Der Ritt in die Sonne

Petersen, Bunny and Slim, three tramps who have met after eluding the police, come by chance on a trunk full of smart clothes, and without a penny in their pockets, set forth in quest of adventure. Their first adventure is with the banker Richwald, whom Petersen impresses by which he thinks best fits with the clothes he is wearing- that of Vander Gould, the richest man in America. Richwald has been longing to meet Vander Gould to bring off a big business deal, so the thin three tramps are soon installed in a luxurious hotel with everything at their disposal. Petersen is addressed as the presence of an aristocratic gentleman who has a remarkably pretty daughter, and he learns that this is the Marquis D'Orsay, a nobleman with whom Vander Gould the millionaire had agreed on a matrimonial alliance between his son and the Marquis' daughter, Dora. Petersen is nothing loath to spend his time in the company of so charming a girl, with whom he sails to Cowes as the guest of the Marquis. Unfortunately, Petersen has quarreled with one of his companions, and Slim denounces him and Bunny as a pair of impostors. This interrupts Petersen's love-making for a time and even brings him and Bunny into contact with the Chief of Police at Naples. In fact there is a time when expected of having done away with the genuine Vander Gould and having hidden his body. Fortunately, after many surprising and most amusing developments, Petersen fully establishes his right to the Vander Gould millions, and the girl of his choice.