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- A doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.
- Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
- Handsome adventurer, soldier, and traveler, Rupert Garland, announces to the press that all men are cowards, including himself. One of his fellow club members, desiring to test the effectiveness of his statement, advertises for a coward to call at his home, and Garland, taking on the offer, bets he will prove himself to be a coward. At the house prepared for him, Garland meets Isabell, the old man's niece, and a gang headed by Purviance, an ex-actor: he is chased by a dog, climbs a tree, and scales the wall into the yard to avoid a sniper. Garland becomes a rival of Colonel Ortegas for the love of Isabell and wins a fight with Bull Harper, the chief henchman. The conspirators are arrested, and Garland and Isabell find happiness.
- A dim-witted American is caught up with arms dealers in South America.
- Daphne Carrol, once a "plain Jane," returns from Paris a "polished" flapper, and finding that her love for Custis Lee, her sister's brother-in-law, is not reciprocated, sets out to win him. His brother, Jack Lee, managing editor of the local newspaper, orders a conspicuous report of Daphne's return, but through an error her picture appears over a news item citing the escape from an insane asylum of Sally Long, bent on revenge on her husband. Daphne gains entrance to Custis' house and poses as Sally, disclaiming him as her husband. Fearful of his life, he humors her until he can engage a nurse to watch her. Daphne enjoys the joke until she discovers that her nurse is actually Sally--and Sally's husband tries to rob the Custis home. In the merry mix-up Daphne faints in Custis' arms and is forced to declare that she is his wife; after the complications are resolved, they decide to make the arrangement legal.
- A young millionaire's life is turned upside down when his twin brother, an escaped convict, begins to impersonate him.
- Happy-go-lucky Billy, his best friend and their friendly rival, are all sailors on a ship in the U.S. Pacific fleet. While on shore leave, Billy learns that a mad inventor has created a dangerous contraption by which he intends to destroy the entire fleet. The three sailors then spring into action and are able to thwart the scientist and save the fleet after rescuing Billy's sweetheart.
- Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.
- The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won. Determined to regain his honor, Billy goes into training, with his valet's help. Billy arranges to finance a boxing match with Burke, but because Billy's father objects, the fight must take place on a raft near Coney Island. Billy finally wins the fight, thereby impressing his fiancée and winning the respect of his father.
- Eve Allen marries John Waring for his money and admits it, as she still has a lasting love for her old sweetheart, Ralph Deane. When the Warings return from their honeymoon, Ralph asks Eve to see him once more, and while driving in the country he breaks down Eve's resistance and she admits she loves him. She goes home and tells John, who begins divorce proceedings. Patsy Allen, Eve's sister, tries to break up Eve's affair with Ralph, as she knows he is keeping company with Vixen, a sensuous woman. Patsy goes to Ralph's home for dinner, where Vixen grows jealous and shoots and kills him while he and John are fighting. John is accused of the murder but is cleared. Vixen commits suicide, and Eve returns to John, now believing that John is the only man for her--not surprising, since Ralph is dead.
- A romance, started during World War I in France, between an American soldier and a French girl, finds its climax a few years later in an American mining town.
- After Rex leaves his father to follow his dream of being a professional boxer, he becomes the trainer at a women's gym owned by his girlfriend.
- Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision. They regain consciousness and find themselves together on the same bed in a near-by farm house. Ralph decides he no longer wants a divorce. Lillian decides she will a Marine Captain.
- Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
- Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
- The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.
- Billy Griffin, who is in love with Catherine Curtis, the daughter of fight promoter James Curtis, must fight her father in order to win her hand in marriage. Despite his ignorance of boxing, Billy puts on the gloves, and the elder Curtis knocks him senseless. When Billy awakens, he has lost his memory. Billy is later sentenced to 90 days in jail, where his cellmate, a former boxer, sees he has a natural punch and teaches him the fistic art. After his release, Billy becomes a boxer and is soon successful enough to be matched with the light heavyweight champion, Young Dillon. Suddenly, Billy regains his memory and remembers nothing of his days as a fighter. He enters the ring with the champ, and for several rounds he is badly beaten. However, Catherine taunts Billy, calling him "yellow" until he becomes greatly angered. He handily wins the fight, but refuses to speak to Catherine. After learning she was only using his anger to save him, Billy chases after her taxi cab and, after leaping on the roof of the speeding vehicle, wins her for his bride.
- A politician's career and marriage are both threatened by a scandal caused by his younger brother's past antics.
- When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine, a young girl, is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
- Although in love with Virginia Philips, Lew Tyler refuses to be supported by his rich prospective father-in-law, causing her to break the engagement. Thus cast off by Virginia and insulted by her father, Tyler finds distraction in Jessie Winkler, an old friend; and through the efforts of Buzzy, a business partner, Lew and Jessie marry. Their marriage is unsuccessful, and Lew, haunted by the memory of Virginia, seeks forgetfulness in a liaison with Coleen Miles, a neighbor. On the night Jessie sees him with Coleen, their child dies, and Lew remorsefully dulls his sorrow by drinking. Jessie is granted a divorce, and Virginia's father, regretting his treatment of Lew, effects a reconciliation between him and Virginia, and they are married. On the night Virginia's child is born, Jessie comes to nurse her, and Lew humbly seeks a means of reparation for his failure; he agrees to finance a hospital for poor children and thereby ensures her happiness.
- Harry Wells, a New Yorker, takes his friend Bob Travers, a westerner visiting the city, to a cafe for an evening of pleasure. When Bob becomes interested in Floss, the chief chorus girl, he incurs the wrath of Spike, owner of the cafe, who is in love with her. The next night Bob goes again to the cafe, where to their mutual chagrin he meets Harry. Spike, it is revealed, is a bootlegger in partnership with Nick, co-owner of the cafe. They find Bob snooping around, knock him out, and, taking Floss, whom they suspect of knowing too much, go off to run a big shipment of liquor. Harry, with a gang of roughnecks in his car, rescues Bob and trails Spike. When the liquor is being unloaded, Harry's men--all revenue agents disguised as hijackers--start a fight, and Bob rescues Floss. It is revealed that Harry and Floss are detectives pursuing Spike and his gang, and Bob and Floss find happiness in each other.
- After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
- The captain of a ship carrying contraband from Mexico to the United States is forced by his crew to stop to rescue a young woman who is the sole survivor of a wrecked ship. The crew mutinies, killing all officers save David Mills, the new second mate, the only navigator left on board. Agreeing to steer the ship if the girl is left unharmed, they are safe for a time, but the crew again grows restless. In the end, they escape the crew and weather a fierce storm with the help of the faithful Black cook.
- The town is depending on Jimmy O'Day to be the victor in a prizefight so that money can bring back jobs. His girlfriend Alice stands by him as he deals with the pressure of training and people's expectations.
- A couple recall their son's death in the war whilst a singer (on stage) sings 'Tommy Lad,' 'Land of Hope and Glory,' etc.
- Roy Cummins, a former military pilot, runs exhibition flights at a summer resort. Returning from a trip to fly a passenger to a steamship--for which he was paid $500--he meets Patricia Barton, who warns him against accepting the money. It seems she has learned that the passenger he has delivered to the ship is a criminal fleeing the law with some valuable stolen goods. He soon finds himself mixed up with a ring of thieves, airborne bandits who attack cargo planes and a sexy "vamp" sent by the gang's leader to seduce him into turning over what information he knows about them.
- No longer a lost film. Found in very good condition in the collection of the Dordrecht Regional Archives. Returning from World War I, Bob Warne finds that his father's airplane factory has been taken over. Getting employment at a rival factory, he enters an air race in order to win a government contract. Faced repeated attempts at sabotage. Is he triumphant? (No spoiler)
- Bob is sent to the apartment of a theatrical producer to write a new last act to his comedy. A man accuses him of picking his pocket. To save time Bob takes to flight. He takes refuge in the entrance to a jeweler's store and sees June, who buys a $10,000 necklace. They are attracted. In the apartment he works furiously and does not see a burglar jimmy open the safe. He is given the necklace by June's father, who believes he is a pawnshop agent. Bob leaves the necklace on the table, where the burglar finds it. The burglar gets into an apartment with a yelling child. The burglar thinks the child swallows the necklace and kidnaps it. Bob is accused by June of stealing her pearls and kidnapping the child. He proves his innocence only after a series of farcical situations.
- After graduating from college, timid young Billy Tanner is told by his guardians that his late father had worked in a circus, and he must now enter the family trade. Sometime later, Billy accidentally knocks out a boxing champion, who challenges him to a match. Billy does not do well in the bout until the circus owner, Old Man Barnabas Tingling, instructs him on how to land a punch. After winning the fight, Billy saves the Tingling Circus and wins the love of the owner's daughter.
- Old Ironsides, an automobile manufacturer, is infuriated to learn that his competitor, Greydon, has improved the motor on his racing "Greyhound," which is superior to his own "Skyrocket." His son Speedy, the factory superintendent, who is in love with Paula Greydon, informs his father that a new high speed carburetor will restore supremacy to the Rockett car. At a social affair, Mr. Rockett and his son become involved with fortune hunters Eleanor Hoyt and Mrs. Pennywaite, aided and abetted by Brett, who is an avid suitor of Paula's and has a financial investment in the Greydon car. Later he attempts to waylay Speedy, and in desperation he kidnaps him the night before the race; after many difficulties, Speedy escapes, reaches the track via airplane, and wins the race, in spite of Brett's attempts at sabotage. Paula and Speedy's marriage consolidates the business firms.
- A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.
- A native Californian guide is discharged by the leader of a wagon train because he dares to make love to the latter's daughter. Sometime later he comes upon them again and is in time to save the girl he loves from an attack by the Indians.
- An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There he meets and falls for a pretty young woman whose father happens to be the man the agent suspects of heading the gang.
- While Scotty McTavish is driving around his his big automobile, he sees a very pretty girl enter his father's railroad yards and falls in love at first sight. He borrows some blue overalls, gets by the gate-man and applies to the yard-foreman, "Slugger" Martin for a job. Scotty tells Martin his main objective is to meet the girl. The girl is Patsy Thorne, daughter of the yardmaster, and also the apple of Martin's eye. Martin also is more than a little bit crooked and he makes things very complicated before Scotty and Patsy can get together.
- Helene is forced into marrying blackmailer Vaughan Neil, who holds incriminating evidence of a scandal involving her father. In a struggle with the girl the villain is killed, and she is suspected. But eventually she is cleared and finds happiness with the Mountie assigned to the case.
- Mrs. Abbott, an elderly newspaper vendor in dire straits, is taken in by Rupert Dodds, an art dealer, and Dick Foster, his young companion, who see in her transparent honesty an excellent shield for illegal activities in their art shop, where they remold gold and silver articles. Mrs. Abbott soon grows fond of Dick, who calls her "Mother," and she promotes his love for Trixie, the bookkeeper; but she becomes suspicious of Dodds and Dick when she overhears them congratulating themselves over their recent success. Mrs. Abbott discovers that they are planning to rob the home of Lady Broderick, a wealthy customer, and she follows them to prevent the crime, but she is captured and held accountable for robbing the safe. She is tried and convicted just as Dick confesses and clears her of the crime; and in the belief that Dick will reform, the judge sets him free. It develops that Mrs. Abbott is the long-lost sister of Lady Broderick and is the heiress to an English estate. Dick and Trixie are married and spend their honeymoon in England.
- After boxer Billy Barton gives blood to save the life of a seriously injured opponent, he becomes so weak that he can no longer fight. This prompts him to return to his former job as a jockey. He helps a horse-ranch owner to transport a thoroughbred to a big race in Kentucky. Then, when circumstances lead to their arrest, Billy is let out of jail in time to enter and win a boxing match for the purse, which he then uses to finance his entry in the race. Billy rides the horse to victory, thus saving the rancher and winning the hand of the rancher's daughter.