西安交大骨科专家殷培璞为代表的大骨节病防治团队驻扎到一个偏僻的病区小山村,殷大夫的到来给村里赤脚医生宋高娃带来了威胁,宋高娃的儿子宋涛涛带头反对和质疑殷培璞的医疗团队,殷培璞最终没有选择放弃。通过长期调研,提出“吃杂、改水、讲卫生”防病理念,后又创办防病学校防治结合,与地方群众同心同德消除大骨节病,并通过一系列优质医疗资源服务与奉献,帮扶大骨节病患者们脱病、脱贫。。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.。