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- Celebrating the videos, people, music and memes that made 2017.
- In her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song.
- An eccentric doctor captures two burglars who enter his house. He promises them freedom and a reward of $1,000 if they will go to the cemetery and obtain for him the body of a man whom the doctor contends died of water on the brain. They agree. A suitor for the hand of the doctor's daughter, who has been forbidden to enter the house, passes himself off as a corpse and is carried to the doctor. The suitor escapes and, in order to obtain the reward, Cook is forced to act as the "body." An attempt to carve him up leads to the greatest activity on the part of the "body" to escape the knives and saws of the doctor.
- The daughter of a restaurant keeper is wooed by a city guy. The lifting of the mortgage and the introduction of a cabaret places the restaurant on a paying basis. Not satisfied with what he has got, the old man gets up a scheme to sell some land on the strength of an oil deposit and proceeds to pour kerosene into a pool. The trick is later turned on himself when the city guy fakes a gusher, and the old man buys back at a price that ruins him.
- A crusade against women wearing clothes which are more abbreviated than the law allows results in policemen and jurists being captivated by their captives.
- Hedda Holiday is sent to prison by mistake for seven years instead of seven days. When she is finally freed she wants to reform. She meets a male crook who refuses to permit her to travel the straight and narrow path.
- The milk-fed vamp is the daughter of a farmer. She is stuck on her abilities as a charmer of the opposite sex, and elopes with Cobble Stonio, a city youth, who has a wife or two already. She is as good as he at the game of looking out for herself. In the city they come in contact with wife number two, mother of three children. She has an organ and monkey, and this monkey is one of the most amusing things in the picture. It's antics and the things the director has thought up for it to do are both fresh and compellingly laughable.
- The adventures of a wife with a husband who is inclined to "step" a little too often.
- In the process of investigating a virus in the Pokémon Transport system, Ash and company become unwitting beta testers for a Human Transport System.
- A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
- The Duke of Sairmuse weds Blanche Courtleigh. Shortly alter she is blackmailed for money by a band of ruffians, who threaten to inform the Duke that her brother is a hardened convict. Wild with anxiety she decides to meet the blackmailers and strive to effect a compromise. Her husband, suspicious of her actions, follows her and has one of the gang try to steal her earrings. He breaks in and in a struggle kills them. He is disguised in old clothes to save his wife's honor and holds off the police until she escapes. Monsieur Lecoq, the famous detective, captures the Duke, but to protect his wife he keeps silent. The famous detective tries various devices to entrap the nobleman and learn his real identity, but it is useless. At last they permit him to escape and follow him to his home. While the Duke's faithful servant, Ott, is parleying with the sleuth, the Duke changes his clothes and confronts him in his natural guise. Baffled, the hound of the law departs. The Duke discharges Otto, giving him a large sum of money to avert suspicion. Meanwhile, husband and wife have reached an understanding and forgetting the past endeavor to regain their former happiness. A short time later the Duke receives a letter purporting to come from his servant and requesting a further loan. It is presented by a ragged individual, and while the nobleman is making out a check the bearer strips off his disguise and stands revealed as Lecoq. He explains, it has been absolutely necessary for him to clear up the mystery, and as Sairmuse has delivered society of three evil-doers, the matter may be dropped. Thus the reputation of the famous detective has been vindicated and husband and wife are left to renew their happy alliance.
- A young girl, orphaned at an early age, carries out assassinations at the behest of her mentor.
- Miriam Lee is a young woman in New York who works hard for a living. Her life changes when she meets Joe Valdez, a handsome and ruthless gambler. After the couple is married Valdez opens an elegant gambling house and uses Miriam, who is nicknamed "the queen of the night", as bait to attract rich and gambling customers.
- Julie, a young noble woman is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read.
- Carney marries Agnes Maynard and soon forgets his old sorrow. Anne, tired of her mock wedded life, attempts to make Roland jealous of his wife. She induces Carney to visit the home of Randolph Parsons. There Roland finds his wife, but a sudden twist of affairs results in his discovering that Agnes is innocent. Anne tries new tactics now. She knows that Carney has been losing steadily in the stock market, through her husband's efforts to ruin the man his wife loves. Anne finds a memorandum on Martin's desk: "Corner B.H.R. Stock." She gives this information to Carney. He is overjoyed and grasps the tip eagerly. Martin, however, learns of what Anne has done, and reverses his tactics. The result is that Carney is ruined completely. In his rage, he thinks that Anne has tricked him purposely, and he goes to her, furious. While he is there, she sees Martin returning. She thinks she has an opportunity for revenge. She tears her clothing and lets down her hair. Then she turns out the lights and screams. Martin enters. Anne shrieks that Carney had been attacking her. Martin smiles and takes out the B.H.R. memorandum. "I know your game," he says. "Go," he tells Carney, "you are ruined. You have been punished enough." Martin bids his wife good-bye, and informs her that he is going to leave her. Anne falls senseless to the floor.
- A young Frenchman kills his best friend in a drunken fight. He vows to never touch another drop of liquor, but he goes back to the bottle when he hooks up with seductive Blanche Le Noir, and is soon an alcoholic. Blanche, however, prefers the sinister Lantier, and tries to use Lantier's daughter to get to him. However, the daughter is saved by the efforts of young American RIchard Lee, who marries her. Unfortunately, Lee's sister is seduced by Lantier. Complications ensue.
- Marooned on an island following a picnic, nurse Barbara Deming is victimized by Doctor Clayton, head of the hospital in which she works. After they are rescued, Clayton embarks on an arctic expedition led by Neil McClintock. Barbara gives birth to a daughter, who is secretly cared for by a fellow nurse. She later marries Neil without telling him about her daughter. Clayton visits the McClintock home, where he informs Neil of Barbara's secret. Meanwhile, her child becomes dangerously ill and Clayton saves her life. The doctor leaves for another arctic voyage, and Barbara's daughter becomes a part of the McClintock family.
- Sylvia Mason, a mysterious girl, lives in a cabin by herself and sells her bead work to the visitors at a large hotel nearby. At the hotel, Sylvia meets Easterner Henry Hilliard, who falls in love with her, but she refuses to marry him and will not explain her reasons. Thus Henry returns East without learning that Sylvia's father had been murdered by his private secretary Jack Leslie in revenge for her refusal to marry him. One night after Henry's departure, Leslie, now known as the outlaw "The Shadow", breaks into Sylvia's cabin. There is a struggle that leaves Sylvia unconscious, and when she awakens she finds a note claiming that because Leslie has violated her, she must marry him. Meanwhile Henry's mother, horrified that her son wants to marry this strange girl, informs Sylvia that their marriage would destroy him. Sylvia agrees to give up Henry, but he learns her story from Padre Constantine and goes to search for her. Sylvia has gone to Leslie and Henry follows. In the ensuing fight, Henry forces Leslie to admit with his dying breath that he has lied to Sylvia.
- Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
- This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain of an opium-smuggling ship, going into a notorious Chinese joint called "The House of a Thousand Delights," where he finds a beautiful girl, Mary Blake, bound and captive. He starts a brawl, rescues Mary in the mêlée that follows, and then loses her when she flees to a hotel. He follows her and finds she is mixed up in some mysterious activity. However, he knows more about her than she does him (because he isn't what he is supposed to be - and she isn't, either), he stays close by, even to the point of using a machine-gun to dispel a mob at a Chinese temple.
- A prisoner copes with being in a strait jacket by projecting his mind throughout time and space.
- Reporter Will Campbell has himself arrested and imprisoned, where he gathers information to prove his theory that most victims of capital punishment are wrongfully condemned. Following his parole, Will finds work in a bank with the help of Minnie O'Reilly. When a detective is shot during an attempted robbery, Will grabs the gun and pursues the killer. However, Will is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder. His innocence is discovered too late and Will is hanged, seconds before the prison warden receives a stay of execution. Hoping to rectify the injustice, the warden allows a doctor to experiment on the body with adrenaline, and Will is brought back to life. After he is released, Will discovers that his nagging wife has divorced him and he reunites with Minnie.
- Two con men, Pop Clark and Harry Leland, take rooms in a small town boardinghouse, where Leland makes love to Doris Moore, a young woman restless to leave her village. Leland convinces Doris to follow the con men to New York City, where she stays in a boardinghouse run by Kate Fallon, a woman with a disreputable past who poses as Leland's aunt. Clark and Leland plan to use Doris to lure young engineer William Lake into a compromising situation, but Kate, who has befriended Doris, tells Lake of the con men's plan, and Lake removes Doris from the clutches of Clark and Leland. Meanwhile, Laylock, a reformed crook and a friend of Kate's, is freed from jail, where he was placed through the contrivance of Clark and Leland, and kills Leland in a pistol duel. Lake persuades his friend, Inspector Bruce, that Leland has committed suicide, and Laylock goes free. Finally, Doris and Lake become engaged.
- Accompanied by Thunder, the dog who rescued him from the firing line in France, World War veteran Ray Chambers goes to the mountains to recover from his war injuries. There he meets Martha Larned, a lonely mountain girl who lives with her little brother, Dick. Ray discovers that Martha is the sister of his dead buddy, Frank Larned, and he decides to stay and protect her from harassment by Jim Howard and his half-witted brother, Ez. When Dick is hurt in a fall, Ray goes for a doctor; Ez kills Jim and attacks Martha; and Thunder takes care of Ez. Ray and Martha then get married.
- During World War I, an enterprising and patriotic reporter named Jack Bartlett interviews President Woodrow Wilson on the importance of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Jack returns from Washington to find that Otto Crumley, a German sympathizer, has taken control of his newspaper, and when Crumley tears up the story, Jack resigns and joins the Liberty Loan campaign. After raising a large sum of money for the government, Jack succeeds in preventing a strike in a local munitions plant. Later, he learns that Crumley, actually a German agent, has stolen a secret gasoline substitute formula invented by William Desmond, the father of his girlfriend Margaret. Crumley imprisons Margaret, but Jack rescues her and then swims out to the schooner on which Crumley is making his escape. The spy apprehended, Jack turns the ship's guns on a German submarine and sinks it.
- 14 friends delve deep into the internet once a month to read out the weirdest and creepiest fan fictions ever written.
- A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
- A ship captain's beautiful daughter and a wealthy playboy who is searching for buried treasure find themselves stranded on a desert island.
- A love triangle set against the gold rush days in Alaska.
- After four men have proposed to Adele Moore, a beautiful young woman whose father wishes her to marry for financial reasons, she is undecided as to the one she prefers and decides to consult a fortune teller. Gazing into the crystal ball, Adele witnesses an enactment of the life she would lead with each one of them and is shocked to find every marriage ending in heartache. The lawyer proves faithless, the banker steals money, the doctor neglects her, and the poor clerk suggests that she sacrifice her honor to his threatening employer. Dismissing all of them, Adele moves to Vermont and opens a store. Business is slow until a passing salesman assumes management of the store and transforms it into a booming success. Happy at last, Adele agrees to marry him.
- A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
- After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
- A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.
- When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.
- After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
- Vicious hood 'Red' Kluger escapes from Folsom State Prison and follows through on his threats to the detective who arrested him and the D.A. who convicted him.
- After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
- A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
- The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
- The old weirdo lawyer Hagger will not let his nephew control his money affairs, even though he has become engaged to Senator Hartwich's daughter Elinor. The uncle himself does not have clean flour in the bag, he is taken in by a circus dancer, Alegria, and to get along with her, he hires burglars with himself, murders his servant, disguises himself as the director's brother and abducts Alegria. He IS insane, and finally indicates himself.
- A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
- A small-town doctor gets roped into helping a notorious bank robber.
- Rivalry between two gangs of thieves. The sympathetic group reforms; the others are brought to justice.
- A young flapper is mistaken for a prostitute and ends up facing a death sentence.
- Two peasant sisters flee Russia during the revolution and sail to America. One, Olga Farinova (Mae Murray), masquerades as a princess, becomes a noted actress, and marries a millionaire's son. Olga repudiates her sister, Zita (Mae Murray), who has no illusions about her past life or present poverty. When Olga is shot by Kaminoff (Elmo Lincoln), a rejected suitor, Zita is adopted into the husband's family.
- Percy Schwartz is the son of a rich trash-can manufacturer but forgoes joining the company business in order to write thriller movie stories about bigger-than-life heroes, which he also aspires to be. Percy is deeply in love with Ruth Rand, the niece of Dr. Rand. a world-exploring scientist who majors in the mysteries of the Orient. The latter, after hearing Percy read one of his blood-curdling scenarios to the awe-struck Ruth, decides to test Percy character. Percy goes to ask Dr. Rand for Ruth's hand-in-marriage and finds him in his study going through some Orienral artifacts with his giant Hindu servant, Kotah. Dr. Rand later informs Percy that Ruth has been abducted and he needs Percy to help rescue her.
- A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
- In 1934, a New York reporter infiltrates a crime syndicate by befriending its boss who is serving time inside Blackwell Island prison.
- Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.