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- A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
- The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
- For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
- A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
- Lithuania, first half of the 19th century. While hunting on the outskirts of the ancient castle of Count Mikhail Shemet, a bear attacks the Countess. She loses her mind, and her son Casimir, born to her, acquires a pathology.
- An innkeeper murders a wealthy guest to pay off his debt, but his conscience will not allow him to get away with the crime so easily.
- A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
- In the last days of ancient Babylon, a tomboyish mountain girl fights for her king when the city is attacked.
- Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
- Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
- Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a south sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by "Hurricane Martin" approaching, and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
- Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.
- A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman.
- The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear picture of what took place, Killany decides to have the crime re-enacted (with a substitute for the murdered man). The lights are turned out, and another man is murdered. This doesn't faze the Inspector one little bit, and he asks for a third re-enactment. The suspect list dwindles.
- Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
- Aspiring inventor Tom Powers gets a position as caretaker of the Clifford Rathburn estate and invites his impoverished friends to visit him while his employer is away. Rathburn has gone to Palm Beach to visit Cyrus Dodd, millionaire automobile manufacturer whose daughter, Patricia, Rathburn would like to marry. Disliking Rathburn, Patricia slips away to New York, becomes an elevator operator, and meets Powers. They marry and honeymoon at the Rathburn estate. Patricia takes an interest in Tom's invention and persuades her parents to visit them in hopes of securing financial backing for the invention, a new type of automobile paint. Tom's friends pretend to be his servants, making a big impression on the Dodds. Clifford Rathburn arrives home. The friends tie him up in an upstairs bathroom. Freeing himself, he breaks a pipe: water floods through the ceiling and into the dining room just as Dodd is signing a sizable check. The ceiling caves in; Clifford denounces the couple; Mrs. Dodd threatens to have the marriage annulled; but Cyrus Dodd, recognizing the importance of his son-in-law's invention, is happy with his daughter's choice and makes Powers a business partner.
- In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
- Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.) is a dress designer in love with shop-girl Hilda Jenson (Shirley Mason). But the problem is that prizefighter Spike Mullins (Johnny Walker) is also in love with Hilda. Jerry, undaunted by the obvious fact that , physically speaking, is no match for the bull-like Spike. Jerry Takes a few boxing lessons and, aided by Hilda, who deliberately overfeeds Spike before the big fight between the two rivals.
- A waiter in a cheap cabaret loves the premier dancer of the place, and when a noted theatrical producer visits the cabaret, the waiter by deft manipulation obtains his wallet. He dresses the young woman up and tries to put her on Broadway.
- Adele Dayton, a famous actress, visits her daughter, Mildred, whom she left with relatives as an infant. Her guardians, Mazie and John, permit the visit provided Adele conceals her relationship from Mildred. While Adele is there, she unintentionally attracts the admiration of Mildred's sweetheart, aspiring playwright David Starke, when she helps him sell one of his plays to a Broadway producer. David goes to New York city to open the play, neglecting Mildred. On opening night Mildred visits Adele and finds her in an embrace with David; she upbraids Adele for stealing David's affection from her and returns to her home in Massachusetts. Realizing she has hurt her own daughter, Adele sacrifices her love for David, snubbing him with a cold shoulder, he soon returns to Mildred and they marry.
- Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers: a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder, and a peddler. She is happy to prepare their meals and keeping the house while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. This happy home is broken up when Sally's wealthy aunt appears and takes her back to her luxurious penthouse to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
- Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), the worthless disinherited son of a wealthy man, John Clayton (Charles Hill Mailes), hires Hardain (Warner Oland), a phony spiritualist to arranger a fake seance in the hope that a fabricated message from his late mother will change his father's mind. Complications soon arise.
- A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino partner Peter Dane (Tom Moore) proves her innocence.
- A young girl, Peggy Warren (Dorothy Revier), raised in expensive boarding schools, discovers that her mother, respectable Katherine Warren (Ruth Stonehouse) also leads a second life as the notorious Texas Kate, Queen of the New York nightclubs. She leaves home ashamed of how her mother paid for her expensive schooling. A reconciliation re-unites mother and daughter after the mother saves her from a loveless marriage.
- A baby girl is left at the door of Brady, an Irish-policeman in New York City. He and his friends bid for her, and she is won by Uncle Ben Shapiro, a pawnbroker, who raises her to young womanhood, and is known as Sweet Rosie O'Grady. One day she goes to the rescue of Victor MacQuade, a young man from the high society set, who has been attacked by some east-side gang kids. The next day Victor, dressed as the family chauffeur, calls for her to go on on a ride. He goes home to change clothes while she peeks through the door at a charity costume-bazaar, and is swept inside by some late-arriving guests. She wins first prize for best costume, although she is dressed in the best she has. She flees angry and mortified. Since he has a larger house, she moves to Brady's home, one of her other foster-parents. Victor, who has fallen in love with Rosie, goes to Uncle Ben's shop and asks his permission to marry Rosie.
- Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
- Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
- Burton Meredith, A young, U.S. government chemist discovers a formula for a deadly gas. But Wo Fang, the evil leader of the Chinatown underground sets out to steal the secret, using very foul and foul means he knows. And Wu Fang knows them all.
- Stephen (Eugene O'Brien) loves Sally (Alberta Vaughn) and proposes to her. Sally, however, seems to prefer his brother Tom (Bert Woodruff), but after Stephen saves her securities in an office fire,she realizes it is Stephen she really loves.
- When his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, a wealthy minister in a mining town is snapped out of his attitude of "miner's safety" to save her.
- Doug Caswell falls for Irene Gordon. Irene happens to be the mistress of his wealthy father, John Caswell, and it's up to Doug's stepmother, Helen, to put things right.
- Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge, thereby greatly displeasing his mother, the emporium's owner, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, one of Mrs. Rutledge's friends, becomes interested in Ruth, forces his way into her apartment and attempts to make violent love to her. Jimmy walks in on their embrace, suspects the worst, and leaves Ruth. In the family way, Ruth finds refuge in a boarding-house, where she meets aspiring writer Al Bryant. Ruth tells Al her life story and he makes it into a best-selling novel and then into a play. Jimmy sees the play, comes to his senses, winning Ruth's forgiveness.
- During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
- In the Argentine, when Enid Garth's family discovers a valuable mine, Enid is kidnapped by Melmoth Craven, who whips her into insensibility to discover the mine's location. Years later, Enid has become the head of a great London banking house from which Craven borrows money to finance his campaign for a seat in Parliament. Enid revengefully calls back the loan without warning, and the desperate Craven kidnaps her daughter, Margaret. The girl is rescued by John Orme, and Enid sets a trap for Craven. The police arrest Craven, and Margaret and John are married.
- Two golf widows, Ethel Dixon (Kathleen Key) and Mary Ward (Sally Rand), decide to get even with their husbands, John Dixon (Will Stanton) and Ernest Ward (Vernon Dent), by going to the Tijuana horse-races with a wealthy broker, Billy Gladstone (John Patrick) and an insurance salesman Charles Bateman (Harrison Ford). Complications arise when Bateman's fiancee Alice Anderson (Vera Reynolds) shows up.
- To avoid being arrested for speeding,an unmarried couple, Eleanor Carter "Helene Chadwick" and BillTayor "Harry Myers", tell police officer "Hardboiled" Hogan "Pat Harmon", they are hurrying to see their "sick baby". Hogan tells them he is going to come to their apartment to see their sick baby. The couple hires an adult midget, Mr. Buppo "Midget Gustav" to impersonate the baby. They aren't aware that Mr. Buppo likes to smoke cigars. Complication arise.
- During the production of a motion picture, Neil Keenly, the film's star, is killed in an automobile accident. Harrison Halliday, the living image of the dead actor, takes his place, and the film is completed. The deception succeeds, and the public is kept in ignorance of Neil's demise. Harrison falls in love with Sheila Kane, the widow of the late actor, but their happiness is threatened when Cora Forman, a member of the film company at the time of Neil's death, blackmails Harrison. This threat is averted, however, and Harrison gracefully assumes another man's wife and fame.
- Ben Wilson, a simple country boy, tries to make a go of it in the big city. He manages with difficulty until chance offers up a job singing in a cafe. His rendition of the song 'Sweet Adeline' brings him great success, especially with a girl named Adeline.
- A woman raised in the strictest New England atmosphere marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is suddenly thrown into the romantic, colorful, and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires, how will she react to the charms of the sensuous, of the beautiful tropic nights, and the call of love?
- Margaret Blake, daughter of notorious gambler "Square Deal" Blake, has not told her sweetheart, Alan Howard, a son of wealth, about her father. College chum Jack Warren takes Alan to Blake's gambling house, and Alan misunderstands Margaret's affection for her dying father and breaks with her without giving her a chance to explain. Margaret inherits the gambling house. George Garnett, Blake's lawyer, who has become friendly with Alan's sister Alice, persuades Howard, Sr., to gamble his wealth ($250,000 in bonds) in a card game employing a supposedly stacked deck. He loses and dies of heart failure. Alan accuses Margaret of causing his father's death and refuses her offer to return the bonds. Alice does accept the bonds from her, but Garnett, who plans to flee to South America, has her sign them over to him. He attacks her, and Alice stabs him. Believing she has killed him, Alice flees. Margaret takes the blame, but the police arrest both. Garnett is exposed, and the film ends with Warren and Alice and Alan and Margaret about to celebrate a double wedding.
- Cliff Coleman (John Bowers), a business manager fires all the women on his staff believing them to be only interested on perfumes and hosiery. But he is outsmarted by his secretary, Ruth Barton (Jacqueline Logan), who tells a potential female buyer he discriminates against women.
- An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
- Mary Browning, the widow of the disinherited son of wealthy Cyrus Browning, is the mother of twin boys. Browning, who believes that he has only one grandchild, offers to adopt him and give him the best that money can buy. Mary sadly gives up Ralph, keeping Robert, the other son. Ralph grows up a wastrel, while Robert turns out to be a sterling young fellow, who finds work with his grandfather's railroad. The boys fall in love with the same girl, Laura Whitman; and Ralph, thinking to belittle Robert in her eyes, has him fired. Robert saves the mails from robbery and later saves his grandfather's private car from being wrecked. Cyrus Browning finally meets Mary, whom he has not seen for many years, and she introduces him to his second grandson. The old man realizes the faultiness of his attitude and promises to make amends for the hardships of Mary's life. Robert wins Laura, and Mary's gentle influence makes a man of Ralph.
- Jim Belmont, believing that his wife has committed adultery with Gordon Daniels, takes his small daughter, Cuddles, and heads for the Canadian wilderness. Daniels then pays Murdock to murder Jim; after Jim's death, Shep, Jim's faithful dog, assumes responsibility for the child, going to Poleon Dufresne, a trapper, for help. Poleon takes in the dog and the little girl and sends for Agnes Belmont, who quickly hurries to her child's side. Daniels follows Agnes (who, in fact, has been faithful to both the person and the memory of her husband) and attempts to kill her. Shep saves her life and drives Daniels off a cliff to his death. Agnes and Dufresne wed, providing a happy home for Shep and Cuddles.
- Bob and Jim start out at college as rivals, but soon become great friends. When Bob takes pretty Vivian Saunders to the prom, Jim is disappointed--he wanted to take her--but decides to make the best of it. However, when Bob becomes the school's football here, Jim's jealousy of his friend starts to really come out.
- Philip Durban, a wealthy iron manufacturer, marries Claire Bowdoin, the young daughter of a family of impoverished blue-bloods. Claire, who enters into matrimony only to provide for her mother's welfare, remains at first coldly indifferent to Philip, and he, in turn, remains aloof. Claire eventually comes to love Philip, but he fails to respond to any of her advances. She eventually goes abroad, where she encounters Prince Novakian, an Italian, who becomes infatuated with her. Philip learns of Novakian's amorous advances and goes to Italy, where he is challenged to a duel for taking a punch at the prince. Philip is wounded in the duel, and Novakian is slain. Under the stress and excitement of the moment, Claire casts aside her pose of indifference and rushes to her husband, tending his wounds and at long last convincing him of her love.