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- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- The courage of women is often blind when love speaks. A woman finds herself in this strangest of predicaments; she faces the man whom she promised to marry after having given her hand to another. The deserted lover has the woman absolutely in his power; he is an officer in the Turkish army and the woman has just been brought before him as a captive. He tells her he will keep her in death as he cannot have her in life and prepares to embark in a torpedo boat, taking the woman with him after he had bored a hole in the little destroyer. Death seems certain to the woman, when the loyalty of a poor wretch whom she befriended in distress presents a means of salvation. Omar Bey is the Turkish ambassador at the Court of Greece and Helena, a beautiful Greek maiden, has fallen in love with him. They plight their troth. She is to join her lover in the spring. Alas, before the spring comes, the war spirit sweeps over the Balkans-Greece arms against her hereditary foe and Helena, yielding to the demands of her parents, gives her hand in marriage to Demos, one of her own countrymen and one of the commanders of the Greek fleet. The war goes on week after week and month after month. Helena has joined the army as a nurse and has found contentment in her marriage. It so happens that Helena falls into the hands of the Turks and into the hands of the man she had promised to marry. Relief to Helena seems impossible. The Turkish army is entrenched along the coast and before the Greek vessels can land their troops, Omar Bey will have dragged his fair victim to the bottom of the sea. The faithful servitor of Helena, whom she had years ago saved from an angry mob in Athens, proposes to hide her in a torpedo and to be shot across the waters on board the ironclad commanded by Demos, her husband. Helena does not hesitate a moment. Bravely she allows her humble friend to place her in a torpedo. The friend arranges to have the dangers of death minimized by wrapping Helena in big wads of cotton. The torpedo with its human freight is hurled toward the Greek warship, but it falls short of its aim, dropping into the water. It is seized by Greek sailors. Upon opening the projectile it is found to contain Helena. Helena is united to her husband, while the Turkish officer finds too late that his devilish scheme has been foiled.
- A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.
- A young novice leaves the convent for a knight. Unlike the better-known 1959 film "The Miracle", this version is set in medieval times.
- Florian, a traveling minstrel, is journeying along the highway with his gypsy-like troupe of men and women, when they see moving toward them a strange and terrified procession. They are leading a witch to the stake to be burned. Everything is made ready for the execution, the fagots await the touch of the match and the strong armed executioner seizes the girl and makes her fast to the stake. An old law is proclaimed before the execution is begun. According to this law, if any freeman comes forward from among the spectators and marries the "witch" she will be purged from her sin, but the law goes on to say that if she repays her benefactor husband with ingratitude, then the old judgment of death shall be revived and she shall forthwith be led to her death. Florian is touched with love and pity and marries the "witch." Her husband instructs her in the art of playing the lute, and one day as they play before the castle of one of the Dukes of the realm, the Duke falls in love with her. The "witch" resists the advances of the Duke. In the meantime the jealousy and rage of Fascha, who regarded Florian as her sweetheart, causes the arrest of Florian on the false charge of arson. Florian is brought before the court and condemned to life imprisonment, a punishment which the Duke alone has the power to remit. The Duke, who has been a party to this false accusation in order to gain possession of the "witch," promises to pardon Florian if his wife will kiss him. Florian, who sees his wife kissing the Duke, believes that she has been faithless to him. Florian appeals to the law and demands that sentence of death be carried out against his supposedly unfaithful wife. At this moment, the Duke hears the voice of Conscience and touched by the fidelity of the "witch," he proves her innocence and then pardons Florian, who is happily restored to his wife.
- Alex Sandow, wrestler and strong man of the circus, holds in his hand a photograph of his wife and himself. The wife, unable to contend with the vicissitudes of circus life, has left him, taking their baby boy, and sacrificing her happiness in the knowledge that her husband had possibilities of a great future as a wrestler. Unknown to his wife and son. Hans, now twenty-one years of age, fate has directed the circus to the village where they are residing. The customary challenge is issued on behalf of the wrestler, and Hans is persuaded by his friends to accept it. Hans is in ignorance of his relationship to his opponent. The bout commences and Hans is severely thrown. With a thud he alights on his neck, and to the horror of the onlookers, he remains motionless. A hasty examination results in the discovery that he is dead. While the unfortunate mother is being summoned, Sandow sees a locket hanging around his victim's neck, and he instantly recognizes it as being a present which he gave his wife. Husband and wife meet, and overcome by the awfulness of the tragedy, Alex Sandow dies of heart failure. The last scene of this touching drama shows the unfortunate widow tending the grave of her dear departed.
- The self-exiled scion of a noble house was called to the home of his ancestors and returns to the wilds of South America disgusted with the thin veneer of civilization
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- The first scenes take us to a temple beside the shores of a sacred river where virgins, clad in white, directed by solemn gray-bearded priests, go through the ritual of the worship of the lotus flower. While the sweet rites of worship are being observed in the temple, a troop of English soldiers, led by Sir Percy Grenville, their commander, approaches the temple. The English party is in pursuit of native hostiles, who have taken a trail leading to the temple. The worship is rudely interrupted by the coming of the English soldiers. Their commander, attracted by a glittering sacred jewel in the head of Buddha, ignores the protests of the priestess and wails of the priest, tears the precious stone from the sockets of the eyeball. Metta, the priestess, and Kassapa, a rich Brahmin, resolve, before the altar of Buddha to recover the diamond of their God at all costs. Sir Percy is recalled to England, and Metta and Kassapa embark on the same vessel. A silent but determined struggle for the possession of the diamond ensues. Sir Percy keeps the sacred jewel in spite of all, and landing in England, promises to give it to his bride on their wedding day. Metta and Kassapa, in various disguises, try to get possession of the diamond, but the precious stone is safely stowed away in the safe of Sir Percy's father-in-law. Metta has now fallen in love with the handsome English officer, and opposes the plan of Kassapa to kill him in order to obtain the diamond. Just as the goblet is taken up by the British officer, and he is about to touch his lips to the rim of the cup, Metta dashes it from his hands. She still however, is determined to recover the diamond, and when on a sailing trip with Sir Percy and his fiancée, the former falls overboard and cannot swim. Forgetful of her love and devotion to the cause of Buddha and at the risk of her life, she jumps overboard and brings Sir Percy safely to the shore. The last attempt is made to get possession of the sacred jewel. Metta and Kassapa, in the dead of night, steal into the room of Sir Percy, and are about to open the safe when Ethel, fiancée of Sir Percy, surprises them. The whole truth now comes out. Metta and Kassapa declare that they have come to recover their god's jewel, and point to the ill-luck that it has so far brought to Sir Percy. Ethel and her father decide to restore the jewel to the possession of the priestess and her companion. Metta, however, bears back with her to far off India, not only the sacred jewel, but a deathly wound in her heart. She cannot forget Sir Percy, and when she is once more within the hollow shades of the temple, she dances with a devotion and fervor which she has never displayed before, for her beating heart tells her that this is to be her last dance before the altar of her God. As she completes the dance her heart fails and she dies.
- The story itself tells of an old nobleman who had four sons, three of whom were worthless wastrels, while the fourth, who managed his father's estate, was a loyal and honest son. The father, indulgent, and himself fond of life, favors the three worthless sons, with whom he is very generous with his money. He does not know their true character, but is warned by a friend, a prince, as to the profligate lives led by these sons. He at first makes light of the warning, but reading in the paper that the sons are gamblers, and resort with bad women, his doubts are confirmed. He decides to put his sons to the test by feigning death. This ruse reveals their true character. The three worthless sons almost openly rejoice at their father's death, and burn their father's will. The youngest son, although his father had treated him harshly, refusing his consent to a marriage with a poor man's daughter, shows sincere and deep sorrow at his father's death. The result is that the scale falls from the father's eyes. He casts off the three renegades and reinstates his youngest son in his favor.
- The strange and thrilling story of a dual life.
- Paolo, a young Corsican, is entangled in a feud, and the police of the island are pursuing him with great vigor. He is paying a secret visit to his sweetheart, when he catches sight of an officer disappearing through a window of the house. Paolo suspects that his sweetheart has been flirting with the officer and sets out to capture him. Paolo, however, is a strange composite of revengefulness and good heartedness for, when, in the course of the pursuit he sees his enemy fall into the water, and about to drown, he is touched with pity and swiftly dismounting his horse, saves him from death. This, however, does not abate the fury of other police officers and there ensues a series of thrilling escapes and adventures. He is aided by his brother in whose fishing hut he finds shelter. The officers, however, are soon upon his trail and he hides himself in a stack of hay. The officers make a thorough search of the house without finding any trace of their man. When the captain bribes the young nephew of Paolo with the gift of a new watch, the little boy points to the haystack, which is set on fire. Paolo is captured, but there is a most sensational rescue. Paolo is brought to his brother's home mortally wounded. He forgives the little traitor and when the officers surround the house and the captain enters the room, he discovers that Paolo has been summoned before another court.
- The owner of the great works seen in the film is afflicted with insomnia, and uses chloroform. His daughter, Eva, loves young Dennison, her father's engineer, much to the chagrin of Briggs, the works' manager. The latter uses every endeavor to belittle Ralph in the eyes of his sweetheart, and is present at the inspection of a huge chimney under course of repair. Eva and her father are also present, and Briggs insinuates that Ralph is afraid, when Eva dissuades him from journeying to the top of the shaft. On the way home, Eva's little brother forms one of the party, and Ralph, ever willing, is prevailed upon to procure a ball of cord for the youngster's kite; also the usual modicum of drugs for Eva's father. Briggs, during the absence of the younger man, forces his attentions on Eva while she is boating with her brother, and is repulsed. He evolves a scheme of revenge, and, at night, goes to the shaft, which he ascends from the inside and removes the top series of steps from its walls. On the following morning Ralph is given a letter warning him against Briggs, and in which Eva entreats him not to trust him. The works' manager is standing near and again taunts Ralph with his fear, with the result that the latter decides to ascend the chimney forthwith. Eva and her father arrive to witness the two men nearing the top of the huge shaft, and the girl's fears are soon realized to the full, for a violent quarrel is seen to be going on between the two, A few seconds later and the pulley block and rope come hurtling through space, Briggs having detached them from the cross bar, thus cutting off communication with the ground below. A terrific struggle follows, and the two men are seen at each other's throats on a perilous footing afforded by the brickwork. The brave workmen are making efforts to scale the interior, but are prevented by Brigg's rascally scheme. Ralph suddenly thinks of the cord for the youngster's kite, and is dropping this down when Briggs overpowers him. At last the villain dozes, tired out from his exertions, and Ralph, taking the drug from his pocket, plentifully dopes him, then throws down a note requesting the boy to fly the kite as soon as daylight permits. At dawn the kite is skillfully raised and we see it near the top of the shaft, where Ralph and the now securely bound Briggs are. The latter does not move, but Dennison is too intent upon the kite to notice him. At last the frail messenger of deliverance is within reach, and Ralph takes the revolver from Briggs' side, firing several shots as a signal. A rope is drawn up, and Ralph is enabled to reach the men who have scaled far up the interior of the chimney. He is assisted to earth and is seen to have turned absolutely gray from his trial. Briggs is found to be dead, having succumbed to the overdose of chloroform, Ralph is charged with manslaughter, but is finally acquitted of the charge, and the last scene shows the lovers free at last from care and delivered from a villain's treachery.
- A tragedy about the invention of the videophone.
- Depicts the media story of Count Arthur Hamilton who died in the British castle of Clyde under mysterious circumstances.