Margot Landa

Newlyweds Käthe and Max met while studying law. Trouble ensues when Max takes on his first case without telling his wife.

Underwear manufacturer Livius Heintze is a vehement anti-alcoholic and thus is very much against the marriage of his daughter Hedwig to the brewery owner Raumert. Heintze's second, illegitimate daughter Emmi also wants to give her father a heart attack by marrying the hops merchant Seidl.

The village mayor is a bigoted man: when he sees a girl from the variety show, the morality no longer applies to him.

“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the “Cat”. One of them approaches the Americans disguised as a marquis, but he has not reckoned with Jefferson’s daughter, Jessie.

Inspector Harry Cross is investigating a murder case with a knife throwing killer in the the seedy world of night clubs.

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.