一个名作家临终前立下遗嘱，给每人留了五万英镑，但是他们在获得继承权前，必须亲自完成一项不寻常的任务，如不能完成，将失去遗产继承权。为了得到这笔巨额的遗产，这些亲属都各自做了遗嘱定下的好事。他们任何人质疑遗嘱，所有遗嘱将会被没收，于是四人想方设法完成任务，为了他们梦寐以求的五万英镑……
　　本片被认为有着英国传统风格的喜剧片。故事在民间传说中就有，应该是源源流长的。属于惩恶扬善，教育醒世的类型。编剧和导演在构思上力求新颖，编导在展现,呈现,显现,体现各个继承人竭力去做对他们来说是难以做到的事情的过程中，穿插了许多就地取材产生的笑料。尽管头绪很多，但是故事条理线索仍较清楚。

　　Bugsy Malone渴望,期望,盼望,企望一举击垮纽约的黑帮，自己号令全城，与Fat Sam及Dandy Dan展开一幕幕的枪战...
　　本片是 70年代经典的音乐剧，剧中人物全由小童饰演,出演,演出,表演,出演,担纲,担当，披上西装及华丽舞衣登场，拿著忌廉枪作战，惬意,自在,悠闲,安逸惹笑之余，令人难不佩服制作人员的心思。
　　本片曾获第49届学院奖原创或改编配乐奖提名；并获第34届金球奖最佳影片（音乐剧/喜剧类）、原创歌曲“Bugsy Malone”、原创配乐3项提名。

　　这世上所有的职业，顽皮金都干过。在肉食店打工的顽皮金因为一次意外把肉店老板搞到进了医院，然后肉店老板大难不死后以为受到启发就想着从事医生这行业，顽皮金也随波逐流地跟着，后在医院遇上一个孤儿小妹妹，顽皮金莫名其妙地被小妹妹的身世所打动，就想天天都来看望小妹妹，可因之前顽皮金曾在医院里胡作非为，所以被院长严禁入内。为此，顽皮金及肉店老板几经周折地闯入医院以见小妹妹。故事一路疯癫滑稽，几乎没什么常理可言，但又超具童趣以及同情心，正是这部喜剧片的精妙之处。

　　Much Ado About Nothing contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero, and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love.

　　An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.

　　Father Brown tries to transport a historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.
　　During the making of the film, Alec Guinness was mistaken by a small boy for an actual priest. This episode appears to have played a part in Guinness's later conversion to Roman Catholicism.