在这部Billy and the Butler惊悚/短片/犯罪片中,
Billy McGrath is arrested one morning for speeding and taken to the police court. He pays his fine and is about to depart when he comes face to face with a man being led in handcuffed by an officer. Billy sizes the fellow up and leaves. The handcuffed man is really James Thornton, alias "Butler Jim," an English crook whose specialty is robbing his employers while serving as butler in their houses. Later Billy is a guest at a week-end house party given by his friend Lawton. On arriving he is talking with Lawton, when the butler passes through the room. It is Thornton. Billy tries to remember where he has seen the man, but cannot place him. With a confederate, Thornton now plans to rob the house while the guests are at dinner. Coming from his room, Billy sees the two leaving one of the rooms with stolen jewelry in their hands. He endeavors to capture them, but is overpowered and locked in the bathroom. He manages to escape by knocking the hinge-pins from the door, pursues the crooks out...