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- People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
- This musical short film features a song and dance revue with performances by children, including The Meglin Kiddies and The Gumm Sisters, featuring a seven-year-old Frances Gumm, later to be known as Judy Garland.
- Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
- Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...
- After a plane makes an emergency landing, passengers take refuge in a deserted house, but one of them is a killer.
- Bob Gordon comes from a rich background but wants make it on his own. He dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter and he eventually gets his chance.
- The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
- A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
- A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.
- A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
- A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
- A man, his wife and his best friend are aboard a yacht at sea that later gets shipwrecked. The husband soon starts to resent the attention paid to his wife by his friend.
- A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
- A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
- An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
- Over the objections of her father (Henry B. Wathall) Doris Maynard (Barbara Kent) elopes with family chauffeur Dan Simmons (Eddie Phillips). Simmons pawns her jewels, forges her father's name on a bank note and leaves Doris a note to go home and let her father support her. A year or two later, Doris meets and falls in love with and marries Donald Thorne (Monte Blue), a crusading district attorney. Her father advises her to let the past remain buried and unrevealed. A campaign for re-election is on and Thorne has the machine organization in despair. Denman (Dewey Robinson), the machine head, is desperate and gets hold of Manners (William V. Mong), a former butler in Thorne's home who had been fired by Doris for petty theft. Manners agrees to plant some manufactured evidence in Thorne's home to discredit him. Manners, with Thorne out of town and the servants off, has no problem entering the Thorne residence. Neither does Simmons who breaks in upstairs with intentions of blackmailing Doris about her past. Downstairs, Manners is placing the framed evidence in a secret drawer of the library table when he discovers a gun that Thorne had given Doris for protection. He hears voices upstairs, investigates and overhears Simmons making his blackmail demands of Doris. She gives him her money and jewels and he departs, followed by Manners, who kills Simmons and throws the gun in the bushes. An investigation, spurred by Denman, reveals the murdered man was Mrs. Donald Thorne's unrevealed ex-husband and the murder weapon the gun Thorne had left for Doris' protection. None of this information bodes well for Thorne's re-election campaign.
- A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.
- A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
- When a wife finds out that her husband has fallen for a chorus girl, she figures that if he can stray so can she, so she starts looking elsewhere.
- A woman who works in a dance hall attracts the attention of a bored but rich drunk, which causes friction with her boyfriend.
- "Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.
- Belle (Mary Nolan), cafe waitress on the San Francisco docks, becomes the moll of small-time racketeer Vance (Jon Davidson), but a slumming novelist John Banning (Jason Robards Sr.), decides to rescue her from chosen seedy life.
- Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
- A doctor's wife in a small town tires of serving as his nurse and wants some "excitement", so she leaves for the big city to become a model. She rooms with a sophisticated city girl, Milly, and winds up having an affair with the lecherous owner of a gown shop. Her husband, meanwhile, has been made head of the local hospital, but when he tries to get his wife to come home, she demands a divorce, believing that her lover wants to marry her. Complications ensue.
- When a railroad engineer refuses to participate in a strike, the union drops him and he loses his job.
- Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
- The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.
- When a nurse is found murdered, the doctor she worked for is accused of the crime. A reporter, who's attracted to the doctor's daughter, sets out to prove his innocence.
- After a judge sentences a man to prison, he uses his authority to adopt the mans's daughter then makes sure that the man will spend the rest of his life in prison. Outraged, the convict breaks out of prison to take his revenge on the judge.
- Two criminal gangs are at war with each other, and lawmen decided to use that to bring both gangs down.
- To fulfill the requirements for obtaining a large inheritance, a man must travel around the world. In his travels he comes upon a deposed princess, and falls in love.
- During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.
- A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
- An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
- When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
- An international criminal comes into the possession of incriminating evidence that can implicate some very important people in criminal activity.
- A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
- The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...
- Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his wife were off on a two-day holiday. Unknown to Smith, Jessup and his partner, Ross King, had a large cache of ivory tusks in the jungle, and he had told Phil about it. Meanwhile, Mary Smith has decided to steam-boat down the Congo River to Capetown for an extended holiday. Kuba, King's gun-bearer, asks Smith to write a letter to King, currently residing at a New York City Explorer's Club, and advise him that his partner has died. Talbot sends a letter to his stateside sweetheart, Diane Cameron, and her father, asking them to come to Africa and join him on an ivory-treasure expedition, and replenish their family-fortune lost in the recent stock-market crash. What Mr. Cameron and Diane don't know about Talbot is that his years in Africa have unhinged him. On the voyage over, Diane meets Ross,and they fall in love. The Camerons, King and Talbot start on a trek to find the ivory, but Talbot has his own agenda regarding the ivory.
- Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (Mathew Betz) and his henchmen have used this ruse to get him off his beat in order to rob a warehouse. The Police Commissioner (DeWitt Jennings), knowing Trent is innocent, suggests he be dismissed from the force and get a job with the gang. At Cantor's swank gambling establishment Trent finds his girlfriend, Molly Malone (Ada Ince), who has been searching for him. With the evidence he has gathered, Trent captures Cantor and calls for the police.
- A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
- Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
- A countess boasts that she can easily pull off a jewel robbery. A professional jewel thief beats her to the punch, but then finds that his newfound loot has been stolen by a pretty young woman.
- A wealthy family loses all of its money, but a foreign count who has married into the family helps them out.
- The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.