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- In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- Kuno Falkenberg, a handsome young naval lieutenant, is in love with his cousin Elly, who also happens to be the daughter of the colonel. Elly has met a swarthy and wealthy maharajah, who proposes marriage to her in a rowboat. She eagerly accepts. When Kuno finds the empty rowboat, he assumes that Elly has drowned - little suspecting that she has eloped to the Orient, or wherever wealthy maharajahs live.
- A Mormon missionary seduces and kidnaps an attractive young woman, forcing her to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.
- Nina turns in a wanted criminal, Carl Weldon, to get the reward and save her ailing mother, who sadly expires before Nina has time to return.
- Policeman Thor Brekanæs is found murdered near his farm and the hunt for the killer is on.
- On either side of a central partition, two life histories are given. One is toasted by his friends as he enters manhood and finishes the night in a state of intoxication. The other spends this solemn evening in his career with his mother, reading Holy Writ. So through life the contrast continues; one man rapidly sinks from bad to worse, the other rises steadily. The first, on leaving prison, where he has been placed for his share in a drunken brawl, has to appeal to the second, as an old school friend, for assistance. Met soon after by his old companions, the ex-prisoner has a drinking bout, and ends in delirium tremens. Fighting with a policeman he is arrested and transported, and in a highly effective concluding scene, we are shown "the ocean between two human lives."
- The Tivoli Youth Guard plays two marches in a scene design that represent Copenhagen. The music is Riberhus march by J.F. Frölichs and Palle march by Herman D. Koppel.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- An adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, one of four Dickens features made at Nordisk in Copenhagen between 1921 and 1924.
- Dr. Russell, a specialist on diseases of the brain, is traveling with his young wife and stays for a few days at a fashionable hotel where the guests are given to merriment. There the wife meets one Marius, a polished man of the world, who is immediately smitten with the charms of the wife. She is not averse to a flirtation and at a ball they meet in a clandestine manner and Marius wins the woman. Dr. Russell is summoned home, but his wife finds an opportunity to communicate with Marius and invites him to call on her in a secret manner. Dr. Russell returns to his home, which is a private sanitarium for the treatment of the insane. His wife has arranged with Marius to effect an entrance into the home by waving a lamp as a signal that the coast is clear. Marius arrives during the absence of the physician, sees the prearranged signal and enters the house, which is in darkness. He is groping about trying to find the woman when the husband unexpectedly returns home with a madman. Fearful of being discovered, Marius seeks concealment in a cell, which is numbered 13. The wife is unaware of his presence in the house. Dr. Russell and his assistants place the lunatic in the same cell. Marius tries to make his escape, but finds the door locked. The insane man is awakened and he grapples with the intruder and a fierce fight ensues, in which Marius is borne to the floor and throttled. The noise of the struggle reaches Dr. Russell's ears and he goes, with a helper, and rescues Marius. The latter has been made insane from fright and he partially recognizes the wife and hands her the letter she has written him. The physician obtains the letter and learns of the infidelity of his wife.
- Opening in the lodgings of the Lieut. Buonaparte, then an impecunious young officer, the subject soon introduces us to Madame Sans Gene, Who brings Napoleon his washing and submits to a kiss. Later, in the laundry itself, her rescue of Count Neupport, whom she assists in a wounded state to her own bedroom, is shown. The girl's lover, Sergeant Le Fevre, forces an entrance, but lets the prisoner go to shield his sweetheart. These scenes all contain much effective acting, as does a later one in which the sergeant is instrumental in saving Napoleon's life. The latter has taken the place of a sentry who has fallen asleep at his post and resting on the latter's ride is waiting for him to wake, when a number of Royalist soldiers attack him. Le Fevre, on his rounds, comes to the rescue and secures a pardon for the sentry and promotion for himself. Le Fevre's rise is rapid. Made a field-marshal, he, after the battle of Danzig, is made a duke for his gallantry in saving the colors. At this stage we are given another glimpse of the heroine, who follows her husband's fortunes in the camp. This period introduces some good scenes of camp life, the council of officers, etc. Back at Paris, we find Napoleon in his private cabinet, unaware of an intrigue in progress in which the Empress is concerned, having for its object the escape of Count Neupport, who is entrusted with a letter to the Emperor of Austria. The Count, however, is discovered in the Court disguised, by Napoleon, and captured and condemned to death. Meanwhile, the Duchess of Danzig has visited Napoleon and laughingly shown him the unpaid laundry bill, and the Little Corporal has shown that he is not insensible to her charms. The Duke and Duchess hear of the capture of the Count and bring about his escape, the nobleman being conveyed through the lines in a military cloak and hat. Then they repair together to Napoleon and confess what they have done, to be magnanimously forgiven by the Emperor, after a natural outburst of anger, when he remembers that he owes his life to the man.
- A lawyer blackmails a society lady about her past. Will the Joker come to her rescue?
- Early romantic and mildly erotic comedy by Danish star director Erik Balling who earned his first Bodil awards from this 1953 movie. It's all about an anonymous little gray book originating from sexually advanced Paris. The book doesn't look like much, but shouldn't be judged by its cover. Wherever this book goes, something will happen. And for sure, this book goes around.
- A man who is used to depending on his mother to solve his financial debts becomes involved with the daughter of a lender.
- The ballet pupil Camilla Favier tells the author Jean Mayol that she had learned all lines of the main character in his new play. When the stage manager announces that the leading lady is sick, Jean suggests that Camilla could replace her this evening. Camilla makes a huge success, and she and Jean fall in love. Jean introduces her to his friend, the painter Paul Rich, who wants to make a painting of her. While she is in his atelier, Jean gets a love letter from Yvette Simon, the wife of a rich rentier, asking for a rendezvous in the wood. In Jean's empty apartment Camilla finds the letter and is devastated. In revenge she reveals the secret love story for Mr. Simon and his guests at a big party. Later she finds a new love message from Yvette Simon. She brings it to Mr. Simon, who gets furious, grabs a pistol and goes to Jean's apartment. Camilla repents and rushes away to warn Jean and Yvette. To deceive her husband Yvette dresses herself in Camilla's clothes, but he recognizes her nonetheless and kills her. Camilla is shocked and brought to a hospital by Paul, who takes care of her afterwards. When Jean turns up and approaches her, she rejects him and stays with Paul.
- A wealthy young man, Edgar, sees a shop-girl, Ellen, and is immediately attracted to her. He buys her flowers. They meet next Sunday and, presumably, often thereafter. Three months later Ellen is pregnant. The couple decide to marry, and Edgar tells his mother. His father convinces him not to marry.
- Sherlock Holmes is in make-up a lifelike presentment of Conan Doyle's famous character. A Count, who feels that his end is near, makes a will in favor of his wife, and it is deposited in a safe. The noted criminal, "Dr." Morse, is masquerading as the Count's medical attendant, and determines to get possession of the will. He therefore takes a wax impression of the keyhole of the safe, sending the skeleton key to a woman accomplice who is nursing the Count. When the Count's death occurs, the nurse quickly secures the will and hands it to "Dr." Morse when he arrives in response to an urgent message. The loss of the will is soon discovered, and Sherlock Holmes is consulted. He observes an emissary of "Dr." Morse's outside his chambers, so gets a friend to go out dressed as himself (Holmes), thus throwing the watcher off the scent. The Countess meanwhile drives away in her carriage; she is pursued in a motor car by Morse and his confederates, captured after a valiant defense by her coachman, and taken to a lonely cottage. Here she is bound and placed in charge of a horrible little hunchback, whom Morse tells to kill her on the stroke of midnight unless other instructions are received. Then Morse goes to Sherlock Holmes' chambers, and makes a forcible entry. Holmes is there and holds him up. Morse laughs, and says if he is not back at the cottage in half an hour, the Countess will be killed. So Holmes lets him go, and accompanies him. A trap to kill him fails, and the Countess is saved from death. Morse escapes by throwing pepper in two police constables' eyes, but is captured eventually, through going out of bravado to Holmes' rooms.
- The Countess X. receives during a party a young man, who brings her a message from a friend, whom she believed to be in exile, asking her to come and see him the same evening in order to arrange with him how they can revenge themselves on their mutual enemy, the prince. The conversations is heard by a young diplomat, Baron Lerche, who has been concealed behind a curtain. He hurries away from the company and soon after returns in a different dress. He watches the countess, follows her in the night to a remote house, makes his way in, and overhears a plan to kill the prince. Soon after the prince gives a masked ball. The Countess, in Spanish costume, and the baron, in red domino, are among the guests. As the countess sees that the red domino keeps watching her, she boldly addresses him, takes his arm and leads him towards a group of guests, who are her friends and accomplices. There she writes, with the hands at her back, on her ball-card: "Get the red domino out of the way." The card is at once picked up, read and understood, and the next moment a lady takes, with irresistible amiability, the baron's arm and leads him to a remote smoking room. The baron is very much afraid to leave the dangerous countess out of sight, and is about to leave the room again, but two masked gentlemen throw him to the ground, gag and tie him and leave him alone. The baron, however, does not want to give up the exciting play. Straining every nerve, he succeeds in rolling himself on to a cigar-lighter, by aid of which be destroys his bonds. When he is free, he jumps out of the window and down in the garden summons two policemen, whom he had told to keep near the place, and then be goes back to the ballroom. In the meantime, the countess succeeds in getting the prince away from the party. He is very much captivated with her, and takes her to a cabinet, where he can speak to her alone. They get a bottle of champagne, and now the prince cannot keep back his feelings any longer, but falls down on his knees, declaring to her his love. The countess watches the opportunity; she smiles encouragingly, puts her left arm around his neck, and with the right hand she throws a poisonous powder in his glass. But at this very moment her arm is seized by the baron, who comes out from behind the curtain. The countess jumps to her feet, but when she sees that everything is out she falls back in a swoon. In a few words the baron explains what has happened. He calls the servants, who carry the countess out, and then he enters the ballroom again. With revolver in hand he makes the guests take off their masks, and now he points out the conspirators one by one. The policemen take them away, and the guests gather round the prince and baron with eager questions, but the prince answers smilingly: "My dear guests, don't let this little incident disturb our pleasure; it was only an attempt on my life."
- Three troublemakers, one clumsy maid and the strictest madam in town - everything is as usual at the "Peace and Quiet" boarding house. That is, until the madam of the house grows tired of the maid and authorizes her three boarders to find her a replacement while she's visiting a friend. After a wild night out, the three gentlemen return with three cute girl under their arms. When madam returns home earlier than expected, all three troublemakers come up with the same brilliant cock-and-bull story - that their girl is the new maid.
- A monk who cherishes a secret passion for a young lady, sees her receive an admirer in secret, and tells her father. The father declares that he will place the girl in a convent. This is just what the crafty priest wants, and he soon has everything in readiness to carry out the parent's wishes. The next time the lover calls upon the lady he is surprised and captured by a band of armed men, who take him to a dungeon. Before the day arrives on which she is to take the veil, the girl finds a means of conveying to her lover a file and a note telling him of her impending fate. He manages to get away, but powerless to take effective action unaided, the young man appeals to a powerful prince, who listens kindly to his story, and promises assistance. On the night before her admission to the convent, the wicked priest visits the girl. The girl, for lack of any other weapon, attacks her persecutor with a crucifix. He calls in the prioress and accuses the girl of blasphemy. A hasty trial is given her, and she is condemned to be buried alive in the vaults of the convent. The dreadful sentence is being carried out and the last stones are being placed in position when the prince arrives at the head of a band of men. The girl is saved and falls into the arms of her lover, and the wretched monk is hurried away to punishment.
- Young Elly lives in the fishing town of Whitley as the foster daughter of the greedy merchant Brown. When Brown suddenly raises gasoline prices, the local fishermen revolt. The events escalate to a huge gasoline fire, Brown's death and poor Elly's capture by pirates. Fortunately, John Elton heroically extinguishes the fire and, just in the nick of time, saves Elly, whom he has long admired. Will Elly and John finally find a peaceful life together after everything they've both been through?
- Raffles is serving his time. He manages to send a word to his friends and they help him to escape. Once free, Raffles' first thought is to revenge himself on Sherlock Holmes, and for this he enlists the services of a pretty but depraved girl, to decoy the great detective to an old house, where he is met by Raffles under the disguise of an old woman. Sherlock Holmes, taken by surprise, is thrown through a masked opening in the wall, into an old sewer. When Raffles and his associates discover that Sherlock Holmes has been rescued, they plan a second attempt on his life. Raffles takes lodgings opposite the detective's home and watches for a good chance to fire his gun at Sherlock Holmes. Young Billy, the alert office boy, discovers the strange new tenant and notifies his master. Sherlock Holmes, guessing the intentions of the criminal, pulls down the window blinds and arranges a dummy at the window. At a given moment, Billy pulls up the blinds and Raffles, who had been watching for a good opportunity, takes up his gun and shoots. He hits the dummy, but great is his surprise when leaving the window, to find himself face to face with Sherlock Holmes in flesh. As Raffles turns to run away, he is caught by two officers.
- A young couple appears to be perfectly happy and in love, but one day the woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She seeks out his mistress, and the two women agree to resolve their conflict in a duel.
- Prince Walter, whilst out hunting with his adjutant, the Duke of Wolmer, becomes separated from the rest of the field, and the pair encounter Agnes, a prepossessing country maiden who resides with her grandmother, and of her inquire their whereabouts. The adjutant, who is an ardent amateur photographer, observes that the prince is struck by the girl's beauty and secures a snapshot of her. It is a case of love at first sight with the Prince and his fair charmer, and the latter, refusing to be momentarily recompensed for the services she has rendered to His Royal Highness, allows him to present her with a ring. In return, he takes a lock of her hair. The pair part, but the gay cavalier has become a lovesick swain. His thoughts are ever of Agnes, and a game of chess with the adjutant proves tedious. Showing the lock of hair to the adjutant, the latter understands what is troubling his royal master, and consoles him somewhat by presenting him with a present of the snapshot he secured of the girl. To further the plans of the lovers, the adjutant secures a tenancy of the house adjoining that of Agnes, and the love-making proceeds apace. Soon we see the happy pair in fond embrace and the compact is sealed with a kiss. But the prince's august parent has other plans for his son's matrimonial prospects. For political reasons, it is necessary that he shall be betrothed to the Princess of Illyria, and at a council meeting the engagement is decided upon. Prince Walter, whilst enjoying a tete-a-tete with Agnes, is apprised by the adjutant of what has occurred, a copy of a newspaper containing the official announcement being handed to him. In a rage he tramples the paper under foot and goes off with his informer. Agnes chances to discover the journal, and reads the news which for her is fraught with such importance. The prince decides to return home, and writes a letter acquainting Agnes with the fact that circumstances over which he has had no control forces him to break his engagement with her. Arrived at the royal palace, the prince bows to the will of his father and the council. Both His Royal Highness and Agnes are, however, disconsolate. The former has no thoughts except for her to whom his heart is given, whilst the latter declines to be tempted even with the daintiest luxuries. She sends back the emblem of her troth, and the prince writes a letter imploring her to see him once more and let him spend a last happy hour in her company. The adjutant, seeing how matters are, takes affairs into his own hands, and visiting Agnes, prevails upon her to gratify the prince's desire, conveying her to the palace in his own motor car. A touching scene between the lovers in the royal garden ensues, and before parting the prince gives Agnes a white rose as the emblem of his undying love for her. Tender farewells are said, and Agnes returns to her humble abode. Life's dream for her is o'er, but the prince, bowing to destiny, returns to the palace and is wedded to the lady of his father's choice, bestowing upon her his name, but not his love, for that is the sole property of the girl of humble mien, and the picture closes with the newly wedded pair bowing their acknowledgments upon the balcony to the assembled populace below, who little realize that he who will someday rule over them has sacrificed his happiness in the fulfillment of his duty to his king and country.
- Dr. Hatton and Dr. Felix, two young physicians, are working to produce a serum for the cure of cancer. Dr. Felix secretly envies Dr. Hatton's personality and social conquests, while the latter is jealous of the other's more advanced work. Hatton conceives a plan to divert his colleague's mind from his work by getting him interested in society and a charming orphan, Margaret. Lieutenant Vincent, Margaret's brother and guardian, is soon transferred to another city and Margaret is left alone with an old aunt. Dr. Hatton maneuvers so that Felix spends most of his time with Margaret, while he diligently applies himself to his work. Marguerite's infatuation for Felix results disastrously, and Dudley, Lieutenant's friend, goes to inform him of the improper relations between his sister and the physician. Vincent obtains leave of absence and sets out to defend his sister's honor. Meanwhile Margaret has written Felix about her condition, to which he replies with a check. This she indignantly returns to him. Upon his return Lieutenant Vincent challenges Dr. Felix to a duel, in which the former is fatally wounded. Felix is sent to prison for six months, and the night of his release Dr. Hatton, as Mephistopheles, takes him to a mask ball. In the midst of revelry Dr. Felix thinks how cruelly he has treated Margaret, and he goes to the hospital in search of her, where he learns that she and her child both have died. Overwhelmed by sorrow he returns to his rooms, where he reads of Dr. Hatton's discovery of the cancer cure. Too late he realizes that Dr. Hatton's duplicity has ruined his career. As life no longer appeals to him he takes poison and his dying eyes behold a vision of Mephistopheles with the face of Dr. Hatton, and seems to hear his mocking words: "I have superseded you. Your folly achieved my triumph."
- The beautiful Corsican girl, Marietta, has two ardent admirers, Carlo and Enrico, and it is quite difficult for her to decide which one to accept. She keeps both at a distance. The uncertainty is exciting the two fellows to such a pitch that their friendship gradually diminishes and one day Marietta surprises them as they are about to fight with knives as weapons. She is frightened, but her clever and convincing words induce the fellows to agree to an arrangement which she proposes for settling the matter. High up on one of the rocks where no man's foot has ever rested, an eagle has built a nest. Marietta decides that she will be the wife of the one who first brings her an egg from the nest. Carlo and Enrico are ready to start for the task and Marietta watches them swim through the breakers. Carlo, who is the better climber, arrives at the nest first and takes the egg out of it, but on coming back he forgets all precaution in his hurry, and with one false step misses his hold and falls over the steep rocks to the bottom where Enrico, who is left behind, is on his way. The latter takes the egg out of the dead man's hand and swims back for his reward. The wedding takes place and everybody is happy excepting Enrico, who cannot forget Carlo's tragic death. When the young couple are left together Enrico feels a little easier, but just as he is embracing his young wife the image of Carlo rises between them. Mad with fright and horror, Enrico rushes out of the house down to the sea, and the wife and the mother go to look for him, but they only find his body at the bottom of the rocks.
- In a mansion full of secret rooms and passageways, people are dying shortly after seeing the ghost of a woman in gray, as an old legend dictates. Called in to solve the mystery, Sherlock Holmes has doubts about the supernatural aspect of the crimes and focuses on a more earthly culprit.
- The professor is quietly reading his morning paper when he feels annoyed by boys playing in the same park. He scolds them and they plan a revenge. One og them sticks a sign on his back saying "painted". As he goes on his way he meets several people who finds him embarrassing. He notices the sign, gets rids of it, but is now follow by a gang of all the people he has encountered during the day. The police is about to grab him when he manages to jump on a passing carriage.
- In the hope of becoming rich and famous, Walter Fabre, a medical student, devotes all his time to study and refuses the invitation of his fellow-students to join them in merry-making. Walter falls asleep and dreams that Mephistopheles appears and tells him that he can make his fame and fortune by giving him the power to foretell the death or recovery of a patient; in the event of death Mephisto will appear at the head, and in case of recovery he will appear at the feet of the patient. To prove his superhuman power he tells Walter that he will save the life of the King, who has been given up by all authorities. Walter gains admission to the King's bedside and while diagnosing the case. Mephistopheles appears at the foot. The King recovers and Walter becomes famous. Sometime later a beautiful young Baroness and her mother are out driving and the latter is fatally injured in an accident. The young Baroness, Ida Shinting, summons Walter and when he arrives at the bedside he sees Mephisto at the head, and knows the meaning thereof. He is so charmed with Ida's beauty that he beseeches his master to spare the Baroness's life. Mephisto agrees, but warns Walter that in return he will someday take from him his dearest. Ida and Walter are married; five years later their little daughter is taken seriously ill. Finding Mephisto at her head Walter tries to thwart him by turning the child around. Again Mephisto takes his place at the head. Then the father, trying to cheat him again, places his daughter in a chair. She dies, however, and shortly after the funeral Walter himself becomes sick; he discovers by his head Mephisto, who says that he has come to exact punishment for the attempts Walter made to deceive him. Walter awakes with a start, and realizing that fame and wealth are not the only things in life, merrily joins his colleagues.
- While holidaying, the beautiful heiress Grace meets the love of her life. Percy Fancourt is a cowboy and hardly a suitable match for a millionaire's daughter - at least not if you ask her father. Reluctantly, she returns home.
- The peace of the anarchist and his wife's house is disturbed by the mother-in-law. He sees no other advice than to blow her up.
- Beck and Lind are two young tourists who happen to be near the country place of Mr. Brenta, when Black Bill and his pal escape from a prison some little distance away. As the tourists are sauntering along the road, Brenta and his daughters, Emma and Mabel pass them in their carriage. It appeared like a double case of love at first sight. In the meantime, Black Bill and his pal have changed their prison garb in the house of a friend and sally forth. They encounter the young tourists and then notify the magistrate through a note that the convicts who escaped are disguised as tourists. Beck and Lind present themselves at the Brenta home, and on account of their gentlemanly demeanor, are permitted to be guests overnight. After the family and guests have retired Black Bill pays a midnight visit to the house and enters the room occupied by the tourists. He steals Lind's note book and his money when he is discovered in the act of escaping. Lind grabs him, but in a spirit of charity and forgiveness, decides not to turn him over to the police. Instead, he allows him to keep the money and pocketbook and advises him to mend his ways. On the following morning Judge Smith arrives at the Brenta home and informs the family that two convicts have been harbored overnight. There is suppressed excitement while the police are being summoned, and when Beck and Lind appear they are openly accused. Just as they are about to be arrested, Black Bill enters and returns the money and pocketbook to Lind. Then all is made clear and Black Bill makes a clean breast of his escape and the deception he had practiced. Before the close of the story it is apparent that Lind and Emma love each other and the same sentiment is manifest between Beck and Mabel.
- Mikael is a young medical student who works as a pianist at the nightclub "Sexkanten". He has no problem to bed women but looks for the special one.
- Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is in a relationship with a married woman when he meets Christine and both fall in love.
- After losing his parents, who died from grief over their son's unjust sentence to jail, John Redmond obtains his release and devotes his life to the uplift and betterment of mankind. After preaching to a crowd one day he is accused of having served a term in jail himself. The leader of a gang and his followers are planning an act of burglary in a saloon. John Redmond happens into the same place, but he is mocked and leaves. One of the gangsters decides to lead an honest life and appeals to John for moral aid. The lay-preacher tells him his story: How in a quarrel one evening his sweetheart was killed by the bullet of a rival suitor, which was meant for him, and for which he was sentenced to jail. Through the intervention of this prison chaplain, however, the case was retried, his innocence was proven and he was set free. His first way was to his ill mother who, shortly after his return, died in his arms. Nellie, the reformed gangster's sweetheart, rejoices over his reformation, and the lay-preacher continues his life's vocation.
- A young girl reads an ad in the newspaper and enthusiastically shows it to a young man, who cares for her. She leaves on the train; the young man gives her a carrier pigeon. At the end of the journey, she meets with a lady, who takes her to her house. The girl is given an evening dress and taken to a salon filled with revelers. She fights off their advances and is locked in her room. Realizing that she has ended up in a brothel, she sends off the pigeon with a message. The young man gets the message and arrives at the brothel with the police. He takes the girl away with him, but after the police have left, the remaining revelers cheerfully continue their debaucheries.
- Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.