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- A stranger is tainted by the suspicion of illegitimacy because he insists on using only the name "Bill." The young man finds work at a logging camp and wins the respect of the other men, along with the esteem some of their ill-treated wives. Edith Barrett, the daughter of one of the camp owners, shows interest in Bill. However, jealous Clyde Van Allen, the son of the other camp owner, convinces Edith that Bill wronged a woman in the camp, and she becomes engaged to Clyde. Even after Bill rescues Edith from death in a snowstorm, she goes ahead with the marriage. Bateese, the camp cook, finally reveals that Bill is the son of his mother and the elder Van Allen, who kept the marriage a secret. Julie, a dance hall girl, shoots Clyde for breaking their engagement, then turns the gun herself, leaving Edith free to marry Bill.
- Theater director Hassenreuter has housed his stock of costumes in a place where all sorts of outcast live. Drug addicts, prostitutes, and criminals symbolizing dirt, poverty and decline of morals of society.
- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
- Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.
- Bruce Randall is injured after a fight with Mortimer, who has attempted to rob his home, and is reported dead by the police. They bury a man they believe to be Bruce, while Bruce wanders about, unable to recall his past. Two crook lawyers find him, hire him to impersonate Bruce so as to get some pearls in the Randall mansion, and Mrs. Randall believes he is really her husband. He regains his memory in time to defeat the crooks and save his wife's happiness.
- A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
- Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a drinker, a gambler, and pretty much worthless as a human being. For some reason, successful dancer Marilyn Merrill (Bow) sticks by him. In spite of this, he gambles with her boss, and when he loses, he writes bad checks. In order to avoid jail, Armstrong gets involved in diamond smuggling.
- A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
- Who is a thief - a street pickpocket, a social lion or a banker? The thief is the one who takes it small, the man with prospects is called a winner.
- While in Italy, the Duke of Chatsfield secretly marries a peasant girl, and they have a child, Francis. The boy's parents die after having separated, and he is reared in a monastery. When he is 20, Francis takes his final vows, while his uncle, a duke, learns that Francis is the true heir to the dukedom; a dispensation is granted by the Pope, and the boy assumes the title. In London, Mario, a penniless novice, masquerading as Baron Giordano, hopes to marry Monica, Francis' beautiful cousin; and to eliminate his rival he engages Dolores, his ex-mistress, to ensnare Francis. He succumbs to her wiles but on a visit to his relatives falls in love with Monica, and they become engaged; Monica, however, breaks off the betrothal after finding that Dolores loves him. Francis returns, embittered, to London and embarks on a series of flirtations; but learning of Monica's acceptance of Mario's offer, he returns to the monastery. Dolores tells Monica of the Baron's scheming, kills herself, and the lovers are reconciled.
- Paper rennet is a sort of apples a pregnant girl sells illegally to make her living in the city. There is a story of two people saving each to overcome all obstacles and there are another two people ending their story in a crime.
- Fanny is the new wife of stolid Henri Martel. Leaving on an important business trip, Henri foolishly leaves Fanny with the more worldly Blanche, who teaches the girl to drink, smoke and do the Charleston. The returning Martel, who hates Jazz and everything that goes with it, promptly divorces this new and improved Fanny, only to marry Blanche. But Henri and Fanny are reunited in order to avoid breaking the heart of the latter's visiting grandmother, discovering in the middle of the deception that they still love each other.
- A duke kidnaps the gypsy Montero's young bride, intending to exercise a nobleman's then-presumed right to make love to her. But she dies, and Montero vows revenge.
- Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former marriage, which was broken up by his wealthy wife's upper-class relatives. His son, now a young man unaware that Pierre is his father, is in danger of becoming the victim of blackmailer Mae Morin. Pierre sets out to save him from the notorious Mae.
- White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
- Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the Tiller¹s Follies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann Girls, and danseuse russe Lila Nikolska. But it's Josephine Baker, "the high priestess of primitivism" (J. Hoberman Village Voice), who triumphs in two show stopping numbers in which "her clownish backfield-in-motion Charleston shimmy is unlike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did."
- A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
- Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all the town's single frauleins and out destiny will reunite Anna and Ivan again.
- The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
- Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
- A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanoffs during the Russian Revolution.
- A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
- Williams is a bootlegger who takes in the down-and-out Nora. Nora eventually finds herself in the middle of a gang war between Williams and his chief rival, Tiger Louie.
- Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.
- Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
- Milada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.
- In Alsace just before the World War, beautiful, virtuous peasant Marie Ducrot, who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen--a lieutenant in the German Army--is seen visiting Karl in his quarters, and an angry mob of townspeople hurl stones and curses at her. Marie, mistakenly reported dead, becomes a novice in a religious order. War breaks out, and von Hagen is injured in fighting near Marie's convent; he is cared for by Marie and persuades her to return to Germany with him. Le Bête, a French Army sergeant of their acquaintance, helps them to reach the German lines and safety. Le Bête is killed by a sniper's bullet, and Marie and Karl prepare for a brighter future.
- About an unsuccessful revolt against a sadistic warden in a Siberian prison camp.
- A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
- Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
- Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
- Bill Hollister organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler joins the train when it leaves for Gold Hill, and takes command when Hollister is killed from ambush. Jacques Frazelle, formerly Hollister's second-in-command, schemes to get rid of The Rambler and win Sue Smith. He plots with Lynch to disrupt the train, but The Rambler beats him in a whip-fight...
- Inge gives up her singing career to marry Hubert, but 5 years later, her former costar and lover comes back to ruin her life.
- A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
- A complicated romance between an American sailor and a dancing girl from Marseilles.
- A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
- Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.