Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.

　　史蒂夫·塔特尔（Buck Jones）是一个十分懒惰的乡村农民，每天最喜欢的事就是打盹睡懒觉，因此被人们称之为“懒骨头”。某日，他钓鱼的时候，偶然发现了想要自杀的露丝·范宁（Zasu Pitts），经过询问后得知，原来露丝与一位水手私定终生，但水手在海上不幸丧生，而露丝却生下了水手的孩子，害怕母亲知道真相的露丝被迫无奈而选择轻生，好心的史蒂夫劝露丝勇敢告诉母亲真相，并愿意暂时帮露丝抚养孩子，但露丝的母亲知道真相后，坚决禁止露丝认领孩子，并要求她立即出嫁，史蒂夫被迫无奈只好将孩子一直养下去，并为此而和自己的女友艾格尼丝（Jane Novak）分手。
　　弗兰克·鲍沙其导演作品，像他的诸多默片作品一样，镜头漂亮，技巧娴熟，对感情的处理细致入微十分动人。但不太一样的地方是，相比较鲍沙其其他几部更为人熟知的电影而言（像是珍妮盖诺和法莱尔那几部），本片要更为现实，爱情并没有拯救一切的力量，最后也没有迎来大团圆结局，整个故事满是遗憾与哀伤，但一切都被处理地十分低调细微，不至于太过情节剧化。
　　片中的一众演员都表现得十分出色，尽管如今大部分已经为人所遗忘，饰演男主的Buck Jones通常活跃于西部片中，但在本片中他将一个夹杂着剧情片与喜剧片特质的角色处理得十分成功，眼神尤为具有感染力。
　　最后特别表达一下对本片配乐的喜爱，静谧又掺杂着几分忧伤，与简朴怀旧的乡村布景相得益彰，也将整个故事衬托得更加细腻动人。

　　讲述商人吉姆面临经济危机，幸好去世的祖父留下巨额财产给他，但条件是他必须在27岁生日晚上七点前结婚，结果引来全城妇女的求婚，当然，最后还是有情人终成眷属。

　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

　　流浪汉查理（查理·卓别林 Charlie Chaplin 饰）随队伍来到阿拉斯加淘金。他在一间小木屋里碰见了通缉犯拉逊，接着淘金人吉姆也闯进来，并抢走了拉逊的枪。拉逊出去找食物时发现了吉姆正在开发的金矿，于是他没回木屋。小木屋里，饥肠辘辘的查理煮了皮鞋充饥，饿的神智恍惚的吉姆却把查理想象成火鸡追杀。突然，一头熊撞进来，两人一起把熊打死，饱餐之后分道扬镳。吉姆发现了拉逊占了自己的金矿坑，拉逊将他打昏，不料却在逃跑时掉下深谷。
　　查理在小镇邂逅舞女乔治亚（乔治亚·黑尔 Georgia Hale 饰），帮她摆脱暴发户的骚扰。第二次又巧遇她时，查理邀她除夕共餐，但是乔治亚爽约了，失落的查理只能在幻梦中为她表演舞蹈。被打成失忆的吉姆在镇上重遇查理，他请查理帮他一起找金矿。两人回到小木屋，却被大风雪吹落下了万丈深渊。醒来时他们惊喜地发现金矿正在身边。查理与吉姆淘金成功，在回乡的船上遇见困顿的乔治亚。在新闻记者的镜头前，查理与乔治亚亲密拥抱。

　　在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。
　　A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....

　　故事发生在车水马龙的繁华大都市巴黎，卡洛塔（Mary Fabian 饰）是一名歌剧演员，某日，剧院之中忽然现身了神秘的幽灵，威胁卡洛塔必须放弃她在歌剧《浮士德》中的角色，并将这个角色让给一位名为克里斯汀（玛丽·菲尔宾 Mary Philbin 饰）的女子扮演。克里斯汀和幽灵之间是怎样的关系呢？
　　原来，幽灵的真身是一直以来潜伏在剧院中的一名头戴面具的男子，一场意外令他的容貌尽毁，变得恐怖狰狞，无奈之下只好戴上面具，躲藏在墓地里。某日，克里斯汀的出现吸引了他的注意，他发现自己已经深深的爱上了这位美丽的女子，于是决定现身将她挟持。起初，克里斯汀十分害怕这位诡异的男子，然而，随着时间的推移，克里斯汀渐渐发现，这恐怖的幽灵亦有温柔善良的一面。

影片发生在1905年，一艘名为波将金号的战舰上，原本这是一艘沙皇海军的骄傲，可是因为连续数月的伙食太差，导致了一场哗变。沙皇海军波将金号战舰上，水兵的生活环境非常差，受着非人的待遇。一连数月，水兵的伙食很差，供应的牛肉甚至长满了蛆，引起了战舰上水兵们的极度不满。部分水兵策动起义，却受到了军官的镇压。指挥官下令枪杀叛乱者，但是由于起义之火在众人心中燃烧。行刑队拒绝开枪，起义者们拿起武器将军官丢入大海。波将金号被起义者们夺取，并驶入敖德萨石阶进行补给。敖德萨的群众对水兵们的遭遇非常同情，义愤填膺，纷纷声援起义的水兵。而群众的声援却遭致沙皇军队的镇压，一场血腥的屠杀就此展开……