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- Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
- María Valdez, known as the Virgin of San Blas because of her charitable acts and great beauty, falls in love with David Kent, an American who is in Spain to investigate the death of his father years earlier. María and Kent set the date for a wedding, but Ricardo Ruiz, an excellent duelist and rake who desires to marry María to recoup his fortunes, informs the girl that her father was killed by Kent's father in the distant past. María then decides to avenge the family honor and immediately enters into a companionate marriage with Ricardo. Kent goes to María seeking an explanation for her sudden change of heart, and Ricardo finds them together. He challenges the American to a duel, instructing his valet to shoot Kent if he seems to be gaining the advantage. But in the course of the duel, Kent extinguishes the candles, and the valet inadvertently kills Ricardo. María and Kent are reconciled and make plans to be married.
- When he is jilted, Alan Remington, the son of a wealthy Washington politician, falls into a state of deep depression. On the advice of Professor Hollister, from whom he is purchasing a death ray, the elder Remington attempts to divert Alan by providing him with excitement. At this time, a gang of foreign agents, led by Darwin Kershaw, Remington's secretary, kidnap both the inventor and his daughter, Carolyn, and steal the death ray, but not before the resourceful girl has thrown the control key to the ray out of the window, where it lands in Alan's car. The conspirators attempt to regain the key, but they are mockingly foiled on several occasions by Alan, who thinks they are men hired by his father to jolt him out of his depression. Alan eventually realizes that the men are seriously trying to kill him, and he sets out to bring them to justice. Alan prevents the agents from destroying several naval gunboats, rescues the Hollisters, and rounds up the aliens, handing them over to the F. B. I.
- Alec Craig has a good position in a manufacturing company, however, is brought close to financial ruin by his wife and daughter, who live beyond their means and who have fallen prey to installment sharks. Grant Elliot, an aviator, loves Ruth and waits for the day when his invention will be a success so that they can marry. To delay the installment collector, Ruth illegally pawns a ring that is not yet paid for. She is tricked by Howard Steele, an agent of real estate speculators, into divulging information on the location of a valuable site on which the company has taken an option. The company blames Craig for the leak, and he is fired. The collector calls for the ring and finds that it has been pawned. Ruth, realizing she has been tricked, gets even with Steele by taking him up and making him stay up in an airplane past the time when the option expires. Craig's widowed sister and her son, Gene, redeem the ring and make Ruth and her mother promise never to fall prey to installment sharks again. Ruth's flight has proved the value of Grant's invention, and their future is assured.
- Disowned by her family for marrying beneath her class, Alice Larkin lives in a modest home with her husband, John, and their children. Meanwhile, wealthy Ethel Lewis is separated from her husband, Robert, because she refuses to have children. On Ethel's behalf, a lawyer offers Alice $50,000 in exchange for the adoption of her youngest child, Louise. After Alice reluctantly accepts, Ethel presents the child to Robert as their own. Alice visits the Lewis home frequently, rekindling Robert's long-dormant romantic feelings for her. John is consumed with jealousy and attempts to shoot Robert, but accidentally hits Louise. Alice then awakens to find that it was a horrible dream. She refuses the lawyer's offer just as her Aunt Martha enters with apologies and Christmas presents.
- Jimmie Wicherley, who is always late for everything, finds out that he will inherit his uncle's millions on the condition that, for a period of 3 months, he report to his uncle's lawyer promptly on time on a certain day each month. If Jimmie does not meet this condition, Saunders, another of his uncle's nephews, will inherit the fortune. Jimmie later has a fight with a truck driver named Johnson and knocks him to the ground, where he remains, out cold. Saunders then bribes Johnson to disappear, and Jimmie is arrested for his "murder." A friend springs Jimmie from jail, and Jimmie captures Johnson and brings him before a judge. The case against Jimmie is dismissed, but he believes the fortune to be lost to him for not reporting to the lawyer while in jail. The lawyer, however, informs Jimmie that, being clearly the victim of circumstance, he will still inherit the fortune. Jimmie also wins the hand of the lawyer's ward, Susan.
- Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and sends his son, Robert Jr., to investigate. During his journey west, Robert meets Mary Hamilton, a stranded actress from a roadshow company of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Because Mary is still in costume as the character, "Little Eva," Robert mistakes her for a child and takes her with him to the ranch. He ultimately discovers the identity of the arms smugglers and, with the help of the Mexican Rurales, brings the gang to justice. Robert then realizes that Mary is not a child and wins her for his wife.
- Patsy is the akward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accomidating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists. He vows to teach her how to get the guy because "There is no reason for a girl to be hopelessly in love". During this hilarious process, he falls in love with her.
- Bruce Taylor arrives in the mountain town of Caliente with his dog (Rex), horse (Blackie), and an abandoned baby found by Rex in an automobile in the desert. The town has no foundling home, and Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself. Molly Markham offers to help and arouses the jealousy of her "suitor," Obediah Dillwater, who has Molly's grandfather under financial obligation. Obediah conspires to have Bruce arrested for kidnapping the baby, but Bruce escapes from jail with the aid of Rex and Blackie. He brings back the sheriff to prove his innocence and rescues Molly from a forced marriage to Obediah. Molly, Bruce, the baby, and Blackie and Rex, the "pals," all look forward to a happy life together.
- A chorus girl goes out on a date with a rich man, but later that night he is murdered. Although she didn't do it, she doesn't want to be suspected of the crime by the police, so she marries a wealthy but very ill man who believes he will soon die and wants to leave her all his money. Complications ensue.
- A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is traveling to the same place. He is kidnapped by some men who are misdirecting the mine shipments, and escapes in time to save the girl from death.
- Perry Whitman's wild escapades result in his being expelled from college, an event he celebrates by holding a wild party to which he invites the impoverished members of a theatrical troupe. He is disowned by his father and turned adrift with a $100 bill, which he loses. In trying to recover the money he saves a girl from becoming the victim of a matrimonial scheme; she eludes capture by kidnappers and marries him to save her fortune. Thus he wins his father's forgiveness.
- John Drake, a college athlete, starts for South America, where he has been promised a good job on the strength of his knowledge of the construction of safes and vaults. Aboard ship, he falls in love with Dolores Darcy, the daughter of a leading Latin American banker. Arriving in South America, John discovers that he has been made the dupe of criminals, who want him to open the vault in Señor Darcy's bank. John refuses, and his passport and wallet are stolen. In desperation, he signs up to fight an exhibition bout with Dynamite Díaz, the South American boxing champion. Isaac Belding, the leader of the criminals, has John kidnapped, forcing him to open the Darcy vault. John locks the gang in the vault, telling the police of his actions on the way to the bout. John beats Díaz and then captures Pierce, the banker's secretary, who is in league with Belding. John becomes the hero of the town, and Dolores declares her love for him.
- Chorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so she can pay back a theft her brother made from his employers. Her sweetheart, race-car driver Jimmie, learns about it and gives her a check for $2500, but the check is worthless unless he can win the Big Race that afternoon. He leads through every lap but blows a tire on the last lap and finishes fourth. It appears that Duane will soon be hugging sweet Mary, unless Jimmie can find a buyer for a race-car with a flat tire.
- A feud between the Powell and Blackwell families frustrates young lovers George and Nellie, but U. S. revenue agents end the dispute when the Powell clan has to escape arrest for moonshining.
- Dave Allen, secretary to James Pendroy, a wealthy banker, is accused of stealing bonds from his employer. Dave rounds up the thieves, who include one Josef Le Baron, a suitor of Pendroy's daughter. Dave marries the girl.
- Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.
- Reared by Montgomery Rogers as his own child, Emerie Rogers seeks to marry a titled Englishman, as instructed by Aunt Gertrude. On an ocean liner she meets Dick Clark and later turns to him when Rogers' death reveals her to be the daughter of servants and leaves her penniless. Emerie returns to her parents, the Pages, and her happiness is complete when Rogers' second will leaves the bulk of his estate to her.
- After dodging the speed cops, Barry Macklin arrives in his hometown of Hillsboro, where he is supposed to act as negotiator between his father, Andrew Macklin, and the mayor, Ezra Sprowl.
- After young Robert Wade throws a lavish party at the family ranch, his father, Dent Wade, sends Bob to California to mend his wastrel ways by making a success of the family's faltering ranch in California. During the trip, Bob and his friend, Chub Biggs, are robbed of their papers. Upon their arrival at the ranch, they discover that manager Russ DeLaine is not happy that they have come. Unknown to Bob and his father, DeLaine has been embezzling the ranch profits. When two of DeLaine's men become rough with Bob and Chub, DeLaine's daughter Margy intervenes, and soon she and Bob fall in love. Sometime later, after Bob finds his stolen papers in DeLaine's safe, he gives them to Chub to take to the local sheriff. Meanwhile, Blacky, one of DeLaine's henchmen, kidnaps Margy. Bob comes to her rescue, knocking Blacky into a pit during a fight. As he is dying, Blacky informs Bob that DeLaine is not Margy's real father. Later, Bob proves himself to his newly arrived father and the sheriff when he captures the escaping DeLaine.
- The usual ranger played by Maloney, and he has the usual old mother that he takes care of. The girl is the daughter of the impoverished and aged prospector, who still holds faith in a hole in the ground that he has dug. The bold, bad heavy is the general storekeeper, whose advances have been repulsed by the girl. To get even he first tries to blow up the old man and fasten a murder on the favored suitor, who is the ranger. There is the regulation stuff that has its horse features, its automobiles ... and the heroine making her way down a log chute to be in at the death. ... At the finish is the usual fade-out with the hero clasping the heroine to his manly bosom.
- A Royal Canadian Mounty is sent to mediate between the railroad men and the trappers and finds romance as well.
- Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
- Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her. Influenced by the atmosphere of revelry and gin on the high seas, they undergo a mock marriage ceremony performed by the ship's captain. Gloria is met at the dock by a suitor whom she still plans to marry, but Hale, insisting that he and Gloria are legitimately married, "kidnaps" her. He takes her to a mountain lodge, and her former fiancé hires a thug to kill him. The thug throws Hale into a raging river, from which he is rescued by an Indian guide. The thug is later killed when the car in which he is abducting Gloria crashes near the river. Hale and Gloria are reunited and decide to remain together, having learned to love each other.
- Roy Thomas tries to obtain evidence of smuggling to prevent his father from ending up in jail.
- Harry Willis returns to Helen Hendon discouraged by his failure to make a fortune in 6 months as he promised. Accepting a job that will pay him $10,000 for following instructions for a day, Harry soon finds himself in a series of adventures that include an imbroglio at a costume ball, a doctor's attempts to transplant a gorilla's brains into his head, and a brawl in a temple with some Chinese who want a small idol belonging to him. When he applies for a marriage license, Harry discovers that these incidents were created to test his capacity to become a movie star. He wins both Helen and a movie contract.
- After severely injuring his foreman in a fight, railroad worker Art Flanders flees to the desert, where he finds companionship with a dog named Rex, and later, with Black Beauty, a runaway horse. In their search for water, the three come upon a stream on the property of Lorraine Estes, owner of a mine claim that Jed Hawkins plans to usurp. While Art does the manual labor necessary to register the claim, Jed sends several of his men to dynamite the mine. They are thwarted by Art and Black Beauty, who also bring Jed to justice. One year later, Art and Lorraine are married with a baby, and Rex is father to a litter of puppies. Black Beauty is relegated to flirting with a hobby horse.
- Harvey, a cub reporter for the Morning Times, determines to recover the stolen Sacred Jewel of Buddha and scoop his competitors. He eventually discovers that the jewel is being held by a Chinese criminal tong--which is also holding hostage a beautiful young girl they have kidnapped as a hostage for the return of the jewel. Harvey sets out to take back both the jewel and the girl and get out of Chinatown alive.
- Grand Duke Alexis of Russia possesses two priceless emeralds, known as the Drums of Jeopardy, which allegedly exert a sinister power over their owner. They are willed to the duke's private secretary, Jerome Hawksley, who brings them to New York City and places them in the care of Banker Burrows. Bolshevik secret agent Gregor Karlov steals the jewels, kills Burrows, and kidnaps Jerome. The banker's daughter, Dorothy Burrows, assisted by Cutty, a member of the U.S. Secret Service, trail Karlov to a café and he is killed in the ensuing battle. Jerome recovers the jewels, and he marries Dorothy.
- Reggie Dillingham, a socialite who has squandered all but $70,000 of his million-dollar inheritance, is upbraided by his attorney, who bets the young man that he cannot support himself for six months. The attorney invests the remaining funds while Reggie sets out to find a job. He fails at his first few attempts, but when he photographs newspaper publisher and political boss Clint Taggart in a compromising situation, Reggie is hired as managing editor to maintain his silence. Immediately after taking charge, Reggie liberalizes the paper's editorial policy and falls in love with Clint's secretary, Mary Ryan. With Mary's help, Reggie discovers that their boss is involved in a bootlegging operation and uses Clint's own paper to expose him. Despite threats from his employer, Reggie refuses to resign, and employs the help of his loyal staff in resisting the bootlegger's thugs. Following Clint's arrest, Reggie is informed by his lawyer that his money has been doubled through a fortunate investment.
- Los Angeles cop goes undercover to catch a gang of murderous thieves.
- When his wife threatens to leave him because of his weakness for drink, John Stedman, finding her with another man, provides grounds for divorce in an open affair with Bobo, a dive entertainer. Later, Stedman is nursed back to health by Bobo. He returns from wartime service, marries her, and becomes governor, despite efforts of his former wife to win him back.
- Young heiress Helen Stuart is engaged to Monty Barnes, a restless young man. Since Helen is not yet 21, her estate is controlled by her guardian and uncle, Jack Peasley, who is not above using Helen's money for his own purposes. He takes a large chunk of her money to buy a block of railroad stock, that turns out to be worthless. Red Sweeney, who sold him the phony stock, assures him that if Helen marries before she turns 21, she'll never know the money's missing because the estate will revert to him, as her guardian. They force her to marry Monty, who is unaware of their scheme. Complications ensue.
- Pretending to be an outlaw, Marshal Dan Paterson joins the Carson gang. They're holding young Alice Allison captive, but when Dan tries to help her, Alice--not knowing who he is--doesn't trust him. Dan must gain her trust before he can rescue her and help destroy the gang.
- Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers. Carol reluctantly goes to dinner, and Ronsard is felled by a shot fired by an unknown intruder. Jimmy is later proven to have been in the vicinity at the time of the crime; he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in the electric chair. At the last minute, Jimmy is granted a temporary reprieve and given a new trial. Carol seeks to sacrifice herself for Jimmy by confessing that she committed the crime, but Ronsard's butler comes forward and informs the jury that he killed Ronsard in self-defense when Ronsard attacked him.
- Martin Lethbridge, president of a cattlemen's association, is called upon to investigate reports of a growing number of cattle raids. The prime suspects are the sheep ranchers, led by Gregg Randall, who in turn blame the cattlemen for increased casualties among their herds. Complications set in when Martin falls in love with Gregg's daughter, Dolly. However, Martin ultimately prevails against a secret society of dishonest cattlemen, exposes Blunt Vanier as the cause of conflict, and marries Dolly.
- Tommy O'Toole, copy boy on the news, hears the editor assign a police reporter to investigate a big jewelry robbery. Tommy asks for a chance at reporting and is told in jest he can have a job if he gets an interview with Toler, big political boss. He is thrown out of the Toler mansion by the butler, but scrapes acquaintance with Toler's youngest daughter and through her gets to see the father. The result is that he gets a job as reporter. Later he discovers the den of the Owls, the gang which stole the jewels. After a variety of thrilling adventures, during which he is wounded by a bullet, he rounds up the thieves, proves the police reporter to be a crook, gets back the loot, and is appointed star man on the paper.
- Pat Winthrop becomes engaged to Bob Shelby, a southerner who owns Kentucky Boy, a horse entered in the Nassau Handicap. To save her father from going to jail, Pat later breaks her engagement to Bob and accepts the proposal of Darrell Thornton, a smooth bounder insincere in racing as in love. Bob owes Thornton money, and, the night before the handicap, Thornton attaches Kentucky Boy. Bob steals the horse from his stall, and Bob's jockey rides him to victory. The purse saves Pat's father from jail and allows Bob to repay Thornton. Pat and Bob are married.
- Dr. James Leland, a wealthy and philanthropic young physician who inherited his father's fortune, spends much of his time entertaining children in New York City hospitals. His secretary and business manager, Hugh Powell, also inherited from his father, is secretly allied with dope peddler Buck Sanders. Assisting Hugh is Ruth Wheeler, Dr. Jim's unfaithful fiancée. When Dr. Jim catches his secretary stealing drugs, Hugh knocks him unconscious and, believing he is dead, dumps him in the river. Dr. Jim regains consciousness but loses his memory and develops a dual personality: first as "Jimmy," who assists Marion Nord in running her father's East Side medical clinic, then as "Black Flash," a mysterious bandit who supports the clinic by robbing wealthy gamblers. Hugh bribes Buck and his men to kidnap Marion, but Jimmy becomes aware of the plot. The police arrive to apprehend the culprits, but not before Jimmy is again knocked unconscious. Dr. Jim recovers his memory and returns to his rightful place in society with Marion by his side.
- Bob Beemis comes to New York City hoping to get his family entrenched in the high-society circuit, but only succeeds in making friends with one person in the social whirl, Archie de Rennsaler. They party with a couple of chorus girls and Bob falls in love with one of them. His uncle arrives from the West to check out his progress, finds there has been none, and closes out his bank account. What's a poor rich-boy do do? Well, he could enter his horse in a really, really Big Race.
- When a stranger named Smith arrives at Don Luis Alvarado's Southern California ranch looking for work, he is hired as a hand. Smith and the Don's beautiful daughter, Senorita Carmelita, become attracted to each other until one night, when Carmelita surprises Smith as he and a gang of thieves are stealing her family's jewels. Smith is arrested, along with the thieves, but his true identity is established in court when he reveals that he is Michael Cochrane, a U.S. marshal who infiltrated the gang of thieves to obtain a conviction. He brings the gang to justice and marries Carmelita.
- When District Attorney Johnson is seemingly unable to defeat a gang of drug smugglers, his assistant, Richard Jones, sets out on his own to investigate the lawbreakers. Richard soon learns that Bob Madison, the brother of the girl he loves, is a drug addict under the control of the gang. Bob joins the investigation, which leads them to an opium den in Chinatown owned by Mr. Greer, who is a rival for Bob's sister, Constance. Richard rescues her from one of Greer's drug dens, then discovers that the district attorney is taking bribes from the narcotics ring. As a reward for his outstanding work, Richard is appointed the new district attorney.
- While en route through the western prairies an attack is made upon a wagon train of settlers by a band of bandits. Rescue comes, but too late, for all but two of the wagon party, a young boy and girl, have been slain. They are adopted by Jim Holmes who led the rescue. Years pass and the young girl has grown to womanhood and Jim falls in love with her. She consents when he asks her to become his wife, although her heart is already given to the other survivor. Cattle rustlers raid the settlement and Jim is accused of being the gang leader. Later it develops that the leader is a woman and Jim is cleared. He realizes that the girl he loves has bestowed her affections on the young companion of her childhood and he goes away, leaving them his ranch and to each other.
- The citizens of a small western town are suspicious of mysterious stranger Dick Alwyn and wonder if he is an escaped bandit. Dick proves his mettle to Dolly, the daughter of a local ranch owner, by rescuing her from a possibly fatal accident, and the couple falls in love. Dick also displays his bravery by breaking a fierce wild horse, but is still threatened with being lynched by an irate mob of townsfolk, who believe that he is a bandit. Dick escapes and captures the real culprit. Upon his return to town, Dick reveals that he is actually a U.S. Deputy Marshal.
- Mary Rand, who wants the best both for herself and for her daughter, Henrietta, divorces her husband, a poor minister, and returns to her lucrative law practice. She soon falls in love with her law partner, Corbin, who in turn falls in love with Henrietta and romances both mother and daughter. Mary is elected district attorney; Corbin is found murdered, and Henrietta is blamed for the crime. John Rand, who was a lawyer before he became a minister, defends his daughter in court and proves that the gun found on her person was not the gun used to shoot Corbin. Henrietta is freed, and John and Mary are reconciled.