的故事。在短短20分钟之内，影片分成两部分，前者是满怀梦想的通向新大陆的旅程，后一部分则是通过一个用餐的场景来表现新大陆之梦的艰辛以及最终柳暗花明的喜剧结局。

After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating. Mr. Stout makes advances toward the unwilling Edna (whose father and Mrs. Stout had earlier carried on in the restaurant). After a roller skate ballet, Charlie (now as Sir Cecil Seltzer) is invited to a party at Edna's. All the "couples", including a new partner for Mr. Stout. show up.

Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

《疗养》是卓别林1917年完成的电影，全片约长30分钟。由查理·卓别林，艾德娜·珀薇安丝，埃里克·坎贝尔主演。

查理在裁缝店作伙计，一天裁缝决定冒充伯爵去一个妇人家做各并让查理冒充他的秘书。可他们在餐桌上查理出尽了洋相，这个时候，真的伯爵却到了……