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- His son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
- A band of Prussian soldiers fighting Napoleon garrison themselves in a country windmill, the miller's daughter insists on staying with them.
- Actor Bela Lugosi discusses his career, his social life, and his feelings about his most famous role, Count Dracula.
- The pretty young wife of an English captain, in World War One, visits him in his billet in a little town in France, behind the front lines. She poses as the daughter of the French woman who owns the home where her husband has his meals along with his Colonel and a junior officer. The Colonel and the other officer both fall in love with the supposed French mademoiselle, and her husband has a hard time explaining things when he keeps getting caught kissing the landlady's "daughter."
- Dorothy West barges in on Walter Huston at his home, and against his wants, proceeds to conduct an interview with him about his private life, his career and his craft. The somewhat flippant answers he gives to her questions become a little more truthful as the interview progresses. But arguably the most interesting piece of information about Huston emerges after West has left, it associated indirectly with an earlier conversation he had with his agent on the telephone about not wanting to portray any more district attorneys.
- Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson set out an an expedition that takes them to Hawaii, the little explored South Pacific regions of the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Islands, Australia, then through the Suez Canal, down the Nile River to Tanganyika, a safari to the Belgian Congo--where they observe a large variety of wildlife and meet up with a tribe of pygmies--and finally wind up in Uganda.
- Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter( (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his accepted in Vienna.But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.
- A stoker, dissatisfied with his job, escapes from his ship to an island where he lives with a native girl. Eventually he is picked up by a passing steamer.
- The expedition sets forth to Magdalena Bay in Baja California to look for fighting fish. The crew consists of Chinese, Irish, Russian and Swedish men as well as a cameraman. Pelicans nest on a nearby island and there are flocks of birds everywhere. The crew's first catch is a couple of big bass. They encounter seals on shore and take two pups for pets, returning them later when they turn out to be too much trouble. The crew meets a fleet of tuna boats and is invited aboard. One boat will hold 140 tons of fish. Later they encounter a whaling fleet. When a whale is caught, it is stripped of its blubber, a procedure called flensing. The blubber comes off in one large strip called the blanket, which is cut into chunks to be boiled down for the oil. The rest of the carcass is then ground up for fertilizer. The crew stops at an island to obtain fresh water and they learn that a devil fish in the neighboring waters has scared away the natives' food fish. They decide to catch the devil fish with the aid of a native, Pancho, who sells sharks' fins for a living. First, however, the crew catches fish for the natives. Soon the water is filled with sharks, including a leopard shark and a hammerhead. The crew explores a sunken ship where moray eels are rumored to breed and finding no eels they catch several sting rays instead. Finding themselves in the midst of a school of porpoises, they remember the sailors' belief that to kill them is bad luck, and continue without harming the animals. Finally, the crew encounters the devil fish, a large manta ray. After eleven hours of struggle, they land the fish, which at 4,200 pounds and 17 feet across is so large that it takes nine hours to tow it 18 miles. One of the largest mantas on record, a small boy can stand in its open mouth.
- Captain Jack Robertson, his dog Skooter, and several others travel by steamship to Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory via the Inside Passage and Prince William Sound. A smaller boat takes them past Harvard Glacier, Chugash Range, and the Great Divide. Continuing by canoe, raft, and dogsled, the group heads northward past Mt. McKinley. The spring thaw permits a 1,200-mile trip on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers to the Bering Sea, visiting Eskimos along the way. The next destination is the Alaska Peninsula, with its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, followed by a last stop on the Kenai Peninsula before the coming of winter and the return home.
- Dorothy West, an interviewer for the New York-based filmed interview series "Intimate Interviews" calls up rising screen star James Cagney and asks for an interview. He agrees and she comes to his house. Cagney and West sit down while she asks him questions about his early life and his career.
- The Cameron-Cadle Kalahari Expedition sets out to explore South Africa and British Bechuanaland Protectorate (now modern-day Botswana). They film the native peoples and natural environments they encounter.
- Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses.