杰克哈里曼有位崇尚各种宗教灵性的老妈,深受影响的他累积了不少宗教知识,加上他天生的幽默与魅力,让製作人好友力邀他去参加电视宗教节目,却阴错阳差成了宗教名人,跑遍各个城市去演讲。一路上,有位神秘女子出现,挑战他的信念、质问他的内心,然后又消失无踪。最终他能否找到自己人生的解答?.。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.。