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- Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
- Dan and Myra Barclay are forced to shorten their vacation in Monaco when Dan is placed in charge of a South American gold mine. Myra can no longer tolerate the monotony of life in the rustic village and runs off with Señor Ortego, the owner of the mine. Realizing that Ortego's intentions are dishonorable, Myra decides to return to Dan, until a head injury causes her to lose her memory. While she recuperates in a country rest home, Dan is imprisoned for the attempted murder of Ortego. He escapes with the help of Ricardo, a fellow prisoner who also has a grudge against the mine owner. They arrive at Ortego's home, where Ricardo stabs Ortego to death. Dan makes his way to the rest home and the sight of him restores Myra's memory, resulting in a happy reunion.
- Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.
- A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, which follows the successful attempt to expose the mystery of her birth.
- Veteran postman Bob Morley (Ralph Lewis) and his son Johnnie (Johnnie Walker) are honored for their service to the U. S. Mail Service. When Johnnie takes a position on the Enterprise, he is falsely convicted of theft and murder when the cargo is stolen and the ship's officer is shot. Finally, a confession from the real culprit saves Johnnie from being executed.
- Young Lenore Vance, loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father. She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her eccentric chemist uncle. She later becomes the person of interest in the murder of her father, being labeled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". When Dr. Richard Taunton meets Lenore at a party thrown by Millie Brown-Potter, he becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from himself and Mrs. Potter, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself, and makes the discovery that he Uncle is the one who killed her father. The police are notified, but they discover that he has committed suicide upon arriving at his house. It is later revealed to the audience that the entire story is in a book that Lenore is reading.
- Tip O'Neil is the livest wire on the Herald's staff. He has gathered evidence against Logan - head of the Titanic Construction Co., and Dan Macey, a politician. Dan calls on Inspector Murphy of the Police Department, and warns him to "lay off." While in the Inspector's office Dan sees Ruth, the girl that Tip loves, at the safe where the evidence is placed. Dan goes to Rita who owns a Beauty Shoppe and is his "sweetie" and they plot to use a girl, Sophie, who closely resembles Ruth to get the evidence. Dan takes the evidence from Rita but she swears to get even. Inspector Murphy suspects Ruth of the loss of evidence. Tip believes otherwise. He becomes acquainted with Rita and learns where the evidence is kept. While in Dan's house he battles Dan's gang - he hears that Ruth is held captive on a boat - he escapes the gang and rescues Ruth. The Inspector goes to Dan's house but Dan has burned the envelope containing the evidence. Tip rushes in and takes the real evidence from under the carpet beside safe. Dan and his aids are arrested.
- Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign. Eric nearly kills Grant with his bare hands before the look of horror on Floria's face brings him back to his senses. Eric nurses Grant back to health. Grant, won over by Eric's goodness, reforms. Eric agrees to sell the land to Heatherton in order to establish the music conservatory that Floria has told him that she always wanted.
- A young flapper is mistaken for a prostitute and ends up facing a death sentence.
- Joe and Eleanor Woodbury lead an unhappy married life: she is fond of the gay life, and he is not. Together, they visit Nadia, a lovely young woman who tells the future by gazing into a crystal ball, and Joe and Nadia fall in love at first sight. Although Eleanor is having an affair with Gene Deering, a lounge lizard, she wants to stay married to Joe and therefore tells Nadia that she is pregnant. The diminutive crystal-gazer promises to stop seeing Joe, and Eleanor resumes her illicit relationship with Deering. Following a raid on a roadhouse where they are carousing, Eleanor and Deering are involved in an automobile accident and she is slightly hurt. The doctor who attends her later informs Nadia that Eleanor is not expecting a child, and Nadia telephones Joe to tell him of his wife's double deception. Joe then tells Eleanor that he is going to divorce her and goes to Nadia.
- Gertie Jones, a female raffles posing as a maid in a fancy home in order to rifle the safe, surprises Jimmy Hartigan in the act of robbing that very safe. She offers to split the take 50-50, a proposition to which he is about to agree when the police arrive. Jim takes full responsibility for the crime, protecting Gertie from arrest. Gertie helps Jim escape from jail, and they take refuge in the country, where they are married by an overeager magistrate who believes them to be an eloping couple. Jim and Gertie decide to go straight and return to the city, investing $10,000 in stolen cash with Bill Munson, who runs off with it. Jim is rearrested by a detective, and Gertie goes after Munson, recovering the money. Jim is being returned by rail to the penitentiary when Gertie boards the train, offering the money to the detective in return for Jim's freedom. The detective refuses until Jim and Gertie save his life when the train is caught in a tunnel collapse. The detective then promises to return the money, letting Jim go to begin a new life with Gertie.
- An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
- New Yorker David Kingston, a university student involved in the study of mine engineering, is falsely accused of theft and expelled from school. David's mother soon dies of grief, and he decides to end it all by jumping in the river. David is deterred from suicide, however, when he adopts a stray pup, which he names "Thunder." The dog later finds a map indicating the location of a gold mine, and David heads west to Northern California On the way to the mine, David stops at a sheep ranch, discovering there that the young daughter of the rancher is missing. Thunder soon finds the child, and David rescues her with the help of Randall Phillips, a mining engineer. Phillips later learns of David's map and attempts to kill him. Thunder is then falsely accused of killing sheep, being narrowly saved from the sheriff's posse by the little girl he rescued. David and the dog find the mine and enter its shaft, not knowing that Phillips has sabotaged it with dynamite. Phillips sets off the charge and is himself killed in the explosion; Thunder rescues David. The blast exposes a vein of gold, and David asks the oldest daughter of the sheep rancher, Marjorie, to marry him.
- A potter's confession to killing his brother gets turned into a vase beneath which it was hidden.
- The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
- A man poses as a baron, reconciles a couple, sells a corn cure, adopts a child, and marries a spinster.
- A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child.
- After being marooned in the South Seas for six years, Bob Randall returns to his home in Faith Harbor, Maine. He discovers that his sweetheart has married Jed Hobbs, a villainous sea captain, and that his mother, dispossessed of her home by Hobbs, has met an early death. Bob vows revenge, finds Hobbs at the village inn, and floors him in a fight. In the company of Jimson Weed, a new-found friend, Bob boards Hobbs's boat, hoping to prove him guilty of smuggling contraband. Bob and Jimson discover a load of guns and gunpowder bound for Central America and capture the members of the crew one by one. Hobbs at first eludes capture, but when he is cornered by Bob, he drops a lighted match into the powder hold. The ship is destroyed in the resulting explosion, but Hobbs alone is killed. Bob is then reunited with his former sweetheart, who is now free to marry him.
- Successful pugilist Brian O'Brien quits the ring to become a mechanic. He lends his winnings to a rival and opens his garage with a bank note. Meanwhile, his wife neglects him for a high society type, but she finally realizes her place with him when he recovers some stolen jewels and is acclaimed as a hero.
- A Venice city prefect's mistress saves his wife from a profiteer.
- A lieutenant saves his sister from spies and destroys a U-boat.
- After living in a boarding school for some years, Peggy Dean accepts the invitation of her Aunts Abigail and Salina to live with them. They warn her that she will be "on probation" because of the family's displeasure with Peggy's father for marrying an actress, so Peggy masquerades as an exceedingly prim and proper missionary. She must drop her disguise, however, to win James Landon. Disillusioned when he learns of her deceit, James leaves, but Peggy overtakes him in a racing car and brings about a reconciliation.
- An American girl reporter is assisted on stories by an English motorist.
- Texas Ranger Tom Hardy is ordered to find Big Wolf, an important Native American leader who has been abducted by outlaw Duke Granby. Tom's assistant, Little Wolf, is wounded and taken to the Reeves ranch, where the ranger meets and falls in love with Marion Reeves. Later, Marion reveals her concern for her brother, Jack, who is involved with the Granby gang. When Tom discovers Jack in a saloon with the criminals, a fight ensues leaving one man dead, and the blame is falsely placed on Jack. He runs to Marion for help, with Tom in pursuit. Marion holds Tom at gunpoint, enabling her brother to escape. Jack takes refuge in Granby's den, unaware that Little Wolf has been following him. The boy takes Tom to the hideout, where the ranger battles Granby. One of the outlaws blows up a dam, causing a flood. After Tom pulls Granby from the water, the outlaw exonerates Jack with his dying breath. The ranger then saves Marion from the flood, permanently winning her love.
- Having helped her husband from their days of poverty to a period of unexpected wealth, Marion Mason sees other women entering his life. Misunderstanding leads to divorce, but she insists on a large alimony, which she uses to save him after the other woman has wrecked his fortune. He asks her forgiveness, and they are remarried.
- A rich banker's eldest daughter marries her servant.
- An American girl reporter is assisted on stories by an English motorist.
- A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
- In Paris, a cynical widower makes his daughter become a crooked dancer, but she is reformed by love.
- Psychologist David Hale learns that his fiancée, Ann Page, has strong psychic powers. However, she falls under the influence of jewel thief Donald Duncan and agrees to marry him instead, apparently because he resembles her dead father. Ann accompanies Donald to his mother's cabin in the mountains, where she discovers her husband's true character. David is compelled by professional curiosity to follow the couple, and rescues Ann when the brutish Donald attacks her. That night, Donald's mother stabs her son while retrieving some stolen jewels, unaware of his identity. An operation to save Donald fails, leaving David and Ann free to marry.
- An American girl reporter is assisted on stories by an English motorist.
- Range rider befriends a family of homesteaders. Forces the villain to confess his guilt of a crime of which the man is accused. Then wins the man's sister, whom he at first believed was his wife.
- Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness of a gang of outlaws led by a mysterious man known as 'The Black Hawk.' Hoping to infiltrate the gang, he poses as an outlaw named "Lightning" Brady.
- A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face peering through the window but is identified by a revived corpse.
- When his design for a new dam is rejected, Peter Jamison prepares to leave town and proposes to Jane Coleridge, but her father's sudden death prevents Jane from meeting Peter. Five years pass, and Peter returns with his daughter and the explanation that his wife, Marie, deserted him. Peter and Jane's love grows anew, then Marie reappears and causes trouble for Jane. Marie dies in a dam burst.
- Misadventures of an incompetent German spy.
- An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
- A Texas Ranger believes a pretty young girl is involved with a gang of bank robbers and goes after her. It turns out that she isn't, but she is indirectly involved with them.
- Stories illustrate a discussion on whether God's greatest gift is humanity, piety, love, intellect, or self-sacrifice.