查理和另一名男子竞争试图帮助一位年轻女士穿过泥泞的街道。对手找到了一块木板，查理从他那里拿走了。他们争夺属于对手的雨伞。一名警察解决了争端，最终逮捕了对手。一个无辜的流浪汉被推入湖中。

一个流浪汉为了出风头，总是在赛车场的电影镜头前晃来晃去，电影导演则不得不频繁地将他推打出镜头之外。

1914年卓别林出演的银幕处女作。描写一个骗子在社会各种场景里制造的闹剧。

A young, buxom farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she's convinced they're about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the constabulary and they sets off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maid's parents rush to save her (dad's waving a pistol), as do neighboring farmers, armed with shotgun, pitchfork, and shovel. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.