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- When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
- A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
- Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
- In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
- Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
- A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
- Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
- A phantom appears in the Louvre museum in the middle of the night in search of something in the dark corridors.
- Detective Charlie Chan investigates a pearl necklace, which has caused misery for all of its owners.
- In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a murderous rake of the San Francisco underworld.
- A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
- Jean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.
- A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
- A nobleman posing as a necktie salesman falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer although he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
- A series of six two-reel episodes, each individually titled: #1: Let's Go (1922); #2: Round Two (1922); #3: Payment Through the Nose (1922); #4: A Fool and His Honey (1922); #5: The Taming of the Shrewd (1922); #6: Whipsawed.
- Sam and Molly Thornhill, a married couple very much in love, are nevertheless continually quarreling. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, Sam fails to notice a pair of silk stockings slipped into his pocket by a lady.
- Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace, saves Belden's life in San Francisco. When they all reach the border, Brace tries again.
- Mary and Bobby Trevor are castaways befriended by Tarzan. When Lord arrives, looking for the family heir, Black John tries to fill that role and marry Mary in England. Tarzan shows up and marries her instead.
- A young Jewish woman is forced to either give herself to a Russian officer or watch her village burn.
- An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
- A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
- A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
- Champion Roman racer Dan Malloy falls in love with French Canadian Marie LeFarge, but is accused of killing her father. He evades the law until he wins the Calgary Stampede. He is freed when the real killer is identified.
- A leader of New York society leaves her ship bound for Europe ,in disguise as a maid, to prevent her son's marrying into a lower class. Also converging on her home are a crook also disguised (as a deacon) several reporters and the police.
- Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp, filled with brawny he-men who spend their time drinking, gambling and brawling when not cutting timber. Once there, Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against "Dum-Dum" Pete, the toughest man in those parts. Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camp's mascot, a crippled young boy, and saves his sweetheart, Marie O'Nei, that daughter of a rival lumber company, from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an ice-break flood.
- A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
- On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
- In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
- Lord Harrowby, an English nobleman about to marry American heiress Cynthia Meyrick, takes out a $100,000 insurance policy against the loss of his wealthy bride. Sent to usher at the proceedings, the company's confidential agent, Dick Minot, falls for Cynthia, and through a series of comic situations he wins her and fulfills his obligation.
- Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.
- A soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.
- A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
- Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's asking for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts planning how to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.
- Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
- The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
- Scout, a cowboy's beautiful white horse, flees the ranch after being abused by a sadistic ranch hand. He becomes an outlaw stallion, and it's not long before he manages to attract a considerable herd of followers. However, when local ranchers suspect Scout of "rustling" some of their horses to join his herd, they decide to track him down and put him to death. Scout's owner reluctantly agrees, but has his own plan in mind.
- A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
- The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect.
- Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller. After he graduates from college, Gordon marries Virginia and has a son with her. Four years later, Virginia is so eager to return to work that accepts her mother-in-law's offer to live with them and care for Sonny. However, Virginia soon becomes jealous of Mrs. Graham for stealing her child's affections, and gives her husband an ultimatum that either she or his mother must go. In the end, Virginia leaves with Sonny and then marries Stoneman, her employer, but when he is imprisoned on embezzlement charges, she is left destitute. Years later, Sonny and his wife Marjorie take Virginia into their home, but in a repeat of family history, Marjorie soon becomes jealous of Virginia. When the couple move to Paris, Virginia decides to pass out of their lives. While attending an architectural convention in Paris, Gordon and Marjorie (now his wife) are recognized by the haggard woman, but she dies in the street before she can reach them.
- A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.
- The Collegians was a four year series of 46 two-reel films, in which the same players played the same roles through four years of college life, as envisioned by Hollywood's screenwriters of the mid-1920's.
- In 1860s Russia, a young officer is sent on a mission to save his country from invaders.
- Joyce Brandon is in love with Jack Sturdevant, but he doesn't even know she's alive.
- Marian Nixon plays the title character, a gorgeous bareback rider with a travelling circus. Spangles falls in love with Dick (Pat O'Malley), a young fugitive from justice who uses the Big Top for a hideout.
- A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
- Rance Lighton, a lazy wanderer, is arrested for vagrancy and taken to the Rogers Ranch, where Dickie Rogers, an invalid child who is confined to a wheelchair, takes a liking to the stranger.