During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
The famous Captain Spaulding returns from Africa and attends a gala party where a valuable painting is stolen.
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
