本片主人公（爱米尔·强宁斯 Emil Jannings 饰）是一所大旅馆的看门人，一直以来他都为这份体面的工作感到自豪。当他下班后穿着神气的制服，回到自己所居住的贫民区时，邻居们都会向他投来羡慕的眼光。新一天开始了，如常上班的他却被告知老板要辞退他，因为他年纪太大了。但念在他工作多年的份上，老板把他调去打扫厕所，还要收 回他的金边制服。他一下子从神气十足的看门人变成了低三下四的厕所清洁工。不能接受这个事实的他，夜里潜入旅馆把制服偷了回来。他穿着制服去参加侄女的婚礼，没有把被调职一事告诉亲朋好友。很快，他的秘密被别人知道了，大家纷纷嘲笑他。他再也没有颜面去面对别人了，于是跑回旅馆归还了制服，失魂落魄地坐在厕所中。然而故事并没有就此结束……

A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men

Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.

Droopy pursues a rude customer for a tip