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- Tarzan and Jane are sailing for France in answer to a call for help from Countess de Coude who is being persecuted by her brother Rokoff.
- Bavahari, a half caste Indian girl, renounces her oath as a sacred dancer to the worship of Buddha. The High Priest, who secretly loves the girl, is enraged and vows vengeance. Bavahari marries an English army officer, and they move to Paris where she becomes a sensation as a dancer. After she deserts her husband, he kills himself at her feet. The High Priest, discovering that Bavahari is in Paris, announces his presence by marking the "Sign of Death" on her dressing room door. He then disguises himself as a Buddha idol. As Bavahari dances on stage, the High Priest kills her in front of the audience.
- A girl and a prince fall in love and plan to elope. But the prince's father dies, and the prince must ascend to the throne. The prince is forced to marry someone with royal blood. The girl attempts suicide. The prince, believing her dead, never sees her again until she rescues his baby from a 360-foot chimney, where it has been taken by a crazed circus chimpanzee.
- Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place. Corbin, who has been searching for Swifty, helps her escape, and the two are united.
- In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.
- Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
- Lassiter, a Texas Ranger, goes after the sect which has abducted his sister Millie. During his search, he encounters Jane Withersteen, who owns a rich estate. Lassiter saves a man named Venters from a whipping by men who think Venters is courting Jane. Lassiter takes Venters' place as manager of Jane's ranch, while Venters goes in search of cattle thieves. Venters discovers the thieves are led by a masked rider, and wounds the rider. The rider turns out to be female, and Venters nurses her back to health. Lassiter discovers that Millie is dead, and takes an orphan girl named Fay Larkin under his wing. When Fay is abducted by the same sect that had taken his sister, Lassiter takes his vengeance out on their leader, Dyer, and rescues Fay. As they are fleeing, they meet Venters and the masked rider, whom Lassiter recognizes as his sister's daughter, Bess. Venters and Bess ride east to be married, but Lassiter's escape route is cut off by pursuers, led by Elder Tull. Lassiter, Jane, and Fay find an entrance to a canyon, but it is blocked by a massive rock. Lassiter manages to push the rock down on Tull and his followers, but in the process, he seals himself, Jane, and Fay in the canyon.
- When Julian's wife Daisy leaves home to visit her sick father, he finds himself attracted to his best friend's wife Margaret, who has been neglected by her husband. Julian and Margaret take a drive to a mountain resort, and find themselves about to consummate their affair when something happens that makes her have second thoughts. Complications ensue.
- An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.
- Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to the race and must switch identities and vehicles before he can finish.
- The hunter becomes the hunted as Corporal James Kent (Lew Cody), of the Canadian Royal Mounted, fighting for his life, is guided to a secret valley, a refuge for wanted men, by a French-Canadian beauty, Marette Radison (Alma Ruben), with a secret of her own.
- Mary Ainslie has been waiting 30 years for her fiancé, a sea captain, to return. She has kept a light burning in her window to guide him home. His son Carl, by another woman, arrives on vacation in the New England village where Mary lives. Mary is overcome by the resemblance between the young man and his father. The young man falls in love with Ruth, Mary's young comrade. On her deathbed, Mary wishes Carl and Ruth the romantic life that she did not live.
- Richard Hall is a successful writer; his wife, Alice is interested in pursuing a career as a singer. She meets musical agent James Hamilton, who arranges an opera engagement with Rimini, an impresario. Hall quarrels with his wife over this and they separate, with Hall taking their daughter Grace. When Hall attempts to reconcile with his wife, he finds Hamilton with her. Enraged, he kills Hamilton and is sentenced to life in prison. Twenty years later, Hall is paroled. His wife has had a successful career as a singer, but her best years are behind her. She attempts to reconcile with Grace, but her daughter, now a widow with a child, refuses. Grace now works as a secretary for a philanthropist named John Reed, who wants to marry her. Unable to find work, Hall applies to Reed for help and recognizes Grace there. When Hall is arrested again, he refuses help, because he feels he has come between Grace and Reed.
- Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
- Jim Rittenshaw is happily married to Daisy, or so he thinks. Richard Desborough, Jim's friend from his college days, becomes enamored of Daisy, who leads him on. Desborough lives by the creed "No God. No Sin. No future life." Desborough neglects his own wife and child. His wife Caroline goes to Rittenshaw and tells him what is going on. Rittenshaw then kills Desborough. However, before his spirit can be at rest, Desborough must make right the things he left wronged. He appears in visions to the various characters, even his dog, and one by one they are guided to perform acts that set conditions right. Eventually Flora confesses that she is the reason Desborough was murdered. When Desborough's wife recognizes him, she forgives him, and he is able to depart the earth.
- While living in Constantinople, the wife of Sir Archibald Falkland is forced to co-exist with his mistress, Lady Edith. Falkland plots to frame his wife for adultery, thereby forcing her to consent to a divorce, by placing her in a compromising situation with Prince Cerniwicz. However, an old flam of Lady Falkland's, Colonel Loring, comes to her defense.
- After his wife/model dies of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to her.
- Edmund Kean, the nineteenth century English tragedian, saves a young woman from a fortune-hunting adventurer. He also saves a nobleman's wife from being led astray by the Prince of Wales. When Kean publicly denounces the Prince from the stage, he is exiled to America. The young girl he rescued becomes his wife and sails with him.
- Cherry O'Day is the daughter of Terence O'Day, who runs the Paper Lantern Café in Shanghai. She practices her father's philosophy to "play with men to her heart's content but always keep them at arm's length." Cherry has many suitors. She promises to marry a sailor named Donald MacGregor. But when he returns from the sea, he discovers Cherry's father has died. Cherry has married a rich man named William Blaine. A bank clerk named Harvel Allen tries to win Cherry's favor, but he is caught stealing bonds. Then Gordon Deane, a traveling novelist, meets Cherry but is the least interested of her suitors. Deane decides to take charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island, and brings MacGregor and Allen with him. Cherry gets a divorce and seeks Deane on the island. MacGregor and Allen engage in a fight at the top of the lighthouse, and both men plummet to their deaths. Cherry finds happiness with Deane.
- Robert Moore is general manager of the firm run by John Gibson. After Gibson makes several visits to Moore's home, unfounded rumors begin of a relationship between Gibson and Moore's wife. Moore is discovered with a revolver in his hand, standing over Gibson's dead body. In fact, the murder was committed by Moore's best friend, but Moore is convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His wife remarries, and her second husband proves to be a brute. The real murderer eventually confesses and Moore is set free. He visits his former wife and arrives just as her husband attacks her. In a struggle, Moore shoots him in self-defense, and is then reunited with his family.
- Young Victor Jones of America is discovered to be an exact lookalike for England's Earl of Rochester, a circumstance which results in Jones deciding to replace the Earl after an unfortunate accident.
- Elga Pulaski and her brother Ossip live in Warsaw. They belong to a secret society whose goal is to liberate Poland and Russia from the Romanoffs. Elga is loved by Baron Jan Slozek. But Slozek is a spy who has Ossip and other members of the society arrested. When Slozek is slain, Ossip is the key suspect. He escapes to America with his sister. There, Elga meets Norman Hutchinson, and marries him without telling him her past. When Hutchinson learns the truth, he leaves Elga. Eventually, when Elga appeals to him, he sees the light.
- When Mrs. Rolles (Farrington) insists that she will not have Austin Bevans (Reid) as a son-in-law, he insists that she will. But when his aunt dies and leaves Austin a girl's boarding school in her will, Austin gives up his suit of Susie Rolles (Bains) and decides to run the school.
- Lassiter, Jane Withersteen, and the young orphan Fay Larkin were imprisoned in a valley years ago, and now live like primitive people. A relative of Lassiter's named John Shefford goes in search of them. Before he can find them, a Mormon elder named Waggoner is able to enter the valley, where he finds the trio. He kidnaps Fay, now a young woman, and brings her to a desolate area where she is kept with other women. When United States marshals raid the Mormon settlement, they bring charges of polygamy against all the women living there. Shefford sees Fay during her trial and falls in love with her. He rescues her and rides away with her, and then attempts to rescue Lassiter and Jane. When Waggoner pursues, he is killed by an Indian. Waggoner's followers continue the pursuit. Shefford, Fay, and the others are saved when marshals, warned by the Indian, arrive.
- Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
- Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
- An attractive young woman thrusts an attorney into wild adventures.
- Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a wealthy man, and is spoiled by him. But then the war comes and she goes overseas as a nurse. She returns to her former life as a changed woman. She decides to help out returning soldiers who are looking for jobs. Her father promises to give her $10,000 if she can raise the same amount on her own. To win the help of the returning soldiers, she poses as a "slavey" at Mrs. Murphy's boarding house, where many of them are staying. She gains their trust, then puts on a circus, in which she rides a horse bareback and does stunts. The circus raises more than $10,000, so her father honors his part of the bargain. With the additional money, she sets up an office and devotes her energies to finding jobs for the servicemen.
- Sergeant O'Malley, a member of the Northwest Mounted Police, is assigned to bring in the murderer of a saloon keeper named La Grange. Disguised as a cowboy, O'Malley attends a rodeo, where he believes a group of outlaws, including the alleged killer, are performing. He follows them to their stronghold in the mountains, then robs a bank in order to ingratiate himself into the gang. After making off with $5000, he is chased by a posse, but he manages to elude them, and then is admitted into the gang. O'Malley falls for Rose Lanier, who cooks for the gang. Rose's brother, Bud, is the alleged killer. When the leader of the gang, Red Jaeger, makes unwanted advances towards Rose, O'Malley thrashes him. Jaeger decides to betray the gang, and secretly rides to the sheriff's office. There, he learns that the stolen bank money has been returned, and that O'Malley is working undercover. Jaeger shows the evidence to the gang, and they tie O'Malley to a tree. He is placed under guard, and is set to be hanged at daybreak. Rose secretly gives O'Malley a knife, enabling him to escape, along with her and her brother. While the three are on the run, O'Malley learns that Bud killed La Grange because the saloon keeper had wronged Rose. Later, O'Malley leaves a note telling Rose and Lanier who he really is. He also informs then he is headed back to his post to resign, but will return for Rose if she is willing to wait for him.
- Phoebe Morrison, a wealthy young lady, is shown a photograph of handsome Squire Elton by her father. Since Elton is a partner in her father's oil business, the girl goes west to meet him. The two fall in love, but Phoebe decides her prospective husband needs more polish comparable to the men she knew in the east. So Elton goes on a tour of Europe, returns a refined gentleman, and marries Phoebe. But now Phoebe feels he has lost some of his charm. Then she thinks he is having a fling with her cousin Sophia. So she decides the best solution is for Elton to return to his original environment out west. She feigns ill health, and persuades him to move, and gradually he becomes the man she fell in love with. Then Elton confesses that he had been acting the part of an Eastern gentleman to teach Phoebe a lesson.
- A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
- Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He really loves Marcia, a dancer, and Barbara vamps Keith, an architect. Keith's good sense prevails, and he marries Marcia and helps Larry make a man of himself. Barbara, after an unsuccessful attempt at an acting career, returns and asks forgiveness.
- "Katy" Didd is in love with Alice, but her guardian wishes her to marry Tetlow, an influential man in town. Katy knows Alice will be unhappy with Tetlow, and decides to win her by force. While Alice is on her way to meet Tetlow for the wedding, Katy holds up the stage and kidnaps her. Tetlow suspects Katy and has him captured and taken to the desert to die. Katy escapes, and returns to town just in time to stop the wedding ceremony. He gallops into the church and carries Alice off with him.
- Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr. Martin, is cared for by Connors' wife, who falls in love with him. When Connors returns to the shack after striking it rich, he finds his wife and Martin together. After a fight, Connors releases Martin, but Martin shoots Connors and rolls his body off a cliff. He covers the body with leaves. Mrs. Connors, believing her husband is dead, goes off with Martin. Meanwhile, Connors, who is alive but badly wounded, is rescued by his dog. A few years pass and Connors has become a drunkard, wanting revenge against Martin. His former wife, who has been mistreated by Martin, now has a daughter. The child is accidentally dropped from a covered wagon driven by Martin, and recovered by Connors. He takes her to his shack, where she makes him forget his anger. When the child gets sick, Connors seeks a doctor and comes face to face with Martin.
- An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates things by falling in love with the sheik, unaware of his true identity.
- A young man working in a steel mill falls in love with an old Scotsman's daughter. The young man saves the life of the steel-mill owner and is adopted by him. But then he learns that the Scotsman and the mill owner are mortal enemies.
- A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
- After eluding authorities, Jaca Javalie goes to the home of wealthy Theodore Banning, where he professes to be a man of magic who learned his skills in India. He demonstrates his ability by bringing peace to the Banning home. In actuality, he plans to rob Banning's private vault. When he tries to commit the robbery, he is stopped by a guest who promises to say nothing in exchange for a portion of the loot. Javalie makes another attempt to break into the vault, but the same power that he had exerted over the Banning family compels him to stop. He confesses what he had planned to do and wins the hand of Banning's daughter Nanette.
- Stephen Orry is an Icelandic vagabond. Rachel, the daughter of the governor of the province, is attracted to him. Her father, who is against the relationship, drives her from home, and she marries Orry. But she cannot make a man out of Orry, who runs off to sea. Rachel supports herself and her son Jason, while Orry begins a new life on the Isle of Man. He marries Liza Killey and they have a son named Sunlocks. When Liza mistreats Sunlocks, Orry takes him away to the governor of the Isle for safekeeping. After Rachel dies, Jason sets out for revenge against his father. His half-brother Sunlocks sets out for Iceland to find Rachel and Jason to make reparations, while Jason comes to the Isle of Man. While there, Jason saves his father from drowning, and after his father dies from a natural death, he turns his desire for revenge against Sunlocks. But when Sunlocks becomes a political prisoner, Jason forgoes his revenge and dies in place of Sunlocks.
- A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.
- John Haynes, known as "Hardwood," is a boss lumberjack in the great Northwest woods. During a Saturday-night revel with his pals, he receives a letter informing him he has inherited a modest shop in New Orleans from his late uncle. He has no idea what that means, but he travels to New Orleans to take over his new business, and is dismayed to learns he is now the proprietor of a shop that sells petticoats.
- A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
- A country boy comes to the big city and falls in love with a showgirl, but turns his back on her when she decides to give up the glamorous life for the homespun existence of a homemaker.
- Hiram Scudder is a blind cobbler, with a son named Tommy. Hiram passes the time listening for the footfalls of passersby, correctly identifying who they are. His son Tommy is in love with Peggy Hawthorne, the village belle. Peggy tells Tommy he must get a job and make a name for himself before she will marry him. Tommy becomes jealous of Alec Campbell, who shows interest in Peggy. Campbell, an engineer, lives above the shop where Tommy's father works. Tommy has a fight with Campbell in the latter's room. Hiram hears the struggle, and goes upstairs, but is tossed back down to the floor of his shop, where he breaks his leg. During the struggle, a lamp is overturned, the room catches on fire, and one man is killed. The survivor creeps downstairs, carrying a satchel of money. Hiram grabs the man's hand, but is beaten off by a wrench. The man throws the money behind a wall and runs out. The body found in the fire is charred beyond recognition, but since Campbell's clothes and watch are found, the body is assumed to be his. Tommy is then wanted for murder. Hiram, whom the villagers now think is insane, listens for footfalls night and day, certain the killer will return for the money. One night, Hiram hears familiar footsteps and struggles with the intruder, choking him. The intruder is revealed to be Campbell. Tommy is posthumously cleared of murder.
- A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
- Don Caesar de Bazan, a reckless nobleman, falls for Maritana, a gypsy dancing girl. When Maritana is insulted by a drunk, Don Caesar wins her love by coming to her rescue. The two go to Madrid, where the girl is summoned to dance before the Queen. Maritana also attracts the attention of King Charles. Don Jose, the prime minister, who secretly loves the Queen, plots to get Maritana for the King. To do this, he schemes to have Maritana marry a nobleman so she can enter the King's court. Don Jose chooses Don Caesar, who has been imprisoned and sentenced to death for dueling during Holy Week. Don Caesar agrees to marry the woman selected by Don Jose. After the ceremony, his wife believes he has been pardoned, but Don Caesar is sent to a firing squad. He is saved by a youth who has removed the bullets from the rifles. Eventually, Don Caesar wins the King's approval, and he is made prime minister.
- An engineer in New York is unhappily married to a politically ambitious wife. When their son dies due to his wife's neglect, he deserts her and goes to South America to help build a bridge. But he loses interest in life, starts drinking, and loses his job. As he is about to hit rock bottom, he meets a cabaret dancer named Carita who helps him recover. He falls in love with her. When his wife loses her senatorial race, she goes to South America to reunite with him. Carita mistakenly believes that he still loves his wife, and decides to kill herself.
- Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry wealthy Robert Stafford although she doesn't love him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him. Robert hopes for her return and quits drinking. But pride and misunderstanding block the way for renewed romance.
- Barney Kemper works hard on a farm so his younger brother Dick can go to college. However, Dick squanders Barney's money. Margaret Danford, daughter of the village doctor, loves Barney from afar and tries to educate him. A girlfriend of Margaret's comes for a visit and steals Barney's heart. The young girl turns to Dick, and Barney discovers them together. Embittered, Barney goes west to work in a lumber camp. But Dick reforms, and becomes a minister, and is assigned to the lumber camp. Margaret goes along to start a hospital. Tex Daly, leader of the lumbermen, resent Dick and try to frame him with a saloon girl. When Dick is shot by Tex, Barney appears and helps his wounded brother by taking charge of the church. Dick dies, and Barney kills Tex. Barney and Margaret are united.
- Actress Jane Carleson has three admirers: Henry Strong (a millionaire), Hamilton Ross (a chemist), and Murray Campbell (a district attorney). When Jane weds Campbell, Ross writes an anonymous letter to Campbell, warning him that Strong is after his wife. Ross smears the flap of the envelope with poison. However, Strong is the one who opens the envelope, and dies from the poison. Since Campbell and Strong had quarreled just before the arrival of the letter, Campbell is convicted of the murder. Jane must expose the true murderer and save her husband.