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- The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
- Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.
- A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
- A group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
- A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself.
- A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
- Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
- A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity
- A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.
- A music composer, disheartened by the failure of BBC radio to play any of his compositions, decides to set up his own pirate radio station.
- Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
- Paul Verlaine is a struggling composer whose assistant Germaine is secretly in love with him. Starring John Garrick and Merle Oberon.
- Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder.
- The Beckius family lives near the border to Russia. Their youngest son, Armas, lives a wild life that ultimately leads to a break with the family and he then takes off and joins the Russian Revolution.
- A clergyman finds himself hounded out of his clergy by gossip and turns to a new purpose in life.
- A fortunate young man discovers gold and is then threatened by a jealous, leering villain.
- Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
- On a caravan to California, Dr. Holt Ezra punishes his wife Hetty for flirting with young men. The caravan stops in the town of Independence.
- The beautiful dancer Barberina lies at the foot of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, too, wants to engage her in his opera house. When she refuses, he lets her take her under military surveillance to Berlin, forces her to appear, and tries so eagerly for her that a love-story seems to arise between them. However, when Friedrich goes to war with Austria, Barberina falls in love with the secretary baron of Cocceji. After a concert on the occasion of the King's return, she wants to flee abroad with Cocceji.
- A story of murder, greed and sibling rivalry in music and love. Classic good v evil.
- An "Apache dancer" saves an American girl's life in a café in Paris. Shortly afterwards he inherits a lot of money, and travels to the US to find the girl, whom he has fallen in love with, and ask her to marry him. However, he comes up against several people who want to discredit him to the girl, and will stop at nothing to do so.
- Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery.
- Ichabod Crane has been invited to Katrina Van Tassel's Party while reading about the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
- Blake, the crooked foreman of a cattle ranch, murders a sheep rancher. Then after framing ranch hand Jack for the murder, he urges the ranch hands to hang him. But Jack's dog Wolfheart finds evidence implicating Blake in the murder. The ranch owner then stops the hanging and Jack and Wolfheart head out after Blake.
- A musician falls in love with the daughter of a count, who he had killed in a duel over his wife.
- Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at a company party. From there it is a downward spiral.
- On a desolate farm, a man and his grown daughter eek out a living. He's aging and ill; she's lonely and wan. He's adamant that she have no contact with men, so she's a prisoner of the farm. One hot day, while she takes a nap beside a haystack after plowing, a drifter approaches her. She sees a chance at a life less desperate. The drifter comes for supper and the old farmer let's the young man spend the night. But will he allow his daughter's longing to express itself, and if she must, who will she choose?
- Arizona cowboy Paul Garrison vows to capture King, the stallion leader of a herd of wild horses. The horse, meanwhile, ingeniously frees a stable of horses from the ranch of wealthy Clarence Dorance, whose polo pony Diana VII is the apple of King's eye. Paul saves the endangered Nancy Dorance from the stampede and recovers Diana VII, only to have her stolen by Scar Satilleo, an Indian, who paints the mare so as to disguise her. King sees through this ruse and frees his love, only to be finally captured by Garrison and his pal, Zip Jones. The cowboy then enters the Santa Barbara polo matches astride King, defeats a persistent rival, Barry Kahn, and wins both the Travor Cup and Nancy's hand in marriage.
- Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
- Mimi, known in the Latin Quarter as "The Mad Dancer," poses in the nude for sculptor Verlaine. When her father later commits suicide, she goes to the United States to live with his family, but she is insulted by them for having posed for Verlaine. Mimi soon walks out and goes to live in Washington, where she becomes engaged to Keith Arundel, the son of a United States senator. Verlaine appears in Washington for the official unveiling of the statue for which Mimi posed, meets Mimi again, and unsuccessfully attempts to force her to marry him by threatening to reveal that she was the model for this statue of "the mad dancer." Mimi later enters Verlaine's room and smashes the head of the statue beyond recognition. When the mutilated work is unveiled, the sculptor in his fury relates Mimi's history to the assembled guests. Keith knocks him down. Senator Arundel later bribes Verlaine into publicly retracting his statement, and Keith and Mimi are married.
- A sacked ship's engineer stows away on another ship and uncovers a mutinous crew.
- A doctor shoots a girl to save her from Indians and later finds that her fiancé is his rival for another girl.
- A racing tipster succeeds for his clients but fails when he bets for himself.
- Two sisters form a double-act after the retirement of their parents.
- When wealthy ne'er-do-well Jeffrey Downs becomes raucously drunk at a bachelor party marking his engagement to Lorella Cavendore, he buys the animals in a vaudeville act and takes them home. When he awakens the next morning, Jeffrey is astonished to find the animals, especially a performing horse named White Star, in his room. Jeffrey's family, eager for him to settle down, have ordered him to get married or be disinherited, but Lorella's mother, society matron Mrs. Henrietta Cavendore, is shocked after reading the news accounts of the wild party and determines that Lorella must break the engagement. That same morning, Boris Pizaza, who owns the vaudeville act, arrives at the house with his daughter Nell because Jeffrey had proposed to her the night before. Nell realizes that Jeffrey did not really mean to propose and is willing to give back the money he paid for the animals, but just then Lorella and her mother arrive. Although Jeffrey tries to sequester Nell, her father and the animals in a closet, they fall out and Mrs. Cavendore insists on breaking the engagement. Jeffrey's predicament is further complicated by the arrival or his father Jim and grandfather Jim. After another wild party that afternoon, Grandfather Jim tells Jeffrey that he must decide between his family and keeping the animals. Jeffrey selects the animals and is then disinherited. Sometime later, after Jeffrey has joined the vaudeville act, Nell is lured to a bungalow owned by Karl Kenton, the cad who had arranged Jeffrey's disastrous parties. Pretending to poison herself rather than submit, she escapes, after which Jeffrey, who has fallen in love with her, goes to Karl's and fights with him. Following a series of escapades, and with the aid of his valet, Lewis, and White Star, Jeffrey finally reconciles with his family and marries Nell.