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- A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
- Miles Brewster Higgins, a self-conscious small town youth, endures his jealousy in silence when a flashy automobile salesman appears and captures the attention of his sweetheart, Irene Hayes. On the insistence of Cousin Roy, Miles invests in Baby Blue oil stock, which quickly earns a fortune. It is his intention to become engaged to Irene, then jilt her, but the rumor that his money was actually invested in another company -- and is therefore accruing no profit -- spoils his plans. Miles "faces the music" and learns that Grandma Brewster has spread the news about the false investment to test him. Miles has his fortune and his girl.
- Bart Andrews loves well-to-do society girl Ann Wesley, but reproaches her for her frivolity, believing that she conceals a better self within her personality. Her fortune is lost in a stock-market panic, and she retires.
- Neglectful husband Hugh Varley learns that his wife, Denise, is infatuated with philanderer Frank Despard. She enters Frank's apartment to recover some incriminating letters and makes a quick exit, unaware that the occupant is subsequently murdered. Denise seeks refuge in the apartment of Cort Maitland, who knows of her affair with Frank. Hugh later comes to his wife's defense when Cort attempts burglary and assault. In the struggle, Cort accidentally shoots himself and confesses to murdering Frank before he dies.
- A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
- Suffering persecution, Russian Jews Nathan Levinsky, his wife, Esther, and his son, David, escape their homeland for the U.S., where Nathan ekes out a feeble existence as a peddler. Esther despairs of her life and leaves Nathan for Max Levy, but reverses cause her to allow David to be adopted by the wealthy Danvers family. Some years later, Nathan prospers on a small California ranch, which adjoins the larger ranch of John Comstock. Comstock makes no secret of his dislike for Jews, yet he unknowingly approves when his daughter, Helen, falls in love with the Danvers' adopted son, Jimmy, whom Nathan secretly recognizes as David. Nathan loses everything in a fire, goes to San Francisco to begin anew, and is reunited with a contrite Esther. Jimmy learns the truth about his parentage and goes to San Francisco to search for Nathan; Helen and Comstock follow, and Helen disappears. Nathan saves Helen from disgrace at the hands of Max Levy, and gratitude prompts Comstock to sanction Helen's marriage to Jimmy.
- Helen Frazer marries Harold Lawton to please her domineering grandmother. However, Harold continues his dalliance with chorus girl Letty Lorraine, and embezzles $25,000 from his employer, Howard Hendricks, to support her luxurious tastes. To protect her son, Helen enters into a financial agreement with Howard, who hopes to win her from Harold. One year later, after Harold has squandered the stolen money, he kills his employer. Helen is arrested, and as the jury announces a guilty verdict, Harold bursts into the courtroom, confesses to the crime, and swallows poison, leaving Helen free to find happiness with her loyal attorney, Alfred Emerson.
- Dartigan, an adventure-seeking Nebraskan with a broken-down horse, seeks the famous Three Buckaroos and receives their challenges to three individual pistol duels when he stumbles onto them. En route to these appointments he meets and falls in love with Constance Kingsley, and he valiantly assists the Buckaroos in repulsing an attack by cattle rustlers at the rendezvous. Thus, Dartigan is allowed to take the oath of The Three Buckaroos, which forbids him to declare his love to Constance. Led by Dartigan, the Buckaroos engage in many valorous exploits and finally round up the rustlers--freeing Dartigan to tell Constance what she has been waiting to hear.
- A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, rare cinematic gem based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel of the same name.
- Jees Uck, a half-breed maiden desired by Chatanna, chief of the tribe with which she lives, defies tribal law by getting medicine from the trading post for the sick child of her friend, Inigo. Nashinta, the medicine man, defends her against the chief. Chatanna kills Nashinta and puts the blame on Jees Uck, who flees into the arms of Neil Bonner, trading post manager, who loves her. The post is attacked, but Jees Uck surrenders to save her white friends. Neil finds evidence against the chief, delivers him to the authorities, and marries Jees Uck.
- Phillip Griswold kidnaps his brother William's daughter for ransom, and frames Christmas tree peddler Pietro Balletti for it. In the course of hunting for Pietro, William accidentally kills the Italian's daughter.
- Louis Rousseau believes that the technically perfect music of his violin student, Tom Richards, lacks a soul because Tom has not suffered. Therefore, he convinces Rosalie Anjou, whom Tom saved from apaches and now loves, that she must dance at the notorious Moulin Rouge to earn the money Tom needs for his lessons. While keeping Tom ignorant of her activities, Rosalie becomes a great success and is selected Queen of the Moulin Rouge. Rousseau takes Tom to the coronation and, as he hoped, Tom denounces Rosalie and pours his pain and rage into his music. Rousseau confesses his scheme and Tom rushes to the banks of the Seine just in time to save Rosalie from a watery grave.
- After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wealthy southern mother in dread fear that she and Virginia Sanders should learn of his prison record--a fear which is constantly nurtured by his rival, Con Arnold. Richard enlists the aid of his two friends to help Dixie, his mother's horse, win the Kentucky Derby. Realizing Dixie's inability to do so, they substitute Calamity Jane's Lightnin', which does win the race. Arnold exposes the substitution and Richard's past, but his triumph is interrupted by a detective, who arrests Arnold for past crimes.
- I. Solomon, a humble tailor on New York's East Side, dreams of being a designer with a shop on Fifth Avenue, but he makes no headway until a dress that he designs for Mary Bell, a laundress who suddenly becomes a movie star, attracts attention and becomes popular. Three years later Solomon has a successful Fifth Avenue shop, but his prosperity is too much for his wife, Rosie, who succumbs to a scheming Greenwich Village pianist, Orlando Kolin. Resigned to giving Rosie her freedom, Solomon, with Mary's help, stages evidence to give Rosie a reason for divorce. Fortunately, Rosie realizes her mistake in time and falls into Solomon's arms; Mary resumes her romance with Solomon's lawyer.
- Michael Cardigan is an American patriot in the months before the American Revolution. He fights to broker a peace deal between settlers and the Cayuga tribe and almost loses his life in the process. Despite the fact that he loves Silver Heels, the ward of the British governor, Michael joins with the famed Minute Men to plot revolution and, he hopes, a free American nation.
- A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
- While attending Stanford University, Silent Duval, a half-breed Indian, is both a football star and the object of scorn by his fellow students--except Mary MacDonald. Duval leaves college in disgust and returns to his Northland home as a secret agent for MacDonald's business firm. Later, Duval learns that Mary has been lost in a violent snowstorm while searching for her father, and he defies death to repay her kindness by rescuing her and teaching her father's enemy, Winston Sassoon, a lesson in the law of the Yukon. Duval rewards the patience of Nadine Picard, also a half-breed, with his love.
- Benjamin Franklin Reed, otherwise known as Sweetie, resents being tied to his mother's apron strings and on the occasion of his 21st birthday decides to assert his adult independence. He begins by smoking a cigar, swearing mildly, and taking a drink. Later, he becomes enamored of a cabaret performer, kisses her passionately before the audience, then goes to her dressing room to apologize and to find that she takes a sympathetic interest in him. The pair decide to elope to Boston, but Benjamin loses his money, and his bride is snatched from him by an irate father. Benjamin learns of a cabaret clown's plot on the girl's life, and following a struggle with the clown, he rescues the girl as the villain falls to his death from a stage platform. Now proved to be a man, "The Cradle Buster" embarks on his honeymoon.
- Captain Musgrove, the brutal lord of a South Sea island, prevents the natives from participating in his pearl-diving enterprise. When Tagu, son of the native chief, is penalized by the captain for poaching, he avenges himself by attempting to kill Frederico, Musgrove's chief diver. Although Frederico is determined to marry the captain's daughter, Ethel, she prefers a beachcomber named Jean. During an experimental dive, Jean and Frederico discover a treasure chest and decide to conceal their find from Musgrove. However, as they return to shore, Frederico abandons Jean when he is trapped by a giant clam. As Frederico is about to marry Ethel, Jean emerges from the ocean and punishes his rival. Jean wins Ethel and becomes the new chief diver.
- Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring. Believing that she is part of the ring, he decides to resign his job. Word arrives that the girl and her father are being held prisoners by the gang. The lieutenant goes to aid them and is captured. Finally, the U. S. Army rescues the trio and the girl is revealed to be a secret agent.
- Forced to abandon their apartment because of an exorbitant increase in rent, Tom and Nan Beech take up residence in a cheaper, smaller flat. During a quarrel over their situation, Tom angrily leaves for work, while Nan goes to a friend's home. Tom discovers that he is to receive an inheritance provided that he is settled and is leading a happy home life, which the lawyer insists on investigating for himself. Tom persuades his wife's best friend to act as his "temporary" wife and borrows a rich man's house. The rich man's wife, the "temporary," and Nan all arrive unexpectedly, and the lawyer is convinced that Tom is a regular Bluebeard. Complications ensue, but the owner of the house arrives and all is explained. The Beeches are happily reunited, and Tom receives the inheritance.
- U. S. Secret Service agent Burke is assigned to capture a gang of thieves attempting to smuggle valuable jewels from Cuba into the United States. Helen Morgan, a member of the gang, secretly loves Burke but ignores his entreaties to abandon her life of crime. Sylvia Ellis, whom Burke had befriended in Cuba, receives a box of candy from Helen, unaware that it contains the stolen jewels. On a steamship to Florida, Helen convinces Sylvia that Burke is a thief after the agent searches her cabin. Burke falls overboard during a fight with Helen's gang, and the ship lands with the jewels still in Sylvia's possession. After Helen invites Sylvia to her home and recovers the loot, Burke reappears to inform her of Helen's deception. Another battle with the gang ensues, and Helen is killed while trying to save Burke's life. Once the case is solved, Burke and Sylvia marry.
- Chester Waddington secretly marries society girl Patricia Flynn, a fact that is revealed at a party celebrating her engagement to another suitor. A brawl ensues, during which Chester defeats his would-be rival. After searching the city for apartments, the lovers buy a home in the suburbs on the installment plan. Chester takes an option on a plot of land, believing the proceeds will make them wealthy. However, Chester's employer declares the plot to be worthless and fires him. The couple endure weeks of struggle, until the land suddenly becomes a valuable asset.
- Cardinal Richelieu is desirous of embarrassing his king and D'Artagnan for political purposes. Employs Milady de Winter to help his cause. D'Artagnan, however, is faithful to his queen and sweetheart, Constance, the latter in her services as spy. Milady is captured but a traitor aids her to escape. However, she has her revenge by poisoning Constance and in turn is beheaded.
- Keith Drummond, a penniless youth from a well-known family, is advised by John Lathrop to put on a wealthy front and work hard in order to be successful. With money borrowed from Lathrop, Keith takes only the first part of the advice and plunges into a social whirl. He marries nouveau riche Helen Baxter, but one day he denounces his whole way of life and leaves to work in the western oil fields. They are reunited when Keith establishes himself and Helen is reduced to poverty.
- Following his parents' deaths, Bill O'Hara is reared by the Clairbornes, who own the local newspaper and have their own son, Sam. Just before Mr. Clairborne's death, Bill becomes heir to the estate and Sam is disowned because of his dope addiction. Because the newspaper is losing money, Bill plots a bogus "murder" to create news, and the town is soon in an uproar. When Sam's body is found in the swamps, evidence points to his foster brother Bill; De Muidde, the backer of the narcotics gang, seeks to avenge himself for the exposé by having Bill lynched. Mrs. Clairborne arrives just in time, however, with Sam's suicide note, which clears Bill.
- Chuck Warner and three friends go east and try to pass Chuck off as the long-lost son of millionaire Milton DePuyster. When DePuyster avers that he never had a son, the group causes a commotion sufficient to bring out the police. Chuck admits his ruse, but he is revealed to be Mrs. DePuyster's son by an earlier marriage.
- British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about Eldred, who is so devastated he disappears, an apparent suicide. His wife flees into the desert, with Manners in hot pursuit. She is taken in by an unlikely rescuer and years later, after she becomes a nurse when World War I ends, she makes a startling discovery.
- Sherry Mason, the playboy son of wealthy parents, lives a life of self-indulgence until he meets Nadia Meredith, the daughter of a poor bookseller. Smitten with her, he asks her to marry him but she refuses, detecting an evil streak hidden beneath his surface. He heads to Paris with his father's crooked business partner, where they get mixed up in a murder and Mason must flee back to the US, where he once again runs into Nadia under an entirely different set of circumstances.
- Adora Winstanley, Broadway's newest idol, receives the adoration of many wealthy men, but Billy Kelvin wins her heart. They are married--to the great displeasure of Billy's father, a leader in New York society, who offers money to Adora in exchange for Billy's freedom. She refuses, and Mr. Kelvin desperately hatches a plot in which a young man lures Adora to his yacht; she (Kelvin assumes) compromises herself, and Billy witnesses his wife's disgrace. Adora proves faithful, however, and the elder Kelvin finally concedes her worthiness.
- In 1899, Kansas farmer Wade Harkin and his wife Ruth pull up stakes and head for the Alaskan gold fields to make their fortune. When they reach Seattle, Washington, Wade tells Ruth to meet him aboard their ship going north, but when she arrives, she is unable to find him because he is involved in a private poker game. As the boat pulls out of the harbor, Ruth jumps into the bay and returns to town. Securing a waitressing job at a waterfront cafe, she meets a gambler and dancehall owner named "Lucky" Vail and his "lady friend," dancer "Chicago Belle." Lucky likes Ruth and acts as her protector, but she ignores his attentions. One night, a menacing man named Dugan follows her home, and Ruth shoots him. Fearing a murder charge, she escapes the city by stowing away on a boat to Alaska. Also on board is Chicago Belle, traveling to Nome to entertain at one of Lucky's dancehalls. However, a storm wrecks the ship at sea. Belle drowns, and Ruth takes her identity. Living alone in Nome, Ruth has Wade's baby and works at the dancehall. When Lucky comes looking for Belle, he is surprised to discover Ruth in her place, but realizes he loves her. Soon afterward, Ruth's husband, Wade Harkin, arrives in town to see Belle's show, and is surprised to find Ruth instead. Lucky and Wade fight in the street for her, but during the fisticuffs, an anonymous bystander shoots and kills Wade. Badly beaten, Lucky staggers into Ruth's open arms.
- James Benton marries much younger Alice Torrance, who is from from the city, but she soon finds it difficult to adjust to the small town and Benton's preoccupation with his oil wells. When Benton is away, Alice leaves him. Longtime admirer Duncan Phelps, appears in her train compartment, and Alice repulses him just as there is a train wreck. Benton finds Alice's farewell note at the moment he hears of the wreck, but when Alice returns on the rescue train they reunite.
- While sailing near the Florida coast, Tom, who is feeling jilted after seeing his sweetheart, Florence, in his rival's arms, is injured and cast ashore on an island after his motorboat is struck by lightning. There he is nursed by Lola, a doctor's daughter; and to allay the suspicions of Florence and her guardian, Tom declares that Lola is his wife. In her pique, Florence tries to implicate Tom in a crime, but Lola accepts the blame instead. The rival exposes Florence's trickery, and Tom marries his island girl.
- Cherry, the youngest daughter of Dr. Strickland, marries Martin Lloyd; and Peter, a neighbor who was in love with her, unhappily begins a world tour. Returning home, Peter finds that the doctor has died, leaving the older daughter, Alix, alone; and he marries her out of desperation. Cherry, unhappy with her marriage, leaves her husband and comes to live with her sister and Peter; learning that Peter still loves her, Cherry agrees to run away with him, but they are discovered by his wife and upbraided. Martin is injured in a logging camp accident, and Cherry, realizing that she still loves her husband, goes to him. Peter resolves to free Alix, but she forgives him and they agree to start anew.
- Barbara Hastings, a hostess in an Adirondacks resort, settles the rivalry between artist Stanley Roberts and banker Ralph Westley by choosing Roberts to be her husband. Westley's jealousy will not let him accept the situation, however, and he throws temptation into Roberts' path by anonymously buying the artist's work. Roberts becomes extravagant, and his attention wanders to an attractive widow, but Barbara remains faithful, even when Westley offers her her old job. Finally realizing the futility of his efforts, Westley helps to reunite Roberts with his wife.
- An early Mutt and Jeff cartoon.
- Rancher Cal Horton, who has suffered considerably at the hands of cattle rustlers who have become a menace to local life and property, is called on by the United States Government to track down the outlaws. Horton visits his sweetheart, Ethel Stanton, informs her of his mission, and bids her goodbye. The foreman of a neighboring ranch, noted for his moral qualities but actually in league with the cattle thieves, seeks the hand of Ethel and suggests to her that Horton is an outlaw, causing her to break the engagement. Meanwhile, Horton travels day and night to overtake the rustlers, and although placed in many perilous encounters manages to escape his enemies; soon the sheriff and his men come to his rescue, and the guilty foreman is punished. Horton is rewarded by the government and marries Ethel.
- The film begins in a comic vein--bordering on farce--and continues so up to the point where Eleanor Douglas is about to marry young district attorney William Bradley. She drinks the glass of water offered to her by Dr. Paul Graydon and loses consciousness. Pronounced dead by Dr. Graydon, Eleanor is buried; but a cat, which also drinks from the glass, apparently dies, is about to be buried, but suddenly regains consciousness. Bradley hastens to exhume Eleanor's body, finds the coffin empty, and finally discovers Eleanor at Dr. Graydon's--lying on an operating table, still in her wedding dress, the doctor on the floor dead. Eleanor is suspected of shooting Graydon, but her sister confesses. The scene then fades back to the wedding, where Eleanor awakens from a fainting spell and realizes she has been dreaming.
- Helen Dobson, an art student traveling in Arabia with her father, wishes to paint the portrait of Sheik Hammid Zayad, but the Arab explains that the custom of his country does not permit it. Against the advice of her father and Steve Kinard, a Texas cowboy employed to buy horses, Helen accepts the sheik's invitation to visit his camp, where he promises to show her treasures to satisfy her interest in the picturesque. Helen's horse returns riderless. Suspecting that the sheik is holding her against her will, Steve and Mr. Dobson, after several adventures, rescue Helen.
- Olympia Brewster marries John Brainerd to escape a life of drudgery and immediately realizes that he does not love her but only desires her physically. She leaves a suicide note and starts for her uncle's home, pausing only to see a woman shoot at her husband, apparently fatally. Some years later she marries George Packard, a successful lawyer who becomes mayor. A private secretary whom he hires turns out to be Brainerd, who blackmails Packard into rejecting a nomination for governor. But just as he is starting his speech, Olympia finds proof that Brainerd was already married when he married her.
- Kate Claybourne is too busy with her literary career to notice that her husband, Bartley, is providing the finery for her flapper sister, Peggy Kendricks. When she does find out, she seeks a divorce, with the understanding that Bartley will marry Peggy. But Peggy, who toys with many men's hearts, marries Ralph Demarest, thereby cutting off Ralph from his disapproving father's fortune. Peggy accepts money from Horace Demarest to leave Ralph but then flings it in Ralph's face and urges him to make a man of himself. Peggy stands by Ralph, wins Horace's affection, and reunites the Claybournes.
- Lumberman Dave Malkern fires drunk brother Jim for dereliction of duty. Jim seeks revenge by dynamiting the sawmill.
- A Texas Ranger is hired by a cattleman to stop a gang of rustlers who are stealing his cattle. Unbeknownst to the owner, the gang is actually headed by his foreman.
- Fred Cummings brings his young wife to an isolated northern trading post on the Hudson Bay, where she becomes the idol of the 17 inhabitants. She is particularly idolized by Jan Allaire, a young man inexperienced with women, who sees in Nancy the girl of his dreams. Blanding, a New York fur trader, arrives at the post, and his advances toward Nancy are noticed by Jan and his friends. According to their code of honor, they swear to protect her against Blanding. Nancy's husband disappears while on a trapping mission, and Jan discovers his frozen body but tells Nancy he is only injured. Blanding attempts an attack upon Nancy but is thrashed and sent from the post by Jan and his friends. Forcing the truth from Jan, Nancy takes her child and returns to the United States, but Jan remains hopeful that someday she will return to him.