黎巴嫩贝鲁特，从天而降的白头神探弗兰克?卓本中尉（莱斯利?尼尔森 Leslie Nielsen 饰）将一群阴谋破坏美国安定团结的阿拉伯极端分子痛揍，但返回洛杉矶的弗兰克并未得到嘉奖，因为新的案件在等待着他：同事诺德伯格因调查贩毒案被重伤，时值伊丽莎白女王访问洛杉矶，受命保卫女王的弗兰克只能挤出时间调查诺德伯格被袭案，在拜访女王接待委员会首脑、商人兼议员文森特（里卡多?蒙特尔班 Ricardo Montalban 饰）时，弗兰克敏锐的嗅到其与贩毒案的关联，文森特方面则暗示美女助理珍?斯班瑟（普瑞希拉?普雷斯利 Priscilla Presley 饰）接近弗兰克，以便取得警方第一手信息。文森特如此心虚，是因为他受人委托刺杀英国女王，而看上去毫不靠谱的弗兰克，此时是文森特眼中的头号大敌……

影片围绕着四个儿时的朋友在卡特里娜飓风过后回到新奥尔良下九区，他们发现自己的家和工作前景都被毁了。为了找工作，他们求助于当地的一名歹徒来实施一场大胆的赌场抢劫。但当抢劫出了问题，男孩们只得被迫进行危险的犯罪，为生存而斗争。

Playing with both a structural principle of the cinematic medium (the synchronization of sound and image) and one of its core dimensions (to function as a machine for the reproduction of ghosts) with boundless gusto, the greatest polymath of the 1970s New York avant-garde devotes this first part of his Hapax Legomena cycle to nostalgia. He sets it, though, in brackets and openly wonders: can we feel nostalgia for the present? Via a sequence of 13 shots, each of which sees a photograph Hollis took of the New York arts scene ritually burned on a stove while the narrator has already moved on to describing the next still, this classicist poet, photographer, sculptor, critic, and filmmaker who set cinema on a new course explores the limits of representation, rescinding and resurrecting the capacity of the image to speak of reality.源自：

改编自法国片《逃犯》（LES FUGIFIF'S）的抢银行喜剧，将造物弄人的主题透过结构巧妙的故事发挥得淋漓尽致。尼克·诺尔蒂饰演刚出狱的大盗，他在银行遇上乌龙劫匪马丁·肖特，竞被劫持为人质，导致警方误以为他重操旧业，不得不展开逃亡。相处之下，诺尔蒂发现肖特其实有小人物的辛酸故事，并且跟他的小女儿莎拉·罗露产生了一段温馨的感情，从而也溶化了他冷傲的心。