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- Winifred Bryce desires to be a novelist, she goes to live in New York's Greenwich Village after her father, a college professor, her fiancé, best-selling author Richard Haldane, and a publisher all reject her manuscript on Bohemian life because it does not seem realistic. In the Village, Winifred is befriended by futurist poetess Cleo Merrill and fourth-rate actor De Lancy Danforth who continually borrow her money. After Winifred elopes with De Lancy, who is scheming with Cleo to get her money, she discovers that Cleo has drawn all of her money from her bank account with the blank rent check Winifred left. During a quarrel with De Lancy, Cleo falls on his knife and dies. Winifred, whose forged check is found, is accused of murder and given the third degree. After Richard makes De Lancy confess, Winifred awakens to discover she has been dreaming. She marries Richard and her novel A Girl in Bohemia becomes a success.
- Little Marie Gordon is a "poor little rich girl" who grows very tired of her quiet, well-regulated life. She induces her father to take her with him to his big western ranch. Here she makes friends with Sambo, who rides a burro and wears cowboy's clothes. Baby Marie does likewise and they have great fun, particularly in teasing Sambo's colored mammy. Cattle stealing is going on upon the ranch owned by Mr. Gordon and it is Marie who finally gets hold of valuable information which leads to a round-up of the thieves.
- In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
- Bertrand Bancroft Boom, nicknamed 'Bing, Bang' Boom, through ill luck has hard time keeping a job. Settlement of a war claim of his grandfather's brings him $20,000 and he is persuaded to buy a country hotel. Visiting the place he finds he has been swindled, but with the aid of the editor of the village paper he succeeds in finally getting the best of the village boss who has cheated him. He also opens the hotel as a health resort and wins the hand of one of the town's belles after having experienced many difficulties, including a fight with a thug hired to beat him.
- The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
- Honey, a young entertainer on a carnival boat, is in love with Buck but Buck's father is against the romance.
- Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
- On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
- Brilliant young surgeon Anthony Halliday is forced to resign as chief of staff at a New York hospital when he is compelled to delay an appendectomy on the daughter of John Mitchell, wealthy supporter of the hospital, because of an emergency operation he must perform. The appendectomy is successful, but later complications cause the girl's death. Carol Andrews, his fiancée, regards him as a failure and leaves him. Halliday, suffering from amnesia brought on by the shocks, drifts to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he gets work in the steel mill. He only remembers who he is when he finds himself bandaging some injured workers. The mill doctor, Miller, asks him to become his assistant. Halliday remains at the mill under the name of John Davis. Because of many accidents at the mill, the smelter boss, Joe Kosovic is demoted. He becomes friendly with Halliday and invites him home for dinner, where he becomes attracted to Gerta, Joe school-teacher daughter. Accidents increase at the mill, and the mill's safety and personnel man, Brant, is ordered to investigate. Brant is actually in the pay of a rival firm trying to shut the mill. In school, Gerta hears Danny Brant talking about a game called "Steel-Mill" that has a point of dropping bricks on people's heads. He sullenly refuses to tell Gerta that his father's conversations with his conspirators inspired it. Gerta informs Halliday about it, and he begins to investigate Brant's activities.
- Ruth Holt is private secretary to Elwood Adams, a young architect. She is just the opposite to Adams' wife, who is indolent and a spendthrift, to which faults Adams, in his love for her, is blind. A lounge lizard with whom Mrs. Adams is friendly fans a jealous flame against Ruth. In a business crisis Ruth is introduced by Adams as his wife to Amos Martin, a banker. The lounge lizard informs Mrs. Adams and she denounces Ruth. A series of complicated events follow, terminating in Ruth reuniting the Adams couple and marrying the banker.
- Bob Gaunt is wrongfully convicted of murder and escapes from prison through the desert. He finds employment on a ranch owned by Yorke, who believes the young man is innocence and conceals his identity. Bob soon becomes ranch foreman, and falls in love with Yorke's daughter, Mary. Former prison physician and drug trafficker Dr. Otis Craydon, the son of a neighboring rancher, is also in love with Mary, and tries to eliminate his rival by effecting Bob's recapture. Bob makes a second escape but is exonerated when the real murderer confesses.
- The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.
- Wealthy shipowner James Bellamy decides to punish his carefree son, Bob, by forcing him to pay his $5,000 in debts by working as a $50-a-month supercargo. In a card game, Bob wins a runaway Persian cat, which is wearing a $30,000 diamond bracelet. Not realizing their value, he gives both cat and bracelet to Consuela Velasco, a girl he meets in Mexico. Back in San Francisco, he learns the true value of the bracelet and returns to Mexico just as Consuela is about to marry against her will. Bob carries off the girl, cat, and bracelet; gets the reward; and is reconciled with his father.
- A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
- 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 drama set in filmland, following the triumphs and heartaches of women who try to succeed in the movie industry.
- Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
- At a dinner party given by Webb Standish, Austin Crane, an author of detective fiction, is accused of writing improbable stories. Eve, Webb's daughter, shares Crane's belief that his stories can be duplicated in reality. Accordingly, Crane fabricates a case to prove that Standish is a profiteer, discovers that he is really guilty, but for Eve's sake hesitates to expose him. His editor insists that he continue the game, however; and entering Standish's home with a former crook, Spike Dawson, Crane obtains incriminating evidence.
- In Oklahoma, kindhearted outlaw Brick Willock rescues little Lahoma Gledware and her father Henry from certain death at the hands of his outlaw band. In the course of the rescue, he kills Kansas Kimball, the brother of the outlaws' leader Red Kimball, who vows vengeance against Brick. Brick renounces his life of crime, and after Gledware relinquishes custody of his daughter to marry an Indian princess, the old cowboy gives refuge to the little girl, raising her with the help of neighbor Bill Atkins. Years later Easterner Will Compton comes to Oklahoma to homestead, meets Lahoma and falls in love with her, but is forced to leave by Brick. While visiting Kansas City, Lahoma overhears Kimball plotting to kill Brick by swearing out a phony warrant for his arrest, but she foils his plan. Outwitted, Kimball takes revenge into his own hands and shoots Brick, only to fall in his tracks from Brick's own gun as the old outlaw breathes his last breath. Will returns to console Lahoma and the couple are married.
- Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location.
- Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
- Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
- Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him as "Colonel Steel...the notorious Colonel Steel...the singing killer." The plot then follows a predictable course, but there are plenty of scenes featuring W.C. Fields.
- Son 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.
- Adoption of an orphan boy by a sergeant champion boxer leads to complications but ends happily.
- John and Mary had only been married a short time and Mary was naturally a little timid about staying in the cabin which he had furnished for her while he was away. Jack was the new forest ranger and was compelled to make long trips and be away from home oftentimes two or three days. He had picked out his cabin with a view to making it overlook all of the country through which he had to travel. "If you're ever in danger, Mary," said Jack, "make a smudge and send me a smoke signal. I will show you how to do it." In the front yard they put some sticks and dried grass and Jack showed Mary how to cover up the smoke rising from the smudge in such a way as to give the well-known danger signal of the forest. And well it was that he did so. For Hackensack and his gang viewed with alarm the unapproachable honesty of the new ranger and inasmuch as they were engaged in such nefarious undertakings as cattle stealing, smuggling and brand changing, they could not afford to have an honest ranger on their trail. So they laid a trap for him. But Jack, suddenly becoming aware that he was being followed, rigged up a stick with his hat and coat on it. When the ambushers closed in, he held them up and brought them in triumph to the sheriff. "Here's two of Hackensack's gang. I'll bring in the others, I hope, next week." Two of Hackensack's gang and Hackensack were standing near and overheard the remark. In their hideout in the mountains they planned to entrap Jack. The plan was well laid and involved entering his home and capturing him when he returned. Mary saw them coming and at the first opportunity lit the smoke signal in the front yard, but before she could give the signal Hackensack got wise to her I and kicked out the fire. The gang got quite enthusiastic about Mary and thought that it would be a fine thing if she prepared them a home-made dinner. Mary, in fear and trembling, did the best she could and all hands except Mary seemed to enjoy it. Then an idea occurred to her. As she turned the damper in the chimney and hoped that the interruption of the smoke column would give the same effect as the blanket over the fire in the front yard. It worked famously and Jack, miles away, through his glass, saw the signal and hurried home just in time to prevent catastrophe and captured the villains when they were getting altogether too much interested in Mary.
- Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind up in the guardhouse. Their girlfriends are determined to get married, however, and in order to accomplish this, they disguise themselves as soldiers and sneak onto the base, where they unwittingly get mixed up with enemy spies trying to gather information.
- Despondent over the infidelity of his wife, William McCabe wanders on the waterfront considering suicide, but instead he saves the life of Shark Moran. Moran gives McCabe a job on his lightship, where McCabe enjoys the solitude and falls in love with Ann Reynolds, the daughter of the captain of the supply ship. One day Moran rescues a woman in a storm and makes advances toward her. When McCabe discovers the woman to be his own wife, there is a violent quarrel between the two men. But their friendship prevails, Moran apologizes, and Helda McCabe reveals that William is free to marry Ann.
- Blossom Ruggles, the fiercely independent daughter of Arizona cattleman Hank Ruggles, loves neighboring rancher Asa Harris. To pique Asa, however, she flirts with mining engineer Frank Stimpson, who unknown to her, has deceived pretty half-wit Amelia Young. While riding the range, Blossom is attacked by a Mexican bandit, but manages to overpower him, and deliver him to Asa and the cowboys, who throw him from a cliff. Later, the bandit is found unconscious by the sheriff and taken to jail. Learning of the half-wit's plight, Blossom mounts a posse, apprehends Frank, and forces him at gunpoint to marry Amelia. After the ceremony, Asa and Blossom are also wed.
- Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her sick uncle. In her absence, Abel falls under the corrupting influence of some friends who take him to Ryan's, a notorious dance hall, where he meets seductress Glory Prada. Glory determines to make a conquest of Abel, who gradually falls under her spell and finally marries her. After learning of the news, Abel's mother dies of grief and Joan marries Dave, a fisherman. Abel is ostracized by the townspeople because of their animosity towards his wife, who soon tires of him and elopes with Jose Silva, proprietor of a traveling circus. Several years pass, during which time Glory is shot to death by Jose and Dave drowns in a storm, leaving behind Joan and their two children. Abel agrees to care for Joan's son, but in a fit of despondency decides to drown himself. As he enters the water, his ward cries after him and Abel regains his will to live. Later, when Joan comes to visit her son, she and Abel reunite and start life anew.
- When Barbara Hampton, a rancher's daughter, is elected sheriff of a small Western town, she earns the enmity of her father's foreman, Joe Knowles, who is in league with a band of rustlers headed by the outlaw Ramez. Plotting against Barbara, Knowles discharges all the honest ranch hands and replaces them with Ramez' men. Then he frames Hampton for cattle rustling, thus forcing Barbara to jail her own father. In the meantime, Knowles and Ramez drive off hundreds of cattle in the direction of the Mexican border. Setting out to prove her father's innocence, Barbara trails the rustlers to their lair, captures them and brings them to justice, thus clearing her father's name. Her task accomplished, Barbara settles down with Bob Purdy, the son of a neighboring rancher.
- The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.
- While traveling near Suez in a dense fog, the freighter Glencoe almost runs into an apparently abandoned freighter that is drifting aimlessly. As the crew investigates the mysterious vessel, they find twelve dead men lined up in two rows. In front of them sits an elderly, deranged man who repeatedly protests that he has been tried and found innocent. There is evidence of an enormous fight, and more dead men litter the cabins and decks below. Further search reveals the presence of two more survivors: a beautiful young woman and an injured man. When the man is revived, he informs the boarding party that he is an English insurance detective named Bannister. He then begins to tell his rescuers the strange tale of how he came to be "the last man:" Bannister worked for Hoyt's Insurance of London and was assigned by Marsden, the firm's top representative in Suez, to investigate a series of mysterious and costly ship losses sustained by ship line owner John Wingate. Suspecting that Wingate is scuttling his own vessels in order to collect the insurance, Bannister travels to Suez in the guise of a trouble-making seaman. His feigned aggressiveness gets him put ashore at Suez, where he begins his investigation. Also aboard the ship were Wingate and his beautiful daughter Marian, who is traveling with her father to help quiet the mysterious fears from which he suffers. Bannister finds his way through the dives and streets of the port, encountering dangerous criminals and a villain named English Charlie. Inspired by clues found during his wanderings, Bannister decides to ferret out the culprit by luring him with a shipment of $1,000,000 in gold, which is actually a load of iron. Marsden, who is the instigator of the insurance fraud scheme, arranges for one of Wingates' ships to carry the gold. Seeing an opportunity to get the gold, the insurance money and Marian, whom he desires, Marsden accompanies her and Wingate on the journey. Bannister boards at the last minute and keeps a close eye on Marian, with whom he has begun a romance. The crew is in Marsden's employ, but some of them, hearing a rumor that the gold is to be put ashore on an island, believe that they are being double-crossed. A desperate gun battle occurs and all of the crew are killed. Bannister is wounded while finishing off Marsden, after which the ship drifts until it is found by the Glencoe . Now that the case has been solved and Wingate vindicated, Bannister looks forward to a happy ending with Marian.
- Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the island. When he locates Ruth, he learns that her father has disappeared. The ensuing search is hindered by greedy gold hunters and wild animals.
- Feature version of the 1934 Mascot serial "The Lost Jungle".
- When young inventor Bob Moore fails in his efforts to provide his father, a safe manufacturer, with a lock that is burglar proof, he contacts The "Eel," the most talented safecracker in the city, to offer him a job in his factory. The Eel, deciding to go straight, accepts the offer, but when he later learns that Irene Hardin has been given a valuable necklace by her father, The Eel plans one last job to secure Irene's pearls. Meanwhile, Irene's father, also a safe manufacturer, places the pearls in his own safe and tells Bob that if he can open it, Irene will be his. Bob, in love with Irene, opens the safe and places the pearls on the handle. After he departs, The Eel enters the house and steals the pearls. Bob is accused of the crime, and to exonerate himself, pursues The Eel. After a lively fight, Bob recovers the necklace and returns home to claim his bride.
- Two ranchers quarrel, suspecting each other of castle rustling. The son of one proves that it is the work of a gang and rounds them up.
- When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
- Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside, and only one who can save her is Murphy.
- A prisoner copes with being in a strait jacket by projecting his mind throughout time and space.
- When an Easterner arrives in the West and makes too favorable an impression on the belle of the town, the foreman of the heroine's range is handed a knock-out punch by the little green monster jealousy and plans to eliminate his rival.
- A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.