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- The story of the life of Christ.
- Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family to write about.
- A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
- A pawnbroker, widely despised, called Mästerman is the subject of tales of terror and cruelty. In his profession, he is merciless.
- Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila ( Dorothy Gish ) works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne ( Richard Barthelmess ), the proprietor's son realizes that Sheila is excessively fond of dancing, asks her out without the benefit of a proper introduction, and she indignantly refuses. Soon afterwards, however, the two fall in love and secretly marry. Sheila's father insists that Tom's parents be informed, but when the young groom breaks the news, they react with such anger that Tom leaves home. Meanwhile, Sheila remains with the Ballantynes as their ward on the condition that she keep her marriage and her lineage a secret. One evening, Sheila decides to visit her father's theater but is discovered there by the Ballantynes. Infuriated, she vents her anger at the snobbish family and returns home with her father, but Tom follows her, and in the end, all of the parties are reconciled.
- Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has two suitors - struggling architect John Marshall, and wealthy clothing designer Charles Munson. Scorning her father's plea for her to curb her passion for beautiful clothes and live more modestly, she trips and is knocked unconscious. In a dream, Irene's father goes to Munson for financial assistance and Munson agrees, in exchange for her father agreeing to try to influence Irene to marry him. When it is announced at Irene's birthday party that she and Marshall have secretly married, Munson refuses to lend the money to Irene's father, who then kills himself with a pistol. After a series of tragic events, Irene awakens, and decides to marry Marshall.
- Adeline, a sculptor, and Pierre, a painter, have both won the Grand Prize at the Rome Salon. They marry and are overjoyed. However, Pierre has previously had an affair with the Polish Countess Wanda, who does not want to forget him and orders a painted portrait in order to be with him. During a walk in the ruins of Villa Hadriana, she seduces the painter, and Adeline, observing everything from atop the ruins, collapses with emotion, leaving her blind from now on. Her blindness is symbolic and is at the same time a psychological blockage: she has seen more than she ever wanted to see. Adeline tries to sculpt again in her studio, but she is no longer successful, so she wants to commit suicide with a revolver. However, she hears noises from her husband's studio; it is the countess trying to convince Pierre to put Adeline in a clinic so that nothing will stand in the way of their relationship. Furious, she opens the door to shoot at her rival, but being blind she fires at random. Who did she hit? She wants to recognize the victim by touch; and the urge to see the victim is so strong that her eye-blockage disappears. It is Pierre who is stricken, but he will ultimately survive because of the care that, consumed by remorse, she gives him.
- A young bank clerk wants to marry her, but Nell Fanshawe decides that soda clerk John Stanley is the one for her. Because John does not have enough money to marry, however, Nell encourages him to go to New York, where he becomes a successful antique salesman for Jellaby and Co. Steve Ratling, a vindictive discharged salesman, convinces John to gamble the $300 he took in on a large sale, because he didn't get a deserved raise. After John loses the money, he disappears, leaving a note to Jellaby saying that his pocket was picked, but that he will repay the money. When detectives visit Nell, she goes to New York, works for Jellaby, and searches for John at soda fountains throughout the city. After she catches stenographer Nan Powderly opening a letter from John with $20 enclosed, Nell traces him. Although she is disappointed to learn that he lost the money gambling, after John confesses, both Nell and Jellaby give him another chance.
- A widowed milner must choose a new wife, but he is torn between two different women with opposite qualities. Based on the novel "Møllen" by author Karl Gjellerup.
- Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem.A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution.He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl.But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.
- When cowboy Nick McCredie notices in a second-hand book an inscription to "Emily, the prettiest girl in school," he writes to her and learns that she is a lonely Eastern farm girl living with her grandmother. Instead of sending his own picture to her, Nick encloses a photo of his handsome friend Pen Walton. After Nick sees Walton stealing two horses, Nick agrees to keep quiet, when Walton promises to reform. Meanwhile, Emily's grandmother dies, and her new guardian tries to force her to marry him. She writes to Nick, who proposes by letter. Nick meets her, but identifies himself as "Andy," and when she says she would be disappointed if Nick was not as handsome as his picture, he shows her the way to Walton, and rides off alone. After Walton rustles another horse and plants Nick's glove as evidence, he abducts Emily. She escapes, and riding the stolen horse, she leads the rest to the ranch in time to stop Nick's hanging. After the real identities are revealed, Nick and Emily marry.
- After the death of her tyrannical millionaire father, rebellious Irene Simpson-Bates decides to have a fling with her relatively meager inheritance of $15,000. Leaving her straitlaced sweetheart John Norton behind, Irene goes to New York, where she falls under the spell of unscrupulous Courtenay Urquhart. Although he has no intention of actually marrying Irene, Urquhart persuades her to elope with him and signs them into a hotel as husband and wife. Determined to save the woman he loves, John tricks Urquhart into believing that his British uncle has just left him a large inheritance. The loafer immediately sails for England, and Irene returns to John, her eyes opened and her reputation as yet untainted.
- Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market, " and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor.
- Edward Andrews, a generous but fainthearted young man, loves Frances Raymond, who believes herself to be an incurable romantic. Edward realizes that Frances would love to be whisked off and romanced, but because he is too timid to abduct her himself, he hires Michael Rudder, a breezy young Irish reporter, to do the deed. Michael's dashing manner entrances Frances, but the Irishman prefers the unencumbered life of a rover to that of a husband, and after he delivers her to the home of Edward's grandmother, he wanders away to a gypsy camp. Frances is so downhearted from losing Michael that the kindly Edward finds the reporter and convinces him to propose to the girl. Frances, moved by Edward's goodness, decides that he is the man she really loves and returns to him.
- The Hopkinses are a family of squatters struggling against the wealthy landowners or "hilltoppers." When Jerry Hopkins is unjustly imprisoned, his young wife and baby die as a result of the shock, but his sister Polly maintains the faith that has been instilled in her by her grandmother. Later, Polly meets hilltopper Robert Robertson and the two fall in love. Their courtship is disrupted when Robert's sister Evelyn is blackmailed by Oscar Bennett, the man to whom she is secretly wed. In her efforts to help Evelyn, Polly falls under unjust suspicion. Meanwhile, MacKenzie, one of the vindictive landowners, arrests Polly's father and sends her brother to an orphanage. Devastated by these events, Polly's grandmother dies of grief and Polly swears revenge. She has Evelyn kidnapped and brought to her cabin, but the memory of her grandmother prevents Polly from harming her tormentor. Polly's nobility inspires Evelyn, who exonerates Polly, thus clearing the path for her marriage to Robert.
- Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of thirst in the desert, the two fall in love. Mexican bandit Longorio, who longs to possess the beautiful Alaire, orders his men to kill her husband and take control of the ranch. The bandit captures Alaire and forces an old priest to marry them, but before the ceremony can be performed, Dave arrives and secretly marries her himself. The couple escapes and seeks refuge in a little house just inside the Mexican border, but Longorio's men pursue them and set the building on fire. Just in time, a force of United States cavalrymen arrives and conducts the couple across the Rio Grande to safety.
- When his honeymoon is over, Knox Randall shifts his attention from his wife Ailsa to his business. Feeling neglected, Ailsa accepts her sister-in-law Clarissa's advice that a little jealousy might re-ignite her husband's interest. Undertaking a harmless flirtation with playboy Porter Maddox, Ailsa discovers that Clarissa has fallen madly in love with Maddox, who is using her to accumulate confidential information regarding Wall Street secrets. When Ailsa overhears Clarissa making plans to elope with Maddox, she hurries to save her sister-in-law. Rumor spreads that Ailsa is a faithless wife and, upon hearing the gossip, George Mott-Smith, Clarissa's husband, notifies Knox and the two set out to intercept the guilty pair. Once they overtake the threesome, Ailsa tells all and Knox finally realizes the value of his wife.
- The adventures of two U.S. Secret Service men sent to Africa to bring back a man wanted for murder.
- Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
- Film adaptation of the novel "A Gyurkovics-fiúk' by author Ferenc Herczeg, starring Gösta Ekman in the lead role, and featuring opera singer Emile Stiebel.
- Trying to support her twin sisters on her own, Jane Neill lands a job working for a millionaire, but problems soon arise for the young girl when she declines the marriage proposal of the always-trustworthy Micky and falls in love with the millionaire's spoiled, lazy nephew. After she inherits the millionaire's estate along with much heartache, Jane finally comes to her senses and goes back to the ever-faithful Micky.
- Oscar drags up to help his beloved Kiki by delivering hats for the shop where she works.
- Annabelle Leigh witnessed her father's death in a fight over a mine claim, then married John Rawson, a bearded hermit who kidnapped her to protect her, and then was sent away by him because of her crying. Annabelle now lives luxuriously in a fashionable New York hotel on payments sent by Rawson. Greatly in debt, Annabelle sells her father's mining stock to unscrupulous financier George Wimbledon, but still broke and in danger of being named co-respondent in a divorce suit, she persuades Wimbledon's butler to hire her as a cook at his Long Island estate. Rawson, beardless and in town to get the stock to give him control of the mine, falls in love with Annabelle without recognizing her, and rents the mansion surreptitiously from the butler. After Annabelle recovers the stock from Wimbledon while he drunkenly sleeps, she tells Rawson she is going to find her husband and is pleasantly surprised when he reveals his identity.
- Hilda, a fisherman's daughter, and Philip Emerson, a noted physician, fall in love and marry, but the doctor soon becomes increasingly involved in his medical work, neglecting Hilda and their young son Philip, Jr. He then leaves her in the company of his friends, kind Peter and philandering Robert. When an epidemic of infantile paralysis breaks out, taking up even more of the doctor's time, his own son contracts the disease, and by all appearances dies from it. Heartbroken, Hilda collapses. However, the doctor discovers that the boy is in fact alive, although paralyzed. Believing that Hilda would be even more disturbed to know this, he hides the boy in his laboratory and works on trying to cure him, but cannot. Peter finally reunites Hilda with her son, and her presence and the miracle of motherly love succeed where science has failed: the boy is cured and walks toward his mother.
- The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
- Angela Deming visits her uncle in Hawaii where she meets Joseph Whitely, a misanthropic self-made millionaire, and Eliot Slade, scion of a wealthy family. Both men follow her home. She rejects William Hanley, her childhood sweetheart, and marries Whitely largely because of her father's bankruptcy. Hanley tells Whitely that Angela only married him for his money. Whitely and Angela quarrel, and she consults a divorce attorney. When Whitely goes to Angela's parents and learns they know nothing of the marriage, he believes Angela might really have loved him, so he sets out at breakneck speed in his car to find her. Angela has promised to marry Slade after her divorce, but fears for Whitely's safety. Angela and her friends assemble at Whitely's apartment and all denounce him. Angela forgives Whitely when he arrives, and they find happiness together.
- The first part shows us the happy home of a prosperous American broker, Julius P. Leclerc. His daughter, Suzanne, is possessed of rare beauty and charm, and it remains for a daring young French aviator to capture the heart of the charming young girl. It is a case of love at first sight when the two meet on the aviation field close to New York City. But Serge Renot, although a capable and daring flying-man, proves to be unsound in his ideas of business morality, and is not blessed with a goodly store of wealth by any means. This information is ferreted out by the powerful capitalist, William Runciman, who desires nothing so much as an alliance with the fair daughter of his friend Leclerc. Runciman and Leclerc visit Renot's club and discover the young man gambling heavily, and Leclerc is strengthened in his determination to put a stop to Renot's suit. But the broker has not seen the storm gathering around him; his speculations fail one after another. His Liberlan stock drops to zero, other stocks fall to vanishing point, and Leclerc wilts under the crushing blow. Seized with sudden heart failure the broker expires. Suzanne realizes that union with a penniless aviator is impossible in their present straitened circumstances, and that the only way that she and her mother can continue to live in comfort is for the daughter to make a rich alliance. So with sadly diminished income they resolve to spend one more season in Europe, and depart for the sunny lands of the Riviera. Serge Renot returns to his beloved Paris. At Cannes Suzanne is introduced to a French lieutenant named de Vergne, the eldest son of a wealthy countess, and the officer promptly falls head over heels in love with the beautiful American girl. Suzanne likes him sufficiently to promise to become his wife. But here upon the scene appears William Runciman, whose chief creed is that his money can procure anything he may want. Runciman invites Renot to Cannes and shows him Suzanne and de Vergne returning from a ride in the woods. Renot is furiously mad, and with jealous rage he challenges the army man to a duel, Next morning we see this duel take place, and de Vergne is badly wounded. Renot calls on the Leclercs, but Runciman has forestalled him. Suzanne tells the aviator that she can never forgive him, and that her former love has turned to hatred. She rushes to the house where Countess de Vergne and her son reside, only to learn that her fiancé and his mother have departed. A few days later Serge Renot writes a pathetic note to Suzanne appealing once more to her love, and stating that unless she will relent from her present attitude, he has resolved to commit suicide in a dramatic manner while in the air. At this proof of his devotion Suzanne does relent, and hurries off to the aviation ground to prevent Serge carrying out his intention. But she gets there too late; Renot has started. We see his aeroplane sailing through the cerulean blue of the southern skies like a swallow on the wing, when the explosion takes place, and the aviator falls to the ground, crushed to death beneath the wreck of his machine. A month elapses. Suzanne and her mother are back in the New York house, but it is a sad homecoming. The sheriffs have been busy and everything of value bears a justices' seal upon it. Poor distracted Suzanne knows not what to do. At one time she contemplates a speedy release from earthly troubles, but the thought of her helpless mother being left alone to battle with the world deters her. And then she makes the supreme sacrifice. William Runcimaq has told her that when all else fails, when her friends have all deserted her, when everything looks black, all she has to do is to send him the single word "'Come." The story closes with Suzanne addressing a note to the financier, couched in the following brief manner: "Come, Suzanne."
- A parody of the serial thrillers, in multiple episodes, that had become popular in France in recent years.
- A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse.
- 'Pojken' has been a student in Uppsala for many, many years. Many years ago he found a baby girl outside the fraternity house during a party. Pojken made sure that the girl could grow up in the countryside and has ever since sent money to the foster mother. Now the girl, Carolina, has moved back to Uppsala and is living with her real mother, who married nutty professor Hambreus. Carolina knows nothing about Pojken or the money he has sent, but now he has decided to reveal the truth to her.