The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.

เด็กมัธยมปลายสองคนร่วมมือกันพยายามโค่นล้มคณะกรรมการโรงเรียนในท้องถิ่น พวกเขาก้าวเข้าสู่โลกการเมืองที่เต็มไปด้วยอันตรายโดยได้รับคำแนะนำจากครอบครัว และในระหว่างนั้นก็ได้เรียนรู้สิ่งหนึ่งหรือสองสิ่งเกี่ยวกับความรัก

กลุ่มสามเกลอที่ดูจากภายนอกไม่น่ามารวมตัวกันได้ ต้องมาร่วมมือกันเพราะมีเหตุการณ์ชวนขนหัวลุกเกิดขึ้นอย่างต่อเนื่องไม่จบไม่สิ้น ได้เวลาพวกเขาผจญภัยไปในเส้นทางสุดป่วนชวนฮา สู่การสมรู้ร่วมคิดของรัฐบาลแสนชั่วช้า

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.

The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.