在这部患难之交喜剧片中,沃尔特马修在片中饰演了一名叫特拉布柯的职业杀手。他接到任务要在拉迪去法院出庭作证时将其杀死灭口。当特拉布柯从法院大楼外他准备下手的地点离开回旅馆的途中，遇到了沮丧的维克多克鲁尼（Jack Lemmon饰），为他的妻子赛丽亚（Paula Prentiss饰）为了一个奇怪的加利福尼亚州性诊所的所长离他而去而悲痛不已。特拉布柯回到旅馆房间并把来复枪安顿好。但住在隔壁的维克多扰得他心神不宁。维克多试图将自己吊死在房间里。特拉布柯弄断了维克多上吊用的绳子，不料维克多由爬到了窗外准备跳楼自杀。为劝回维克多，特拉布柯只得同意陪同维克多去加州找他的妻子。二人来到诊所，发现妻子已经不可救药的爱上了奇怪的医生雅克布洛特，并正准备提起离婚诉讼。维克多决定回旅馆继续自杀，赛丽亚和医生也暗中尾随而至，计划给维克多注射一针镇定剂，却阴差阳错地将针头插进了特拉布柯地身上。特拉布柯将自己刺杀拉迪的任务告诉了维克多，维克多打消了自杀念头，决定帮他完成刺杀任务。
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola, set to testify against the mob. As Trabucco heads off to a hotel across the street from the courthouse where he plans to set his hit, he runs into the depressed Victor Clooney, who laments the fact that his wife has left him for the head of a weird Californian sex clinic. Trabucco keeps walking and sets up his rifle in a hotel room. He is disturbed by Victor trying to hang himself in the adjoining hotel room and tries to prevent him from killing himself by restraining him, but Victor breaks loose and climbs onto the ledge of the hotel window. To get Victor to come back in, he agrees to drive him to the clinic to see his wife. The two go to the clinic where Victor's wife Celia informs Victor that she is in love in the head of the clinic, quack Dr. Zuckerbrot. When Victor finds out that Celia is filing for divorce, he heads back to the hotel to kill ...
比利怀德谢幕。晚节不保。
