婚礼当天,叶黎的未婚夫桑野车祸离世。五年后,她遇见与桑野极像的姜南星,将他捧成影帝以缅怀爱人。可姜南星恃宠而骄,多次背叛,还联合乔念熙羞辱她。待姜南星毁容、桑野死亡真相揭开,叶黎清醒复仇,最终竟发现桑野未死,二人得以重逢。。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.。