A big-city is over-run with crime as two gangs fight over turf after one gang invades the territory of the other. Mike Doolan, an amateur private detective, and "Scoops" McGee, a wise-cracking newspaper reporter take both on in a parody-burlesque of Paramount's "Underworld." The situation is somewha…

时值美国内战爆发前夕，约翰和家人生活在平静的南方农场里，但是喜欢画画的约翰按奈不住对外面世界的向往，一心想出去闯荡一番事业，征得父母的同意后，他投奔了远在北方开报社的姨父，一年后，内战即将爆发，南北的冲突日益剧烈，两边都在招兵买马，约翰的两个哥哥已经加入了南方联军，此时的约翰选择了北方，但是他也不想为北方而战，他所要做…