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- An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
- In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
- Venice, what emotions it awakens in the Young Stranger as he reads about it in his book. He decides to pay this beautiful city a visit. Upon his arrival, he walks from the railroad station to the landing place on the Grand Canal. There the crowd watches him with amusement as he blunderingly makes his way. Pitrello, a hotel tout, sees in the awkward Young Stranger a likely mark. He seizes his baggage, hurries him into a gondola and conducts him through a network of canals and bridges to the hotel. In the meantime, the Bridegroom, a rich wine merchant, is escorting his young Bride to the church where they are to be married. She is unutterably sad because her heart is elsewhere. Suddenly her face lights up; nearby stands the Officer, her true love. And now the gondola of the Young Stranger nears the scene. He lands and, as he is looking about curiously, the bridal party passes and he is smitten with the beauty of the pale Bride. After the services the bridal party proceeds toward the hotel, the same one for which the Young Stranger is headed. The Young Bride cannot forget her Officer. She throws a rose to him as he stands below looking at her pleadingly. The Young Stranger, mistaking her intention, thinks the rose is meant for him. A merry wedding feast is held in the courtyard of the hotel. The Officer waits for stolen sweets and the Bride smiles at him. Her smiles the Young Stranger intercepts and takes for himself. Love's message meant for another. While the dancing continues, the Bride pleads sudden indisposition and retires to her room. The Young Stranger in an adjoining room goes to sleep with the rose of his romance at his lips. The events of the day had made a deep impression upon him, and now his brain, active in sleep, conjures up before him a wonderful dream. At first all the people he met during the events of the day pass before him in a shadowy dance. Then he sees the room of the Bride. Within it stands the Officer, pleading with her. There is a knock at the door. What shall she do? She hides him behind the curtains and the Bridegroom enters. He has been drinking very freely. But now Pitrello drops from the upper transom. Unseen by the Bridegroom, he stealthily creeps behind the curtain and engages in mortal combat with the Officer. He kills the Officer, but so swiftly and silently is this accomplished that only the Bride, her face turned toward the combatants, is aware of the tragedy. She renews her pleading with her husband that he leave her room for the night. He yields to her request. The criminal Pitrello had, in the meantime, escaped. Terror-stricken, the Bride hides the dead body in her own bed. From the Young Stranger's room the Bride hears a song of love. An idea occurs to her. She will ask him to dispose of the body for her. He sees her, dresses rapidly and follows. The Young Stranger pleads his love. Suddenly the Bride horrifies him by showing him the corpse. She entreats him to help her. At first he is reluctant, but finally he consents. The Young Stranger drags the body to the balcony. Pitrello, however, dogs his every step and frustrates his intentions. Here is an opportunity, the deep well. Into its depth the dead body will go. But no, Pitrello squats upon the lid and the Young Stranger drags the corpse to a boat. He boards the boat with his dreadful charge, so does Pitrello. For the far-off shores of the Island of the Dead he steers and there he throws the body into the silent waters of the lagoon. At last he is free to rejoin the Bride. But Pitrello leaps into the waters and drags the body back to shore. Then he conjures up three more bodies. He sets them up, one after another, like so many nine-pins and the Young Stranger recoils from the ghastly sight. Outlined in shadow, the little craft re-crosses the waters of the lagoon. When the Young Stranger lands, however, he is again confronted with peril. The Officer, come to life, rushes at him, sword in hand. They fence and the Young Stranger is victorious. Another Officer, however, leaps toward him. Another scuffle. Thus he struggles with the four and kills them. But he has reckoned without Pitrello. His Evil Genius breathes hack the spark of life into them. They arise and pursue the fleeing Young Stranger. A vast mob brandishing weapons follows after. But the Young Stranger manages to reach the Bride's room. There he relates his fearful misadventures. She listens to him sadly and at last rewards him with a kiss. The drinking and dancing had continued in the lobby of the hotel all through the night. The Bridegroom, drunk, is conducted by the servants, under the leadership of Pitrello, into the Young Stranger's room. They deposit the Bridegroom in the Young Stranger's bed. But the Young Stranger soon begins to feel the weight of his little bed partner. At first he imagines that the hand he holds belongs to the Bride, but he is soon disillusioned. In disgust, he wriggles his way out of bed, dresses and gets ready for departure. The Bride has come out smiling and inquires after her husband. There is much commotion among the servants working eagerly for the much coveted tips. Pitrello, ever quick, has stirred into action even the lazy fellow, who, tired from the revelry of last night, is sleeping on the stairs. All is bustle and hurry-scurry as the bridal party leaves in a gondola. Poor Young Stranger. His dream of love cannot stand the daylight of reality. Sadly he notes how the Bride has made room in the gondola for the Officer. The fat Bridegroom is too stupid to know her real feelings, but the Young Stranger understands. He presses to his lips the cherished rose of sweet romance, and as the bridal party glides under the bridge on which he is standing, he showers its petals upon her.
- To inherit, 18-year-old Jesta must pretend to only age 12 when her American uncle arrives.
- Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.
- Younger brother Johannes falls for Gertrud, the wife of his older brother Martin, and the three begin a quasi-incestuous relationship.
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- Three charming sisters vow to one another eternal adherence to the blessing. of single life. Augusta, ring-leader of the three, is particularly violent toward the sterner sex. She looks for a position, obtains several, but resigns them because of the unwelcome attentions forced upon her by various men. Meantime her sister Ethel gives music lessons in their apartment, while Clara, the third sister, a medical student, secures a position as assistant to young Doctor Squibb. In the same apartment house with the sisters lives a girl who is receiving attentions from Carl Waldeck, a young attorney. Her father has forbidden the young man to call upon her. Carl calls upon her one day and barely manages to escape the angry father. He seeks refuge in the apartment of the three sisters and entreats them to permit him to stay there to avoid his pursuer. To get rid of him they make a bridge of their ironing-board. On this he escapes through a window into another flat. The morning after Augusta receives her answer to a position in an office of two attorneys. She makes such a good impression upon Mr. Speck, one of the attorneys, that she secures a position. Here she undergoes the same annoyances that she has received before, which only ends when she knocks the office manager down. This causes him the loss of his position. She is now promoted to his position and requests that her former position be given to her sister, Ethel. Mr. Speck consents. Ethel makes a hit with the office clerk. Clarence Hallroom, a confirmed bachelor. He and Ethel make eyes at one another and are intercepted by Augusta, who asserts her authority and puts a stop to the lovemaking. One day Carl returns from his vacation to his work, and is recognized as the ironing-board tourist. The beauty of Augusta has made a profound impression on him but in seeking to obtain from her a corresponding feeling he receives a rebuff. He decides to teach her a lesson. He arouses her jealousy by a flirtation with Ethel. Augusta resigns her position and leaves and compels poor Ethel to leave with her. Clarence cannot forget her and seeks an excuse to call upon her. Freed from the grim censorship of Augusta, they shortly come to an understanding. A little later Augusta, now returning to her home, receives a call from Waldeck. As she will not admit him by the door, he enters the apartment through the window by means of the ironing-board. His eloquence sweeps away the last vestiges of her old-time man-hate, and she also becomes engaged. That very same day the charming Clara joins the ranks of the brides-to-be becoming engaged to Dr. Squibb.
- In WWI, women have taken over as barbers while the men are fighting. A young man, Ernst, played by the director, falls for the daughter of one of these female barbers.
- Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden shed and sets fire to it.
- Christmas 1914 in Germany - in a village the whole community is attending the mass, almost everybody has relatives in the trenches, from the Earls down to the farmer. Countess Lo's brother is lieutenant, the son of the widow next door is Seargent in the same company. He writes her, that he's coming home for Christmas with a seargent who saved his live - a Christmas present for the family. Lo also invites the widow for Christmas dinner. Her brother arrives with the seargent, everybody is very happy and soon, Lo falls in love with the seargent, but the trouble is, he's from a lower class and a marriage seems rather impossible, but the war has already changed quite a lot...
- In the role that brought him stardom, future director Lubitsch is a bumbling provincial who loses his clothing store gig after breaking a window.But moving on to classier Berlin, he becomes rich and dapper and marries the boss' daughter.
- An honorable Lord who is developing a drug with which he transforms himself into another, that is, dissociated from all social constraints. One of the first cinematic adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde material.