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- A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
- A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
- Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing.
- An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
- A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
- Melodrama about a man who heads into the Northwest after he mistakenily believes he has killed another man and is followed there by his sister.
- Good has always defeated Bad, so can Truth be overcome by Evil?
- A young man (Rawlinson) spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl (Bow). She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by a letcherous Adventurer (Williams). The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards niagra falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart. Their mode of rescue, a rope ladder hung from an airplane. They are reconciled and the letcher gets his dues.
- Upon his release from prison, Jim Regan, who had been framed for theft by Dan Norris, is jailed again for attempting to shoot Norris. His friend Wally, seeking work at the Bar X ranch, is held up by "Angel-Face," a member of Denver Dan's gang. Realizing his victim is faint from hunger, he shares his food with him and the two decide to become partners and get work together at the ranch. Regan is released on the understanding he will not leave town and goes to the Weston ranch to see Wally. Hiram, Wally's father, sends him away, but when Regan is found dead near the ranch, Hiram is arrested for the murder. Overhearing Norris admit to the crime, Angel-Face informs Wally but is himself shot by the culprit, who then escapes. Wally follows and captures him. Angel-Face recovers, Hiram is released, and Wally marries Ruth, the daughter of Regan.
- John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields--who, unbeknownst to Marian, is playing around with a variety of different women. Marian finds out and breaks the engagement. John goes off to fight in the war and returns blinded. Robert turns up dead, and Marian and John are charged with his murder.
- Following a shipwreck, a family of prospectors become separated from their infant daughter in the Klondike. Years later, the grown-up daughter begins to unravel the truth about her heritage.
- Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married.
- Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
- A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower. John Alden, After numerous adventures at sea and with Indians on land, John Alden is asked by his friend Myles Standish to seek for him the romantic favor of his secret beloved, Priscilla Mullens. But Priscilla has eyes for another: John Alden.
- The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate. The Boy takes his invention to Ryan and is mistaken by him for Bordanni, a speedboat racer. In order to present his invention properly, The Boy, totally unprepared and hysterical, is forced to drive Ryan's boat. He is accompanied by a crooked mechanic put on board by Gerald Deane, who is interested in wrecking the boat. More by luck than skill, the boy wins the race, convinces Ryan of the efficacy of the life preserver, and wins the love of Rose.
- A newspaper reporter, Phyllis Dale, tries to help get her younger sister "Bobby" out of a scandal situation, and soon finds herself mired deep into the same situation.
- An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
- Following a party, Sherry Gillespie, a U.S. Mail flyer, awakens to find himself in a strange apartment and is shown evidence by Cleo Roberts that they were married the previous evening. Bart Sheldon, a crook, plots with an associate to pilot Sherry's plane and cautions Cleo not to let the pilot escape. When Sherry escapes and returns to the flying field, he is suspended, then estranged from Alice, his fiancée, by the appearance of Cleo, who is scheming with Sheldon to obtain part of an inheritance that Sherry is to receive if he earns $10,000 in a year. Following a series of fast complications, Sherry tracks down the gang: swinging from a motorcycle to a rope ladder, he mounts a plane, encounters the robber's plane, and fights with the villains. He and Sheldon parachute to the ground, and Sherry is finally vindicated in the eyes of his girl and his employer.
- Herbert Landis, who secretly loves Anne Travers, is sent by her father to supervise construction of a bridge in Oregon. Anne insists that society man Hilary Fenton join the party, and as a result Landis broods in his cabin, which he shares with his foreman Ole Bergson. Ole, who claims to know all about love, disguises himself as well-known desperado Blackie Blanchette and kidnaps Anne, leaving a note urging Landis to "rescue" her; however, Ole is captured by the real Blackie. While a raging forest fire breaks out, Landis rides to the cabin and confronts Blackie; as the fire reaches the cabin, Blackie meets a fiery death while Landis and Anne stagger through the flames to the river. The other suitor, finding country customs too rough, departs, leaving Anne to discover her true love.
- Steve O'Dare, a western rancher with little use for the effete East, is forced to go to New York on business and wires his club begging the crowd to provide him with a little action. On the train to Manhattan, Steve is attracted to a beautiful and mysterious woman, whom he later sees at a nightclub. In order to close an important deal, Steve goes to the house of Count von Eckmann, where he once again encounters the girl, who is screaming for help. Steve is forced to fight off a gang of criminals, knocking some out and shooting at others. After a series of fistic encounters and strange disappearances, Steve fights his way to the dining room of Eckmann's house, where he finds the entire company of "criminals" at a formal dinner. Realizing that he has been on the receiving end of a practical joke, Steve grabs the girl and takes her off to visit a preacher.
- Dan Williams leaves his small hometown in disgrace, and travels to New York City to try his luck on Broadway. He gets a small part in a Broadway show, but his press agent releases a story that he has a big part and is making $3,000 a week. Dan's father, a banker who is facing a run on his bank, hears about Dan's sudden "fortune" and asks him for financial help. Complications ensue.
- To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers. Aunt Pearl would like Bonnie to marry small-town capitalist Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie is in love with young lawyer Art Binger. Binger eventually effects a release from prison for Mr. Day just at the height of Bonnie's business career.
- A former Scottish military officer is wrongly accused while living in the US of murder and is imprisoned. The person responsible for the crime confesses which allows the former officer to be released from prison.
- Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas.
- International crook Michael Lanyard, alias "The Lone Wolf," offers to recover stolen plans for a defense apparatus in exchange for asylum in the United States. He meets Lucy Shannon, a member of the gang, called "The Pack," suspected of having the stolen plans. Lucy assists Lanyard in obtaining the plans and later helps him escape from the other members of the gang. Together, in a daring airplane ride, they deliver the plans. Lanyard learns that Lucy is a Secret Service agent.
- Mary's mother, who is eager to advance socially, chooses Algernon Emptihead as a fiancé for her daughter, Mary. On her wedding day, Mary flees to the farm of a friend, and there she meets Joe, who fulfills in every way her ideal of a proper lover. Mary's mother discovers her refuge and captures the truant. Mary then accompanies her mother to a seaside resort, and Joe joins the party disguised as a chauffeur. Algernon stages a fake rescue in an attempt to win Mary's affections, but Joe foils his plan by abducting Mary in an airplane. Upon learning that Joe is a millionaire, Mary's mother declares her satisfaction with her daughter's choice in suitors.
- A mechanic with the French Air Force, Vanesse sabotages the plane of Capt. Charles Nungesser, France's Flying Fiend, by placing Paul Willard's flying insignia in Nungesser's intake manifold. Paul is accused of the deed and sentenced to 20 years in a military prison. Six years later, the Willards, a wealthy American family, arrive in France, searching for Paul, who had run away to war. They interview Vanesse, who informs them that Paul died like a hero in the war. The Willards then meet Nungesser, who falls in love with Lucille, Paul's sister, and makes a silent resolution to arrange for Paul's pardon. This he does, and then goes to the United States to find Vanesse and to discover the truth about Paul's case. Nungesser discovers that Vanesse is planning to rob the air mail; with Paul's help, he captures Vanesse and recovers the loot. Vanesse dies from the effects of a plane crash; Paul is cleared of all guilt and marries his former sweetheart, Marie, with Nungesser and Lucille are swept to the heights on the wings of happiness.
- A Yankee and a duchess's runaway niece pose as a society couple.
- The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.
- After being wrongly accused of robbery and murder, a kind, gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.
- Two ex-jailbirds join up with a con man. After saving a farm girl's life, they are rewarded with lodging by her widowed mother. The older man and the con man devise a plan to swindle the generous lady by convincing her that a valuable mineral spring exists on her land.
- John Kavanagh, a Maine lumberman, clashes with Stephen Marthorn, owner of a spruce-logging company, when Marthorn orders his men to make their drive before Cavanagh can get his logs down the river. His daughter, Clare, is disliked by Cora Marthorn, but Cora's brother, Kenneth, refuses to join the fight against the lumberman. Marthorn finds aid in Donald Kezar, a former friend of Kavanagh's who turned against him when refused his daughter's hand. Kavanagh has a heart attack and prepares for his death, instructing his daughter to make the drive. Clare, dressed in white, and the townsfolk accompany his body to the church. Learning that Kenneth is on her side, she succeeds in getting the logs to the mill with his aid, and they are happily married.
- Orphaned by the death of their mother, Nanette, a tightrope walker, and her brother, who acts as a trained ape, are left under the cruel guardianship of Sigmund, the strongman, who is also a rum runner. Nanette falls in love with young Lieutenant Allan Dale and sees him secretly. When she attends a masquerade ball with Allan, Sigmund discovers her escapade and gives her a severe beating. Allan and his friend Riley, ordered to San Pedro, come to see Nanette in her act and say goodbye. Her little brother accidentally exposes Sigmund's fraudulent weights, and in the ensuing struggle Allan and Riley are pitted against Sigmund and his men while Nanette and her brother flee to a tramper bound for San Pedro, which happens to be Sigmund's. Allan's Coast Guard cutter pursues them and drives them on the rocks. Nanette and her brother are attacked by Sigmund, who is killed by Nanette just as Allan arrives to rescue them.
- Kenneth Bellwood, an unscrupulous broker, discovers that hated business rival Robert Casson has secured a valuable option in Brazil and quickly determines to keep Robert in New York until it expires, arranging with Grace Barrows (a cabaret dancer who needs money to help her sick mother) to use her wiles to keep Robert at home. Robert quickly falls under her spell, and Grace increasingly regrets her duplicity. Grace's innocent young sister, Alice, comes to New York and falls under Bellwood's influence. Learning that Alice is going to visit Bellwood's apartment, Grace goes there herself, accompanied by Evelyn Dolores, Bellwood's former mistress. Grace leaves, Evelyn kills Bellwood, and Alice is accused of the crime. Evelyn commits suicide, leaving a note confessing to the crime. Robert forgives Grace, and Alice is sent home.
- Several years after the war, during which they were decorated, Whitey and Skeeter are blowing safes for a living. While pulling off a job, Skeeter is surprised by the police and killed. Taken into custody, Whitey learns that a lounge lizard named Mal, who hangs around on the edge of the underworld, is the police informer responsible for Skeeter's death. Whitey is held as a material witness, but, through the good offices of an old Army buddy, he is released. Looking for Kitty, his underworld sweetheart, who has gone to the country to find peace and quiet, Whitey finds her in a small town and, believing her to be in love with Fred Morton, a bank clerk, pretends that he has found another girl. Mal arrives in town as the advance man for a confidence agent who poses as an evangelist, and he persuades Evelyn, the daughter of Skeeter's mother, with whom she is living, to elope with him. Kitty learns of this and, in order to expose Mal, tells the story of her own criminal past. Fred drops her, and Kitty tries to drown herself in the river. Whitey saves her life, and exposes Fred as an embezzler.
- While visiting her uncle, the American consul in Tangier, Morocco, a young woman offends a powerful Arab sultan whose henchman kidnap her.
- When Ezra Tilden, a shiftless husband and notorious alcoholic, is accused of murdering Mark McWade, the community sets out to lynch him, but his courageous and strong-willed wife, Martha, admits to the crime. She tells the crowd how young McWade enticed her daughter, Sally, to a secret rendezvous; warned by Simon, she followed and horsewhipped the scoundrel, who, enraged, confessed to murdering her son, and in a scuffle, McWade was killed. John Mason, the sheriff, who is in love with Sally, appears to take Martha's part, and suddenly, Simon, a half-witted, deformed lad who has witnessed the struggle and who is dying from a fall, crawls into the crowd and confesses that he shot the villain to save Martha. Sally finds happiness with Sheriff Mason.
- Rose Manning, on her way home, is overtaken by a storm and compelled to take refuge in a roadhouse with Herbert Olden. When the lodge is raided by prohibition enforcement agents, Rose leaves by a window only partially clothed and escapes with Herbert. Reaching home, she finds her husband, John, waiting for her; and seeing her wearing Olden's coat, he assumes the worst and orders her from the house. Olden's mother, knowing her to be innocent, persuades her to see John again, which she does but to no avail. In despair, Rose accepts Herbert's proposal of marriage, following her divorce from John, but when Herbert discovers that Rose is about to become a mother, he resolves to effect a reconciliation and informs John of her condition. On their wedding night, John appears and repudiates his hasty conclusion. There is a mutual reconciliation.
- Nell Bradley, the daughter of a prosperous bootlegger, is encouraged by Rev. Charles Alden to change her way of life and improve herself with some education. She is finally convinced; saves Amy Robinson from the designs of a New York bootlegger; eventually wins the goodwill of the previously hostile community, which sends her to college; and takes her place as Mrs. Charles Alden.
- In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. The story then presents Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her a self-centered, superficial spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief, and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
- Canadian woodsman Jules Lamont leaves his wife, Zephne, after a misunderstanding and becomes infatuated with Joe Cateau's bride, a showgirl. Joe is killed when the two men fight, and Jules goes to prison, where he meets Pierre Lebec, an inmate who closely resembles Jules. When Jules learns that Pierre is about to be released, he persuades him to go to his own home and pose as Jules himself. Pierre does so and falls in love with Zephne, who believes him to be Jules. Pierre remains in disguise, "the man between," until the real Lamont returns and is killed. Then Zephne learns the truth about Pierre, and they marry.
- Pvt. Frank Stafford of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to bring in his brother, Donald, who is wanted for murder and wife desertion. The trail leads toward the cabin of Sandy McKenna, a blind old widower who lives with his daughter, Lorna, and Jeanie, who has married Donald against McKenna's wishes. McKenna, however, welcomes Clay Hamilton, Lorna's sweetheart, accompanied by Sandow, his police dog, who rescues Jeanie from attempted suicide. Donald evades the police but is found by Sandow and brought to Jeanie's cabin. Pursued by Clay, Donald overcomes him, but Sandow unbinds his master and rescues him after saving Jeanie from the rapids. Frank and Donald fight aboard a raft heading for the rapids; Donald is killed when thrown from the raft, but Frank makes it to shore.
- Laddie Ferguson arrives from overseas and gets work in a lumber camp in Nova Scotia. He becomes a rival with Ed Spencer for the hand of Mary, the foreman's daughter. Spencer is turned down and he calls a strike. Laddie calls upon the Cape Breton Highlanders, camped nearby, for assistance and they go to the camp and break up the strike. Mary and Laddie marry.
- A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
- The crooked brother of a cowboy working in a wild west circus comes to the show and coax the owner's daughter to marry him. All the while, stringing a one of the performers along. The cowboy has evidence his brother stole valuable oil lands, but attempts to use it to bargain the brother into doing the right thing-until it's stolen.
- Shortly after his marriage, a millionaire begins an affair with another woman. His wife tries to win him back by starting an affair herself.
- A girl renounces her love to care for her insane father so that her mother may marry again.