台湾黑社会老大的孙女被人劫持,劫犯遇到电影特技人林小龙,阿龙自幼在一家杂耍团长大,除练功外,以发明各种古怪的机关道具为乐。 林小龙在路上撞见一歹徒绑架小女孩,小龙行侠仗义,击退歹徒救下女孩,并将小女孩安全无恙的送回。黑社会老爷子感动之余请阿龙和他的家人来府赴宴,没想到手下得力助手阿威勾引金三角毒枭叛变,老爷子被拘禁,阿龙和父亲使出种种本领,终于击毙阿威,救出老爷子。。This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。