纳粹党卫队高级将领阿道夫·艾希曼终于被以色列情报机构掳获，押解回耶路撒冷受审。但由于直接证据不足，以色列警方很难以法律手段定其罪行。这对主管这起案件的警监阿夫纳·莱斯来说，是一个巨大挑战。他必须设法从这个“最终解决方案”的主谋口中取得口供，否则这个千方百计逃避惩罚的纳粹战犯很可能再次逍遥法外。面对如此棘手的重要见证人，阿夫纳只能采取极端手段审问艾希曼，希望逼迫他在压力下缴械投降，为数以百万计受难者寻求一个交代.....
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.
