罪犯诱饵

某街区发生一起绑架凶杀命案，警方苦于没有罪犯线索。一名城市快报的记者灵感突现，将目标锁定在江洋大盗舒德•麦迪什身上。他和同样供职于报社却哭无出头之日的室友（Buster Keaton 巴斯特•基顿 饰）制定一个周密的计划，由室友假冒麦迪什认罪入狱，因开警方的注意力，而记者则负责追踪麦迪什，最后赢取奖金平分。为前所困的室友答应了这个计划，千方百计成功将自己送入监狱。 　　某天，他从报纸上看到，记者乘坐的飞机坠毁，机组乘客无一生还，失去依靠的他不得不想办法逃离这里……The police are baffled by a case of kidnapping and murder, and they have no clues to go on. A reporter is convinced that the crime was committed by the notorious criminal Sawed-Off Madison. The reporter asks his roommate, an office boy at his newspaper, to confess to the crime, in order to throw off the police so that the reporter can capture the criminal himself. The office boy agrees to the plan, but things do not work out as they two of them had hoped.