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- After her father is murdered, Louise Nolan goes to work as a masked dancer in a sporting café called "The Cat's Paw" in order to support her crippled brother. When a girl called The Mouse is hurt, Smiley Bill Curtain, the sugardaddy who killed Louisa's father, calls in Poole, a physician who has been treating Louisa's brother. Poole arouses Curtain's jealousy, and Curtain orders the doctor to be forcibly detained, simultaneously announcing his own marriage to an unwilling and surprised Louisa. In a fit of anger, The Mouse kills Curtain; Poole escapes and takes Louisa with him, obtaining her promise to become his wife.
- Terry O'Farrell pulls off several rescues in the course of the plot, whose locale is a steel mill, and Ann McGreagor uses her common sense to expose the villain's trickery and save the day for her sweetheart.
- A Kentucky colonel will lose the family homestead unless his prize racehorse, Racewild, wins the Kentucky Derby. A schemer who covets the homestead contrives to keep the horse out of the race, uncoupling the railroad car in which it is being shipped to Churchill Downs. The colonel's daughter and the jockey get the horse to the track, however, and the schemer drugs the jockey. The girl disguises herself in his colors and rides Race Wild to victory.
- Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hidden. One day her father manages to get ahold of the confession. Helen shows up at his apartment looking for it, which culminates in her and a young man she meets there being taken prisoner by a criminal gang.
- When a public building made with inferior concrete collapses, motorcycle policeman Spencer "Speed" Haynes is sworn to apprehend those responsible. Speed's girl friend, Dorothy Thompson, is unaware that her father James, who oversaw the construction, has been an unwitting accomplice in the scheme of gang leader Richard Webster. With the help of absent-minded newspaper reporter "Peek" Harvey, Speed exposes Webster as the man responsible and saves James Thompson from ruin.
- "Story is of a wealthy girl reforming the slums with speeches. The old man refuses to make the fire traps safe. A heroic fireman is thrown in, and there is a story of the old fireman, with the last three horses, dreaming of by-gone glory." ( Variety, 3 Aug 1927 ).
- Dick Manning, an assistant district attorney, who is on the track of a gang of murderers, is abducted while visiting his sweetheart, Helen Grant. Helen's police dog tracks down the abductors, and Helen goes to their den, passing herself off as Chicago Ann, a notorious female gangster who dresses in men's clothing. The leader of the gang is attracted to Helen, but his jealous sweetheart exposes her as a fraud. Helen is made prisoner, but she manages to escape with the help of a friendly gangster. Helen alerts the police, and the den is raided in time to save Dick's life.
- Young cub reporter Jimmy Blayne helps railroad president Barlow best Hawell, an unscrupulous competitor in the stock market, and falls in love with the Barlow's daughter, Sylvia.
- "Red" Dryden, son of a wealthy railroad magnate, who wishes to succeed independently, conceals his identity and takes a menial job on his father's line. He quickly proves himself to be extremely competent and arouses the enmity of a superintendent. The two men fight over a girl, and Red is transferred to a remote signal shack. The superintendent tampers with the warning signal at Red's shack, and the president's special thunders through, headed for a collision with another train. Red uses a radio device of his invention and alerts the engineer to the danger, preventing a disaster. Red's father learns of his son's heroism and appoints him to the presidency of the railroad.
- Helen Stover, the speed-loving daughter of an automobile manufacturer, decides to challenge rival manufacturer Stanley Merritt in a race. Although Mr. Stover is in deep financial trouble, he refuses to allow Helen to enter one of his new cars against Merritt. Determined to have her own way, Helen and mechanic Billy Brooks repair her old car so that Billy can drive in the race. When Merritt's men attack Billy and prevent him from driving, Helen takes his place and wins the race.
- There is the owner [Old Man Randolph] out to clean up on the big race, the difficulty in entering the horse, a riding jockey for a hero [Jackie] and a crook out to see that the old man's horse doesn't win. Added to this one there is the owner's crippled little daughter [Rose Randolph] whose operation depends upon the success of the race. Obstacles galore, suspense to the last minute and then the grand and glorious finish with hero dashing on to the track a second late, catching up with the riders, passing them and then on to a finish first.
- The city-bred daughter of a lumber magnate becomes engaged to the manager of one of her father's lumber camps, unaware that the manager has been stealing from her father's company. On a visit to the camp, the young woman becomes infatuated with the camp foreman and falls in love with him after he rescues her from a forest fire. Sometime after they are married, the foreman goes blind, the result of an encounter with a falling tree during the fire. Although he attempts to hide his blindness from his wife, she soon learns the truth. After giving birth to their baby, the young woman becomes bored and considers leaving the foreman for her former fiancé. Her husband uncovers the truth about the manager's theft and bests him in a fight atop a log jam. Finally, the foreman's sight is restored and he and his wife look to the future together.
- A young woman has many difficulties while trying to have a dam built on her property. Unknown to her and her father, a financier they know is secretly behind all of the problems she encounters.
- After his father is killed during a heroic rescue attempt, Danny Grogan, the son of a fireman on the Los Angeles fire department, joins the force in an attempt to follow in his father's footsteps. Fighting his first fire, Danny discovers that he is a coward and determines to overcome his fear of the flames. When Alice, the girl he loves, is trapped in a burning building, Danny finally becomes a man, rescuing her despite the dangers of heat and falling timber.