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- A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
- A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
- After he loses his money and horse in a poker game, Yak learns he was cheated. But then he learns that the men that cheated him are wanted and have a price on their heads. This gives him a chance to get his money back and more, so he sets out after them.
- Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy Yak takes over the search for the rustlers. John Lawson says Yak cannot marry his daughter until the murderer of the Sheriff is caught. But unknown to Lawson, the murderer is his own son.
- Cowboy Burt Morgan loses all his money at poker, so sets out to find a job. On the trail his horse gets spooked and throws him, knocking him out. An Indian passing by shoots Burt's dog, then regrets it and leaves the unconscious Burt a bag of gold nuggets as payment. Two passing cowboys see this and attack and beat the Indian, stealing his treasure map. The local sheriff is told by the two cowboys that Burt has killed the Indian, but when the sheriff refuses to arrest Burt, the cowboys decide to kill him themselves.
- Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
- The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd's lead horse manages to break them free. The foreman blames a drifting cowboy, Yak, for the break-out. Yak, however, seems intent on provoking a confrontation with the foreman at every opportunity--and, as it turns out, for good reason.
- Cowboy Jim Stanley befriends Mona and her crippled brother Phil, who are at odds with their stepfather. When Phil is charged with murder, Jim helps him. Eventually, the stepfather is arrested for killing Phil and Mona's father.
- While his wife (Helen Foster) is away, the husband (Johnny Arthur) attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog (Napolean) decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
- A Western Union messenger interrupts a burglary and tries to catch the thieves.
- Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Mays. After Yak catches and tames the wild horse, Mays gets Yak out of the way by having him arrested for murder. Mays and his men can now make one last raid.
- Yak Darnell once known as the Outlaw Breaker no longer carries a gun. When there is a conflict between cattlemen and sheep men and a man is shot, Yak is framed. Escaping the lynch mob he once more straps on his gun.
- Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
- Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. Taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
- La Rue, a notorious smuggler, kidnaps Helen Bentley, whom Jim Adams saves from a "torture den" until the arrival of customs authorities.
- Ted Winters was a famous fullback, but has hit hard times. He takes a job at a military academy in hopes of landing a scholarship. He also hopes to win the commandant's beautiful niece Betty. Cadet Major Snodgrass is also after Betty, and this causes problems for Ted and Betty.
- A deputy comes upon a young girl who has been fired and cheated out of her wages by her former employer. The deputy helps her get what's due her, and accompanies her to her hometown, where they discover that her stepfather has plans to marry her off to a big-time smuggler.
- The four inhabitants of a remote mountain cabin find themselves snowed in for the winter. The only things they can find to occupy their time are copies of "The Count of Monte Cristo" and the Bible. They decide to read the book, and wind up acting out a series of incidents from the book.
- Johnny, the tourist, picks up the girl walking back from an auto ride. She invites him to dine with her folks. The pair of crooks are also dining there and discover the value of a well on the premises. Helen's parents are warned that unless the taxes are paid that day the property will be forfeited. Johnny overhears the crooks plotting and with Helen in the flivver starts for the tax office at the same time the crooks start in their touring car. Both machines meet with difficulties, with the flivver the eventual winner.
- Silent feature film directed by Francis Ford.
- Johnny is a step on-which mean that the family steps on him every chance it gets. His two big brothers bully him incessantly. Johnny has two tickets to the Motorman's Ball and has asked Virginia to accompany him. George, his brother, makes Johnny press his clothes and when Johnny burns them he takes Johnny's only suit-also the ticket and also take Virginia to the ball. Johnny settles down to listen to the radio, but George tell him to keep away from it. When the family is out of the house Johnny defies his brother and places the phone on his ears, listening to a "bedtime story." He falls asleep and dreams a wonderful dream. A fairy appears and with a pass of her wand dresses him in the best fitting clothes. From a pile of tin cans she makes a magic coach-a flivver with footman and driver and they drive to the ball. The fairy remembers he has forgotten something and appears at the ball and warns Johnny that he must be home by midnight for his fine raiment will disappear then. Johnny has a fine time at the ball but it ends in disaster when he is forced to take a picture of the guest. A fight starts and Johnny is victorious in outwitting his enemies but he looks at the clock-and it is two minutes to twelve. He races to his coach and starts for home-but the coach dissolves into a stack of cans beneath his feet. His collar leaves him, his coat flies away, his vest follows and just as he enters the door his trousers leave him. He regains his chair just as the brothers return from the ball. George takes a punch at Johnny for listening to the radio set just as the announcer says "Goodnight, lads and lassies of radioland" - and Johnny echoes-"GOOD NIGHT"
- Jack Sontag, son of a western pioneer, bids goodbye to his fiancée, Beatrice Dale, as she departs for college back east. Jack resumes his pursuit after a gang of smugglers and kidnappers, operating in Mexico, led by Mafia Mike. By a ruse, Jack is accepted into the gang. Meanwhile, Beatrice is kidnapped and brought to Mexico to be sold to the highest bidder among the white-slave trade. Jack rescues her and, with the aid of the Mexican Rurales, rounds up Mafia Mike's gang.
- Johnny is a pupil in a school for barbers. He is elated when he is sent out to a swell hotel barber shop in the city. Johnny makes a lot of errors with a razor, but fortunately doesn't scalp anyone. He handles hot towels carelessly and is a little unhandy with the clippers, but by managing to escape the eagle eye of the proprietor he keeps his job. Then he meets Helen. She is a simple country girl with her dresses to her ankles. She hasn't even learned to roll her socks. She makes a big hit with Johnny, who is heart-broken when she is refused a job as manicurist at the barber shop. Johnny tells Helen that she must spruce up a bit. She tucks up her skirts, rolls down her socks and on her second appearance makes a big hit with the boss barber and gets the job. Johnny is already in love with her. One of Johnny's errors with a razor results in the complete destruction of the beard of one of the patrons. But Johnny grabs the wig of a patron in a nearby chair, glues it on, and is about to get away with the deception when the bald-headed man discovers his loss. His wig is recovered but the bearded man swears vengeance when he catches Johnny. Johnny and Helen are sent to one of the hotel rooms to attend a guest. She is a beautiful vamp who proceeds to practice her wiles on Johnny. While she is vamping him, her sweetheart comes in. He is the man whom Johnny's error with the razor whom had robbed of the beard. He chases Johnny around the room until the luckless barber takes refuge in the bathroom. The guest next door, hearing a noise in the bathroom and thinking it is some suitor of his wife's breaks in the door just as the vamp's sweetheart enters from the other side. Each accuses the other-and the fight is on. When they are both knocked out, Helen enters, sees the prostrate men and, thinking Johnny has vanquished them, hails him as her hero.
- Johnny is a reporter on a big city newspaper. He is always about three hours behind the news, and his editor is about through with him. Anita, a jazz gunwoman, has been sentenced to Sing Sing and is to be sent up the river to begin serving her sentence that afternoon. The managing editor wants an interview with her but all his reporters are out. The managing editor decides to give Johnny a final chance and sends him on the assignment. Johnny rushes to the station just in time to catch the train. He finds the murderess chained to the sheriff. He is trying to interview her when the sheriff gets something in his eye. The officer asks Johnny to watch the girl while he removes the dirt from his eye. Johnny is and cuffed to Anita. Fred, the husband of the vamp, has been following her and attempts several times to rescue her. He is foiled, but when the train stops, Anita drags Johnny out after locking the sheriff in the washroom. She drags the protesting Johnny to a hotel, and waits for her husband to complete the rescue. Johnny falls out of the window and the handcuff chain is broken. He phones his newspaper that he has the vamp locked in a room in the hotel, and then he returns to his captive. When Anita discovers the broken chain, she forces Johnny into a closet and compels him to change clothes with her. Then she escapes and goes away with her husband. Johnny is desperate when he sees that he has lost the prisoner. The newspaper reporters arrive just in time to see Johnny come out in female attire. They, of course, start to kid him. But Johnny is mad and he starts on the trail of the notorious gunwoman. And it is not long before he captures her. Then Johnny is reinstated in his job.
- The wife and doctor of a hypochondriac come up with a creative way to cure him of his malady.
- The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
- His duties as the bellhop, clerk, office boy, messenger and porter at the local hotel keep Johnny busy, but he still finds time to romance Lucille, the daughter of the proprietor. Lucille also finds time to become fascinated with George, a traveling salesman, while Anita, a vamping vamp from New York City, works her wiles on Johnny.
- Johnny Peppercorn doesn't know the value of money - can't seem to realize that a dollar's worth about thirty cents. He is generally useless until a telegram from his guardian brings a great change in his life. The wire tells him that unless he goes west immediately and spends a year on the Circle-X ranch, where they'll make a man of him, his allowance will be cut off. With the aid of his valet, "Slats," and a correspondence school course. Johnny masters the theory of broncho riding, roping and six-gun play and then departs for the wild and woolly West. The boys of the Circle-X are rather agitated. The foreman has just received a warning from Black Bart, the Terror of the Plains, that he is about to pay the ranch a visit. They are in an anxious mood when they meet Johnny and "Slats" but they place them on ponies and start for the ranch house. The bronchos do their well-known western stuff, depositing Johnny in a watering trough and "Slats" on the hard round. After a few days on the ranch. Johnny overhears the foreman planning to play a joke on him. The cowboy are to kidnap Blossom Steele, to see whether Johnny has any sand. But their plans miscarry and Blossom is kidnapped by Black Bart and his henchmen - and Johnny lets them do it, thinking it is the foreman and his crew playing their joke. When he discovers his mistake he jumps on a horse and after a series of incidents, accidents and coincidence, rescues the girl and captures the bad man.
- Young Irish-American police officer Patrick Michael Casey walks a beat in his New York City neighborhood.
- Mr. and Mrs. Brown were a happily-married couple until she decided to get into charity work and, believing that charity begins at home, shoe started feeding and housing a large numbers of passing tramps and knights-of-the-road. This works many hardships on Mr. Brown until he decides to enter the charity works with a Be-Kind-to-Animals program, and begins by bringing home several ducks, a goat and several other types of barnyard animals. When he brings home an elephant, Mrs. Brown yields and promises to make her charity acts by a check.
- Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall off a cliff, and the experience affects him to the extent that he has lost his nerve. Oil promoter Dan Carson and geologist Lional Murphy find large oil deposits under Bill's ranch, and decide to swindle him out of them. Complications ensue.
- In Mexico, two men conspire to compel a young woman to marry the man of their choice to satisfy their financial needs. An American mining engineer, who is an excellent gunfighter, wins the girl's love by saving her and her brother from the machinations of the two men.
- Johnny is one of nature's noblemen. He is as pure as the driven snow and sings in the choir. Although he's more than sixteen, he's never been kissed. But he is in love. Kathryn is his beloved. She thinks the only thing he lacks to be an angel is wings. The path of true love is due to have some bumps in it, for there is a deep and dastardly plot abrewing. Wallace is plotting to get an inheritance that is coming to Kathryn and can only get it by marrying her. He plans to spoil Johnny's romance and marry Kathryn himself. Anita, a high-powered vamp, is pressed into the scheme. She waits for Johnny outside the church and finally traps him in her car and rushes him to her apartment where Johnny escapes just before he blushes himself into a fever. The wedding day arrives. The guests are assembled and all is ready. Suddenly Anita, dressed in rags, rushes into the room and commands the ceremony to halt. She then tells a harrowing tale of young love and betrayal by Johnny, painting him as the wolf in sheep's clothing. She tells how the monster carried her to his room and how she barely escaped without losing her dignity. She twists the facts until poor Johnny looks like the greatest rogue unhung. Anita sees that Wallace is paying too much attention to Kathryn and she double-crosses the villain. Then Johnny gets mad. He flares up like a two-bit skyrocket and cleans out Wallace in fine style:- But in the free-for-all fight, both he and his bride are decorated with black eyes for the wedding. Anita explains that her story was a pure and simple fabrication made up by Wallace, who had promised riches and his love if she helped him in his plot.
- Archive footage from various previously released two-reelers starring Eileen Sedgwick and Lightning the Dog re-edited into serial form; Gary Cooper's appearance is by way of one of these, original title undetermined.
- A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
- Jack is accused of horse stealing and trespassing after saving a girl from drowning.