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- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub writes a scenario and goes to the local theater to see the picture. After a good deal of trouble he and his wife succeed in getting into the house, but are unable to find two seats together. The center aisle is built very steep, and the ushers are dressed like Alpine climbers. This provides a great deal of action for those who must climb up, and those who slide into their seats. Then comes the film. The main title tells that the picture is made by the "Shameless Film Co." As Snub's seat is up against the screen he sees the picture greatly distorted. The picture shown on the screen satires the current melodrama, and will bring a laugh in itself. The comedy ends in a free-for-all fight.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniCharles StevensonThe owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniSnub is employed in an office. The boss is to dine with him and wants a little "nip." Snub goes home and proceeds to drop the precious bottle. Then begins a wild chase for another one, which, when procured, meets with like disaster. Wifey comes to the rescue, and all is hunky dory with Snub guarding the valuable liquid with a shot gun when word comes that the boss cannot come.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniA couple is seeking a divorce. In court, the wife tells her story of how the husband comes home intoxicated and while she is working over the washtub, treats her brutally. The husband then tells his side, which is exactly opposite, how he came home tired, found nothing to eat, piles of dirty dishes, etc., and men hidden under tables and in closets. The matter is finally settled, when the landlady is called to the stand and tells the truth about the matter, which ends in a reconciliation.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungWomen rule the world in this vision of the future. Men wearing frills and lace, women in charge is the least of the zany future envisioned in this film, sure to be banned in Tennessee.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniJohn M. O'BrienThe governor's (Snub) life is in constant jeopardy because of the bomb throwers who use every conceivable means to get him.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungStage-door-Johnnie Snub worships Marie. She's the star of a second rate stage show, a civil war melodrama. When they come up an actor short, Snub is pressed into service to play the part of a Confederate General.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniSnub is the chief engineer of a peanut and fruit stand. Bad boys steal his peanuts and the cop on the beat helps himself to his fruit. He is facing ruination when he decides to undertake a plan of action. Securing a policeman's uniform, he raids his competitor's stand. Everything is doing well when he meets the real cop and a chase follows. Reckless Rosie, dashing down the road, smashes into Snub's peanut wagon and splinters it to bits. She helps him to escape from the cop and leads him to the "Mission House"." Here a good deal of comedy business follows and in the end Snub shows his credentials and arrests the cop; he is the prohibition officer of the district.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested. He attempts several ideas to locate behind the bars but fails miserably because his actions are accepted as heroic feats. Then by accident he is arrested and confined in the same cell with a notorious jewel robber. The governor visits the prison on a tour of inspection. He looks over the convicts and approaching one quite closely is brushed aside. Whereupon the crook says, "Pardon me." The governor, not to be outdone in politeness, replies, "Certainly." So the prisoner ceases work and runs for dear life.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub, as a dog catcher operating without a net, uses a fishing pole and a hunk of liver as bait. Marie's father buys a new dog, but it runs away straight to the noble Nimrod. Snub takes the animal back home and incidentally starts a mild flirtation. Marie enters her pet in the dog show, but a villain happens along and clips his hair. Snub is ingenious enough to hoodwink the judges. He places the dog through Marie's muff and the pet wins the prize.
- DirectorRalph CederCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniValuable jewels have been stolen by the owner of the paper where Snub works. Snub recovers the jewels, gets the reward and a scoop on the story.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub goes to visit his bride's people. Marie has four husky brothers who shoe horses, spit fire, and play ball with an anvil. They take Snub right into their family and treat him like a brother; but the anvil that they throw nearly kills him. A good laugh is produced when Snub is sent flying and you see him cross the state lines of Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. His last stop is the Pacific Ocean. He manages to return, however, and again joins his four brothers in the anvil chorus.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniSnub has a lot of fun trying to get rid of his job. He does everything he can to torment his boss but still is not fired. At length he knocks him down and serves notice upon him. But just as he does this along comes a telegram which tells about a large sum of money that Snub is to inherit provided he still has his job.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungThe scene is set in the time designated by the title, with the performers costumed appropriately in animal skins and existing under contemporary living conditions with just enough modern appurtenances to make it laughably absurd.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniErnest MorrisonThe monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to swing upon the chandeliers and walk up the sides of the buildings. He wakes up just before the operation is performed and takes the chance to beat it out of the hospital. The horror of the dream gives him more pep than monkey glands.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniSnub takes a job as handy man to one of the pests who is ever saying - "this is going to hurt a little" - and his work is pulling teeth. A heavy weight is attached to pulleys and the forceps hooked onto a cord. Thus the tooth is pulled automatically. Naturally such effective treatment spoils the business of a rival dentist. So the latter plots to discredit his colleague. His scheme is to use tooth cement to keep the teeth firm and foil the pulley machine. Snub gets a real inspiration, by attaching the rope to a trolley car and then to the door knob and as the police enter the tooth is extracted.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniGeorge RoweSnub, securing a wishing carpet, is carried through the air to a mythical land where he gets into all sorts of scrapes and is glad to get back home.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniWilliam GillespieSnub and Marie purchase a house guaranteed to be on a dry spot, but which proves to be when it rains a real floating home.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniMark JonesMarie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniEddie BakerEddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniEddie BakerA visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniGeorge RoweLooking back on his younger days, Snub recounts how he outwitted his rival for Marie's affections. In the present day he gets back at his rival, who is now suffering from gout.
- DirectorRalph CederStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniGeorge RoweNewlyweds have a baby wished on them as a wedding present. Someone steals the baby along with all of the furniture and the chase to recover the little tot when its mother demands its return begins.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungAn old man, with many branches to his family tree, attempts to make the quarrelsome crew live in harmony by promising them his money if they will all build houses on the same plot of ground and live peacefully for one year. Not having room on the lot, one family takes to the air, hitching its home to a balloon. This creates a disturbing element by reason of the things that fall overboard. But when the year is up, and there has been a reasonable amount of peace, the old man starts to divide his fortune, but is mistaken by all the heirs except one for a "faker," and the lucky one is rewarded with the entire estate.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub is the pilot of a ferry boat who has not renewed his license since 1891 and must pay up or lose his boat.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniSnub in a free-for-all fishing contest, with everybody, including the fish, working against the hero, who finally triumphs.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniNoah YoungSnub, the chauffeur of a suddenly prosperous family, beats the butler to the hand of the pretty heiress. Then Snub's family shows up.
- DirectorFred JackmanW.S. Van DykeStarsRuth RolandEarl MetcalfeHarry GirardTwo factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.
- DirectorRay GreyStarsErnest MorrisonJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstA loan shark demands money from a girl's father who seeks to get the required amount by having the girl entered in a beauty contest.
- DirectorRay GreyStarsErnest MorrisonJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstWhen a robber enters the bank and says, "Hands Up," to the cashier, the latter obeys, but at the same time he presses a pedal with his foot releasing a trap door and dropping the crook through the floor into the police station below. Here he finds himself before the sergeant's desk. His trial is brief for the sergeant gives him a crack on the head, and also presses a pedal dropping the criminal into a cell below. The River Gang swear revenge upon the bank and lay a deep plot. In the meantime the son of the president finds a map indicating a buried treasure. He starts digging and tunnels under the bank and into the vault where he discovers gold. Father and son not only discover that they have dug into their own vault, but also find the vault filled with members of the River Gang.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsErnest MorrisonJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstAn heiress doubles as a maid and a janitor is determined to look like a gentleman. A grand ball takes place and the rich girl refuses to wed the aristocrat until she discovers that he is really the porter.
- DirectorNicholas T. BarrowsStarsErnest MorrisonGeorge RoweEthel BroadhurstThe tribulations of a group of adventurers and castaways when they arrive on a cannibal island.
- DirectorRay GreyStarsJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstErnest MorrisonA young man and his pal get caught up in a gambling craze that's sweeping the area.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisAnna TownsendA meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- DirectorNicholas T. BarrowsStarsEddie BolandSammy BrooksTiny WardWhen a conservative old lady and a wickedly pretty young miss come into court to settled responsibility for a traffic accident, justice bows before beauty and youth wins the verdict. Even His Honor is a victim and shows his interest in the young and successful litigant by making an appointment to meet her after the close of court.
- DirectorNicholas T. BarrowsStarsEddie BolandEthel BroadhurstHarold AustinSix attractive girls vow to have nothing to do with men. To escape them they charter a yacht. Of course a mere man is rescued and all of the girls secretly try to win his favor, but they overwhelm him and he prefers to return to his raft and take the chance of rescue.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerThe girl of very superstitious Paul insists on getting married on Friday the 13th. His rival tries to prevent the marriage at all cost.
- DirectorRobert EddyStarsEddie BolandEthel BroadhurstMark JonesA gruesome theme deals with the various unsuccessful efforts of a man who attempts to commit suicide. In this he is assisted by the hero, whose death is necessary in order that the hero may win the girl. The various attempts are unsuccessful, however, and there is a comedy climax.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames Parrott
- DirectorFred JackmanStarsRuth RolandBruce GordonVal PaulA young woman is heir to vast timber lands which the timber trust seeks to secure. She is opposed by a cousin who seeks to prevent her from marrying before she is twenty-one, as under the terms of her father's will he will then inherit the property. In her fight against these odds she is assisted by a lumber foreman who falls in love with her.
- DirectorRay GreyStarsJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstSammy BrooksThe comedy revolves about a summer hotel where the proprietor expects a Prince from India. The Prince appears, and proves to be first-rate second-story man. Then the real Prince arrives and the uproarious comedy moments commence, leading to the bearding of the impostor.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerPaul is about to be married but loses his clothes.
- DirectorRobert P. KerrStarsJames ParrottEthel BroadhurstMark JonesAn escaped convict sets loose a box of bees and turns them upon an old fashioned camp meeting of colored folks. Prison guards pursue the convict and discover his disguise.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerJitney bus drivers are stealing business from the streetcar franchise, and work to sabotage the streetcar owner. The streetcar driver and company owner's daughter work together to save the business from ruin.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerAfter many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonPaul is a stay-out-at-night hubby and in order to explain his delay he invents a lovely story about freight yard rough-necks and how he was robbed, gagged and bound to the tracks with the Overland Limited dashing towards him. He was saved by an earthquake which shook the ground and threw the locomotive off the tracks. Does the mother-in-law believe the story? Not a bit of it.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerPaul is trying to elope with a girl whose father offers vigorous opposition. A rival suitor, who is a giant in stature, is also an impediment in the pathway of the swain and "his girl," but opposition to the runaway is finally overcome when the girl in the case sets fire to the house in which she is held captive and in the ensuing complication of events escapes with her Romeo.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonThe fun occurs in and around a garage which is used by a young married couple as their home.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerThe hero rescues an heiress from drowning, but has a hard time letting her know about it. Finally he starts to elope with her, but father has other views. All sorts of complications ensue and finally father and the other suitor are shanghaied as a crew for the hero's yacht.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsJackie CondonMickey DanielsJack DavisMrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.
- DirectorCharley ChaseJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonCharles AmadorPaul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonWith a radio-equipped camel, a young American invades a desert encampment and finally gallops away with the Sheik's favorite wife.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonHapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonPaul is very timid and is reproached by his girl for his "shyness" as she terms it. He is finally goaded into a fight with "Poison Fist O'Flanagan," a cross-eyed bantamweight, and to the surprise of himself and his loved one, knocks out the champion.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsPeggy CartwrightJackie CondonErnest MorrisonThe gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerOur hero becomes a member of the police force. A sudden alarm at the station house calls out the reserves to subdue a riotous member of the tenement house section and only when said riotous member has demolished nearly all of the reserves, Paul our hero, appears on the scene and when the pugnacious battler spills and strikes his head on the sidewalk, Paul takes advantage of his unconscious moment and places him under arrest. Shortly after, a girl in tears approaches our hero and tells him that her father had just been arrested and she desires to get his release. Father is released on BAIL and Paul accepting the young lady's invitation goes to the house where, to his surprise, her father turns out to be the man who he had arrested. Father deeply resentful, makes it quite lively for the young man, and after ducking in and out of closets, tables and eventually sliding down a fire escape, the last we see of our hero he is headed south and rapidly becoming a dim spot on the horizon.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonWally HowePaul and Jobyna are newlyweds and Paul's father-in-law rents them a house. During a storm some nearby campers are wrecked and wrapping their tent about them they seek shelter in the nearest house which belongs to the newlyweds. The white-draped figures are taken for "spooks" creating an opportunity for the usual gags.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonGeorge RowePaul slaps golf balls around to the damage of everything and everybody in sight, both on the links and in his home.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerPaul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanFred C. NewmeyerStarsAnna Mae BilsonJackie CondonMickey DanielsAn unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonPaul in a laughable adventure with the "South Sea Island Whooplesnips." A mutiny, a romance and several other interesting things happen to the hero.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerPaul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is continually elbowed aside by the huskier farmhands, until he gives up in disgust. But a last attempt to understand the intricacies of the tractor results in his demolishing the house, and the farmer's daughter aids his escape.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsPeggy CartwrightJackie CondonAllen 'Farina' HoskinsThe Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerPaul's first car arrives "knocked down," and his first thought is to assemble it and outstrip a rival in taking the prettiest girl in town for a ride. She announces that she will go out with the first to reach her house. The competition between the two drivers is keen until a maneuver by Paul outwits the rival and captures the girl.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisJohn T. PrinceCountry doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsJackie CondonMickey DanielsJack DavisThe Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonEddie BakerAfter learning to be a cowboy by reading a dime novel, Paul goes West and is made sheriff of a town.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonAt a smart "tea shop," Paul is a sort of soda-clerk-manager. His position becomes embarrassing due to the fact that the pretty girl, whom he would impress, happens to be a witness to his wild attempts to maintain proper dignity.
- DirectorJames D. DavisStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonPaul is the hired-man who habitually holds fast to his money, but is induced to try his hand at "the shell game," while at the County Fair.
- DirectorGeorge JeskeStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonThere are two heir's to a property left by a deceased uncle, who decided to leave his paying business, a garage, to one (Paul Parrott) and a run-down, closed-down blacksmith shop to Paul's ungrateful and overbearing brother. Through error on part of their attorney, however, the inheritances are temporarily switched, making Paul heir to the blacksmith shop. His brother lords it over him and almost succeeds in annexing his girl, but in the end it is proved that Paul is rightful heir to the paying proposition.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsWill RogersIrene RichNick CogleyWill appears as a tramp who hears a street minister preach on the power of faith. Chance leads him to a place in the desert where he finds a baby. He adopts it and then finds work is not so distasteful after all. He marries to get a "mother" for the baby, and then the child's father returns. Finding how much the couple love the child, who is now four years old, the real father departs and happiness again reigns.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonWilliam GillespiePaul is a new recruit to the town's fire department which is doing well. But the money used for its upkeep is needed for a new pool room and the town decides to fire the fire department. Thereupon the hotel landlord plots to burn his hotel for the insurance money but his daughter calls the police which arrives with the one-man fire department as the flames burst forth.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsJackie CondonMickey DanielsJack DavisThe gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonRichard WayneStuart HolmesSocialite New Yorker James Berkeley and college chum Allan Franklin are rivals for the hand of beautiful Lois Miller. Berkeley marries her, and fifteen years later, he keeps his wife luxuriously attired as a "trademark" to further his business opportunities, although he has not realized his ambition to become wealthy. Allan, now an engineer, visits the Berkeleys and reveals that he has obtained a large tract of oil land from the Mexican government. Hoping to profit from Allan's enterprise, James accompanies him back to Mexico, and brings the reluctant Lois along to keep Allan interested. When Allan and Lois realize their love for each other, she denounces James for using her as a trophy wife. A Mexican bandit, who covets the American woman, leads his gang to capture Lois at a hacienda, and James is slain during the attack. Allan rescues her, and they escape Mexico by leaping on horseback from a precipice into the Rio Grande.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonDavid PowellHarrison FordA romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonRudolph ValentinoEdythe ChapmanA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonRobert CainConrad NagelLance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend. For the good of her son, Betty does not contest Lance's plea of just cause and self-defense. A jury agrees with Lance, and Betty's reputation is ruined. After the court takes away her son she travels to France, becomes friends with author John Helstan, but agrees with his father that she should break off the relationship for John's own good. John believes Betty to be a good woman, but he changes his mind when he witnesses her behavior at a party given by Count Radisloff. Meanwhile, Lance and his Aunt Agatha have had a change of heart. Aunt Agatha takes Lance, Jr., to France, and John hears the truth in time to rescue Betty from the count.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonAntonio MorenoJosef SwickardA horse-race brings together Kentuckian Natalie Chester and Argentinean Manuel La Tassa. At a party, Pedro De Grossa insults Natalie and Manuel challenges him to a duel. To assure his son's success, Carlos De Grossa hires Gomez to ambush Manuel. While Manuel is recuperating, Natalie discovers the perfidy. She bribes Gomez to expose the De Grossas, Pedro leaves the country, and Manuel finally accepts his duty to participate in his government with the help of Natalie, his new wife.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsLionel BarrymoreMarguerite MarshMargaret SeddonWhen New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of Boomerang Bill, another wanna-be gangster who wanted to be a big shot in the New York crime scene. It seems that Bill fell for a pretty young dance-hall girl, and went up against local gang boss Tony the Wop when he insulted her. Tony, who never forgot a slight, found a way to make things very, very tough for Boomerang Bill, in a way that he never saw coming.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsLeatrice JoyConrad NagelEdith RobertsThough betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom, leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsWill RogersLila LeeAlan HaleEk is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor Ezra Botts, a timid old pedant and researcher of psychic phenomena. Life fairly well kicks Professor Botts around as it does all timid souls, and he gets little love or respect. But during an experimental trance, he is able to leave his body behind and at that moment, Ek sees his chance and slips in, taking over the professor's body. The "new" professor is energetic, charismatic, and dynamic, and from the limbo in which he floats, the real professor fears that Ek is going to wear out the tired old body before he, Botts, can return to it. And just how is he supposed to get back into his body, anyway?
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsEthel ClaytonWarner BaxterCharles K. FrenchMildred Carr, an efficient and capable businesswoman, falls in love with Lewis Alden, a real estate broker who is inclined to be dictatorial and extravagant. Five years after their marriage, she has secretly saved $2,000 to purchase a home. Finding that he needs the money in order to save himself from financial embarrassment, she schemes to offer him the money through Harvey Beecher, a neighbor. Beecher's jealous wife reveals the secret negotiation between Harvey and Mildred, and when the option lapses Alden leaves home in a rage. Later he sends her an apology and a check for the amount. Mildred finds that the house she wanted has been sold--then is astonished to learn that the owner is Alden, who has paid his debts and bought the house for his wife; she accepts his forgiveness and they are reunited.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsDorothy DaltonRudolph ValentinoCharles BrinleyA milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsWallace ReidLois WilsonLionel BelmoreYoung William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsEthel ClaytonCharles MeredithMary Jane IrvingDr. Robert Harvey, under the stress of financial difficulties, yields to the charms of Lola Forbes, who becomes enamored of him when he calls to attend her. Because he has neglected his wife, Margaret, and his daughter, rumors link Robert's name with Lola, and he soon obtains a divorce from Margaret and marries her, while Margaret consents to marry Webster, one of her former admirers. The child, Doris, who spends a half year with each parent, is resented by Webster, and Lola clearly prefers her Pekinese. When Lola beats the child and she is stricken with a serious illness, Harvey takes her to her mother; and realizing their mistakes, the couple are reunited.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsT. Roy BarnesLila LeeLois WilsonMr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of their daughter Margaret with bank clerk Arthur Haviland. Law student Dudley King, and rival suitor for Margaret, announces that the marriage-license clerk is on vacation and that the license obtained by the elopers is invalid; he wires the proprietor of the lodge where the couple plan to spend their honeymoon, and Arthur and his wife indignantly return home. Demanding an explanation from the assistant clerk, Arthur learns that all marriages processed in November for the past 30 years are void because the clerk had not then been sworn in, and in consequence many households dissolve. But the husbands do not relish their newly-gained freedom, and when the license clerk returns, he declares all the marriages legal. Arthur rescues his bride just as King is about to carry her off, and the matrimonial routine begins.
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsJack HoltBebe DanielsCharles OgleSon of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner. Later, Bob is suspected of being the feared "Black Rustler," but he learns that Hannon is indeed the guilty party and the man who killed his father. Bob decides to leave; but he meets Hannon, who has been wounded, and exchanges places with him. Hannon confesses to Val and dies in her arms; she rides to rescue Bob just as he is about to be hanged.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsEthel ClaytonVernon SteeleZasu PittsAnne Woodstock, a singer, is engaged to district attorney Christopher Armstrong and is a patient of Dr. Kasimir, a Hindu hypnotist-physician, who presumably restores her voice. By a ruse, he lures Anne to his office and hypnotizes her; the next day, Anne, who remembers nothing of the occurrence, leaves for Europe and Kasimir is found murdered in his office. His attendant, Jennie Dunn, who possesses money taken from the safe, is accused of the crime. "Smith," another member of Kasimir's household, identifies a pin found near the body and swears it was worn by Jennie. Anne, returning from her trip, remembers that she was present on the fatal night and insists on her guilt. Jennie then confesses, but Smith explains that she killed Kasimir in a jealous rage.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsDorothy DaltonMilton SillsE.J. RatcliffeIris Champneys, forced into a marriage of convenience with the Earl of Lemister, attempts to recover some compromising letters for her sister Muriel, who has been seduced by a social parasite. Iris is thus caught by Lemister in a delicate situation, and he demands a divorce. Clement Gaunt, formerly employed by Lemister and in love with Iris, has become a ranch foreman in South Africa. He becomes entangled with Hannah, the rancher's wife, who shoots her husband, then places the blame on Clem when he refuses to run away with her. Seven years later, Gaunt--trying to escape the police--meets Iris, who is operating a tavern on the African caravan road. Iris, learning of his predicament, rides to Hannah Schriemann, telling her that Clem has been executed for her crime. When the police bring Clem to the house, Hannah--frightened by his "ghost"--confesses, and Iris and Clem find a way to happiness.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsMay McAvoyWalter McGrailPat MooreHilda O'Shaunnessey lives in a New York City tenement with her younger, invalid brother, Mickey, and relatives Mr. and Mrs. Brady. Because of Mickey's frail health, the boy spends most of his time on the roof, and Hilda works as a clerk in a department store toy department to raise enough money to send him to a sanitarium. Mickey befriends a little girl, Susan Gray, who lives with her single, artist father, Emery Gray, in a bungalow on the adjoining roof; when Emery meets Hilda, he is impressed by her devotion to her brother. As Christmas season approaches, Hilda takes an extra job in the toy department dressing up as animated dolls. Soon she catches the attention of the store's leering proprietor, Gregory Stearns, who makes several advances toward the young beauty, and asks what gift she would like for Christmas. Knowing what the older, wealthy man has in store for her, and seeing a way out of her troubles, Hilda asks for an expensive fur coat. When Stearns delivers the gift, Hilda pawns it to pay for Mickey's treatment at the sanitarium, then hurries to the roof to commit suicide before yielding to her employer's desires. However, Emery Gray prevents her from jumping, and exposes Stearns as the man who stole his wife. Emery asks for Hilda's hand in marriage, and Mickey is cured in the hospital.
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsJack HoltWade BotelerMabel Van BurenPhil Webster, alias "Slick Phil," the son of a minister, escapes from prison with his pal Red Barton and disguises himself as a minister. He accepts an invitation to become the parson of the mining town of Panamint, intent on using his position to rob the bank. He is welcomed by all the congregation except saloon owner Bud Deming and his daughter Salome. His activities as a fighting parson and the growing love of Salome cause him to reform, and when Red Barton carries out the planned robbery alone, Phil recovers the money and confesses his past to the congregation. The bishop arrives to investigate the new minister and discovers him to be his long-lost son. Phil returns to jail to serve out his sentence. Upon his release, he finds Salome and his father waiting for him.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsAlma RubensLew CodyJoe KingThe 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.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsWanda HawleyMilton SillsLouise DresserEnglishman Daniel Lane gets involved in the dynastic intrigues of an old desert sheik whose son and another Briton named Robert Barthampton plot against him. Lane's girlfriend Muriel visits him, determined to stop Lizette, whom she suspects is Lane's mistress. While there, the encampment is attacked by the plotters, and Barthampton is killed by Lane while threatening Muriel. Lizette is mortally wounded and dies after explaining she had no affair with Lane.
- DirectorPenrhyn StanlawsStarsBebe DanielsJames KirkwoodAnna Q. NilssonJohn Quelch, the owner of vast diamond mines, is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any woman will "sell her soul" for diamonds. He deals harshly with any employee caught stealing and has Lady Margot Cork watched while she is visiting Lorraine Temple. John and Margot fall in love, but she cancels their engagement when she learns of the "brutal" punishment of Jim Wingate for swallowing a diamond. John sees Lorraine's weakness and tempts her with a fortune in gems. She makes advances, but John repulses her with the explanation that he had intended only to show her the error of her ways. Wingate dynamites the mine and the mansion; Margot and Lorraine's husband arrive in time to hear Lorraine thank John for the lesson before she dies; Margot and John are reconciled. Conflicting synopses create doubt that Lorraine actually dies in the explosion.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsLeatrice JoyThomas MeighanLois WilsonThrill-seeking society girl Lydia causes a motorcycle policeman's death and is prosecuted by her fiancé Daniel, who describes in lurid detail the downfall of Rome. While she's in prison, she reforms and Daniel becomes a wasted alcoholic.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsTheodore RobertsGeorge FawcettT. Roy BarnesWhen Lem Holbrook steals some money from his father, Eph Holbrook, to give to Rose, Reuben Whitcomb is accused and jailed. There he meets Happy Jack, and they escape; but Reuben's father, Uncle Josh, is forced to mortgage his farm to Eph to cover the loss. Reuben's sweetheart, Ann, is disturbed by reports that he has gone to meet Rose, but Uncle Josh hears from Happy Jack that he has actually gone to China. Happy Jack goes to search for Reuben while Uncle Josh finds it harder and harder to meet his payments. Just as he is about to sell out, a violent storm levels all of the town except Uncle Josh's farm, prompting Lem to confess to the robbery. Reuben returns, and all are reconciled.
- DirectorCharles MaigneStarsMary Miles MinterTom MooreViora DanielJessica (Mary Miles Minter) becomes fed up with her husband Weston's (Robert Schable) womanizing and leaves him for a Wyoming ranch. Weston follows her, and violence and jealousy ensue.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsRudolph ValentinoWanda HawleyPat MooreA young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.