流浪汉查理（查理·卓别林 Charlie Chaplin 饰）随队伍来到阿拉斯加淘金。他在一间小木屋里碰见了通缉犯拉逊，接着淘金人吉姆也闯进来，并抢走了拉逊的枪。拉逊出去找食物时发现了吉姆正在开发的金矿，于是他没回木屋。小木屋里，饥肠辘辘的查理煮了皮鞋充饥，饿的神智恍惚的吉姆却把查理想象成火鸡追杀。

Charlie plays a woman, jealous over her husband's interest in another woman. She gets in the way of a cameraman, knocks over a director and a policema

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single fe