在颁布禁酒令之后,Remy Marco宣布他将转入其他行当.因为他制造的啤酒酿造水平太低,所以他濒临破产.这时,他的女儿爱上了一个有钱人家的公子,但是这个公子却是个警察Remy Marco, Prohibition beer baron, figures he'll do even better after repeal. Only trouble is, his beer tastes terrible. (He drinks no beer himself and nobody dares tell him). Four years later, when he's about bankrupt, he visits his summer home in Saratoga, complete with: 1) a dead-end-kid orphan; 2) his daughter's fiance...a state trooper!, 3) the bodies of four gangsters who planned to ambush Remy but had a shootout; 4) half a million in loot they hid in the house...just the amount Remy needs to get out of hock. The comic confusion mounts...