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- A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.
- In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.
- An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
- Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
- A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.
- A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.
- A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
- A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
- Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child, resulting in lifelong rivalry.
- To flee from a tireless Forest Ranger, the shabby vagrants, Stan and Ollie, find refuge at a colonel's mansion that is vacant for the weekend. Soon, a couple of newly-weds arrive in hopes of renting the manor. Where is the rightful owner?
- A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
- A broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
- Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.
- A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
- A lonely husband whose wife has been away hires a lookalike impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. Confusion prevails when his wife returns that evening.
- A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
- Blase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the 'wild west ' by his father.
- A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
- A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
- The comic adventures of a new car owner.
- A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
- While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
- While at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother's permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.
- Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.
- A boy's family is wiped out in an Indian massacre of a wagon train and he is captured. He befriends a wild colt. Years later, following his escape, he is recaptured by Indians who force him to fight their vicious devil horse . The horse looks somewhat familiar.
- An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
- A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
- After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
- After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
- Serial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.
- A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
- An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.
- Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
- Country bumpkin Frank Marham comes to New York City to work in a world-famous jewelry store. At the hotel where he lives, Frank meets Ruth Gardner, a newspaper reporter who is investigating the operations of a gang of jewel thieves, as is also her admirer, detective Dan Lantry. The store's manager, Roger Imlay, is a member of the gang which is planning to steal the famous emerald known as the "Green Flame," owned by the proprietor. Capitalizing on Frank's naïveté, Imlay tricks him into bringing the gem to the gang's headquarters, but Frank, actually a member of the Jeweler's Protective Association, surprises the crooks. At that moment, Lantry arrives and, mistaking Frank for the leader of the crooks, is about to arrest him when the owner of the store arrives and explains that he had hired Frank to watch Imlay. The mystery satisfactorily solved, Ruth and Frank fall into each other's arms.
- A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.
- Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
- Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
- Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
- A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
- Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on an old locomotive, sees an engineer try to rival him both on the work and love front as they compete for the love of the same woman, and for the run as the official mail train.
- Her Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system.
- After being scooped for a scandal story, a reporter has 24 hours to dig up a more scandalous story. After spending the night in the wrong street, he comes up with a plan: catch the Countess and her butler in a compromising situation.
- A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
- A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
- Snitch steals Ginger's baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game.
- In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.