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- The view represents boats sailing on the Marne at Joinville (near Paris).
- A man with a very heavy jag on staggers from a saloon, and it happens that he is just barely able to remember that he started out to buy a calf's head for his wife. He staggers to a butcher's and buys it, takes it under his arm and starts his zig-zag way homeward. But while leaning up against a wall to rest he falls asleep, and here is where two mischievous boys take up the proceedings. They take the calf's head from under his arm, remove his hat and placing it down over his skull, have soon fitted it on him in the reverse position with the ace backward. He awakens under the operation and the two boys begin to pull him through the streets. The trio run into two policemen and the officers promptly take the calf-headed man in band. They pull him through the streets just as a school dismisses its pupils and the horde of boys swarm around captive and captors, dancing joyfully and tormenting them. They finally reach the police station and here the magistrate orders the peculiar headgear taken off the prisoner, but he is hopelessly drunk and with many kicks and cuffs he is thrown into a cell. Here he falls asleep and his dream is shown. He finds himself in a garden where bottles and bottles of liquor dance before him and disappear when he tries to grasp them. Casks open and girls emerge, but as he tries to grasp them they disappear in flame. Enraged he routs them all and engages in a struggle with one of their number, a big, fat fellow ; but while they roll on the floor the drunkard remembers and finds himself fighting with a ponderous policeman. Help comes and the prisoner is dragged up the stairs and into the magistrate s office again, receiving many vigorous punches and kicks. Here he finds his wife, an energetic, little woman, waiting for him, and after glaring at him for a moment she calmly orders him out before her. He does so.
- King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
- A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
- Countess Maria believes that her only son, Luis, has died in the war in Morocco. Heartbroken, she lives surrounded by greedy relatives, but one day she receives a visit from Rosario.
- The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- In his brilliant documentary study shot at 20 years old, Marcel Carné, while filming the ginguettes of the edges of Marne, sketches a poetic disenchanted of the laborious petty bourgeoisie of the large modern cities, of which one finds the elements at the same time in Germany in "People on Sunday" by Robert Siodmak or the United States in "Lonesome" by Paul Fejos.
- Robert Chapelain, a renowned lawyer, loves Annette Rollan, a salesgirl. When his children Jean and Jacqueline witness their uncle telling their father that the woman is no good for him, they invite Annette to ask her to leave Robert.
- Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
- Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion house one day, he falls in love with the store clerk Joyce Roamer.
- Lady Lillian Gardner is unhappily married to rich businessman Richard Gardner. On a banquet she meets Hugo Paton whom she falls in love with.
- Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet Lise, his daughter, again. But, to his dismay, he finds that Lise, through the fault of André, her lover and pimp, has unwillingly committed a murder.
- Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband. Hammond falls in love with a Chinese woman, however, and Leslie shoots him dead.
- Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.
- Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3 ruffians search for gold there, he summons the courage to defend her and his turf.
- Sonja is a spoiled young lady who thinks she can get anything for money. She is living a life in luxury. One day she meets a lawyer who is a public prosecutor. They fall in love.
- Gisèle accidentally marries her stalker when she thinks she is signing a hotel register in a foreign country.
- Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.
- Maria, a young Russian student, is loved by Viktor Sabline, a Russian scientist. They marry and immediately afterwards, the World War breaks out and Viktor is drafted as lieutenant.
- Greta, Nick and Tony are trapeze artists at the Dixon Circus, but Nick, in love with Greta, is jealous of her friendship with Tony.