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- British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
- Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
- After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.
- In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
- A beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
- A grieving war widow meets a young Lieutenant but spurns him for trying too hard to gain her affection. Will she give him a second chance when they meet again?
- A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
- A waiter in a cheap cabaret loves the premier dancer of the place, and when a noted theatrical producer visits the cabaret, the waiter by deft manipulation obtains his wallet. He dresses the young woman up and tries to put her on Broadway.
- A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
- Small-town sheriff Pat Halahan, goes to see the sights in San Francisco, where he captures a pretty burglar, Faith O'Day, when she attempts to rob his room. Pat talks to Faith, and she agrees to give up her life of crime. Pat then takes it upon himself to return a brooch Faith has stolen that same evening. He is detected while putting it back in a jewelry case in a woman's boudoir, and detectives follow him back to the hotel. Faith pretends that she is his wife, telling the detectives that they have been together the entire evening. Faith later escapes from Pat, and he follows her to her home, where he meets Quig Mundy, a gangster. In order to ingratiate himself with Mundy, Pat impersonates The Chicago Kid, a gangster, and joins Mundy's gang. Pat tips off the police, but when the real Chicago Kid shows up, Pat is beaten and locked in a cellar. The police free Pat, and he goes to Faith's house, where he saves her from Mundy, who is shot by a mysterious Chinese undercover agent working for the San Francisco police.
- When Bob Smith brings in the outlaw Bob Moore he learns his real name is also Bob Smith. With his sister whom he has not seen since childhood arriving, Moore gets Smith to pose as him. The masquerade works fine for a while but then Moore's gang members plan to kill him and Smith must save the brother of the woman he now loves.
- "Frisco Flash," a pugilist with a taste for culture, is employed by the head of the aristocratic Bannerman family to put his children under control. "Frisco" takes to luxury like a cat to cream and later re-enters the ring in spangled trunks and a ribbon girdle, meeting defeat on all sides. However, a knock-out blow from his opponent brings him to and he turns defeat into success before leaving the ring.
- In Vienna after the war, Professor Schreber and his daughter, Bianca, are reduced to poverty. Gregory, the janitor of the apartment house in which they live, assaults the girl, and her father sets fire to the building in order to preserve his daughter's honor, himself dying in the flames. Bianca escapes from the burning building and devotes herself to avenging the rich, from whom she, disguised as the Crimson Runner, and her band of daredevil thieves continually steal. Among those who suffer from the gang's depredation is the handsome Count Meinhard, a gallant nobleman who later shields Bianca from the police when she take refuge in his apartment. Meinhard falls in love with the lovely thief, and she eventually comes to return his affection. Under the assumed name of Krutz, Gregory has been elevated from janitor to chief of police; he falls into Bianca's power, and Meinhard kills him in a duel. Bianca is later pardoned for her crimes, and she and Meinhard find happiness in the halls of royalty.
- A young white girl raised by an Arab family is promised in marriage to an Arab sheik. He persuades her to try to steal some important documents from a British secret agent. She and the agent fall in love and she refuses to steal the documents, but they wind up missing anyway. The sheik is angered at her betrayal. Complications ensue.
- In the midst of a romantic entanglement between Colin and Molly Thatcher, Capt. John Ferguson, blinded and cast adrift from his wife by sea pirate "Butch" Anderson 18 years earlier, miraculously stumbles on the villain when he is rescued from a wrecked ship by the fire patrol and takes his revenge.
- When J. Smythe opens a fashionable women's shop in the little town of Santa Boobara, Jackie Cameron takes over her father's establishment across the street and converts it into an up-to-date haberdashery. Smythe, having fallen for Jackie, gives her preference over all his other customers and persuades her to buy a dress already promised to Evelina Skinner, daughter of the town's richest and meanest man. Two kidnappers, shadowing Evelina, mistake Jackie for her and hold Jackie for ransom. Smythe, learning of Jackie's disappearance and seeing the men enter the Skinner residence, follows them to their cabin and rescues Jackie. They force the kidnappers, who have robbed Skinner, to the sheriff's office, collect Skinner's reward, and decide to enter into a lifetime partnership.
- After his release from Sing Sing, Bill Preston is unable to go straight as he is constantly hounded by "Gloomy Gus," an operative of the Tierney Detective Agency. Bill is killed during a bank robbery, and his wife Nancy and son Bubsy are taken into the protection of Mike Horgan, Bill's friend from Sing Sing who had studied medicine part-time. Eluding "Gloomy Gus," Mike obtains a job in a factory but is arrested and sent to jail for robbery; Nancy, a former underworld character known as "Straw Nancy," is also arrested but is freed. Falsely accused of the murder of Pasquale, a fence for cheap crooks who tried to abuse her, she escapes. She is joined by Mike when he breaks out of prison. They go to a small town, and there Mike begins to practice medicine under his real name, Stafford. Tierney discovers the pair but falls ill and is nursed back to health by Mike and Nancy. When "Gloomy Gus" arrives with a warrant, he experiences a change of heart and proves Nancy's innocence. Mike and Nancy then marry.
- The story of a young man from a small town who wants to play on Broadway. His father sends him to NYC to have his fling at night life. He arranges a job for his son in the city but also sees to it that the young man gets into as much trouble as possible. Everything goes along as planned until the young man meets a young telephone operator. He had been getting into trouble in the past, but gets into far more while defending her. The film has a surprising yet satisfying ending. It was filmed in the heart of the city and also on the lower East Side. Rod La Rocque plays the role of Roger Bentley and Dorothy Gish plays the telephone operator. Ernest Torrance is the father.
- A bandit known as The Black Mask is terrorizing the countryside around the California border town of Caliboro. When word spreads that the Mask's gang will hit town, the town priest turns over the church's money to the local sheriff for safekeeping. The gang attacks the town and tries to take the money, but Deputy Phil Morgan stops it. Unfortunately, the sheriff is killed in the process. Morgan disguises himself as the Black Mask in order to find the gang's hideout, but is captured by the local townspeople who think he is the real Black Mask. Complications ensue.
- A young cowhand befriends a disreputable gambler and pulls him out of some trouble. Hoping to square things with his new friend, the gambler seeks to warn him about the cowhand's fiancée, about whom the gambler knows some unsavory details.
- "In the days of the California Gold Rush of '49, Sandy is at odds with his partner, Falloner, over the latter's heavy drinking. Falloner is killed by Lasham, who many years before ran off with Falloner's wife. Sandy brings Falloner's children, Cissy and Jimmy, and their Aunt Betsey to Sacramento from Missouri. He then sets out to find the mother and to avenge his partner's death. Lasham induces Betsey to take the night boat for Sandy Bar with him, under the pretense of finding the children's mother. Sandy rides after them and swims to the steamer, arriving in time to save a frightened Betsey from Lasham. In a fight, Lasham is knocked overboard and drowns. The mother, who under the name Madame Le Blanc has been living with Lasham, helping him with his gambling and other nefarious schemes, becomes a novice in a convent. Sandy and Betsey are wed"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
- A two-reel comedy starring Bull Montana as the villainous Earl of Nothingdone, and working hard to get something done about Robemgood before he makes off with the hand and other parts of the fair Lady Merryann Fisswater. The Sherif of Rottingham is useless. And even more so when the Knight of the Cauliflower replaces Nothingdone.
- Margie Carr, the only daughter of wealthy Tom "Old Top" Carr, becomes determined to aid the less fortunate following an inspirational commencement speech at her college graduation. She establishes the Cheer Society and hires a ruffian named Bubbs as her secretary, along with three of his comrades. Her jilted fiancé, Homer Dean Chadwick, retaliates by founding a charity for impoverished chorus girls, and sparks Margie's jealousy when she sees him in the company of a former chorine named Flossy. Following a disastrous social event, which included Bubbs and his friends as guests, Margie realizes the folly of her endeavor and agrees to marry Homer.
- A wealthy miser lives with his servant, who looks exactly like him. His nephew, of whom he is guardian, has decided on a career as an artist, not a businessman like his uncle wants him to be, so he changes his will to leave his entire estate to a cousin, Hector. One day the miser wakes up to find his servant dead. He decides to take the servant's place and find out just exactly what his relatives think of him.
- Hal Owen, late of West Point, is traveling in a wagon train to join his father's regiment at Fort Sumner in the Bad Lands, when a lone rider tries to warn the wagon train of an impending Indian attack. Owen, struck with cowardice, escapes on the rider's horse, leaving others to battle the Indians. After the Indians attack the wagon train, only "Freckles," the young son of a pioneer family, and Patrick Angus O'Toole, the lone rider, survive. O'Toole, known in the Army as "Famous Sergeant O'Toole," is also on his way to Fort Sumner and is assigned to clear up a smuggling operation there. Because of his un-soldierly appearance, O'Toole has difficulty gaining the troops' confidence. His difficulties increase when he thrashes Captain Blake for forcing his attentions on Mary Owen, the colonel's daughter, whom he secretly admires. Incensed, Blake vents his anger on her brother, Hal Owen, by giving him only twenty-four hours to pay his gambling debts. Hal Owen attempts to hold up the Pony Express, but Blake arranges for O'Toole to be arrested for the crime. Colonel Owen leaves his son in charge of the fort while the garrison rides out to reconnoiter. Suddenly, the Indians attack the fort, and during the excitement Freckles frees O'Toole, who finds Hal Owen hiding in a corner, trembling in fear. When O'Toole finally gets him to fight, Hal Owen battles the Indians like a demon until he is fatally wounded. The garrison returns to turn the tide of battle, and Charlie Squirrel, a half-breed, is captured and confesses to smuggling guns and liquor with the aid of Captain Blake, the leader of the band. Hal Owen, on his deathbed, confesses to the robbery, clearing O'Toole. Mary and O'Toole are united.
- Embittered because he has been dispossessed of a claim, Tiger Bill Thompson learns from a dying bandit about a hidden cache of plunder, but the man's heir has the map containing instructions where to find it. Tiger hires on to a neighboring ranch and sets out to steal the money, but when he discovers that the heir is young Ethel Brannon, Tiger has a change of heart. He falls in love with Ethel, and tries to foil the efforts of her father's gang, which also wants the loot. After many fist fights, shootouts, and riding stunts, Tiger Bill wins Ethel's love.
- A society woman telephones the orphanage and asks the matron to lend her the two "worst boys she has." She wishes to cure her husband of a desire to adopt children. The matron, eager to be relieved of the twins, sends Buster and Custer.
- Young Betty Baylock is courted by three young men, but doesn't love any of them. However, her father--a wealthy stockbroker--demands that she choose a husband from among the three. Angered, Betty dismisses them all. She soon meets and falls for Jack Grey, a young man who has already made and squandered a fortune, and this infuriates her father even more. When Betty and Jack marry, the father throws them both out of the house, telling them that until Jack earns back all the money he has lost, he'll have nothing to do with them.
- Pursued for robbery by New York City police, a crook known as "Night Hawk" befriends José Valdez, a Mexican American who has come to town to hire an assassin to kill the sheriff of a western town. Hawk takes the job, and Valdez helps him escape the city. However, when he arrives in the West, he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter, Clia Milton, and is unable to complete his mission. He joins Sheriff Milton's posse when José Valdez's father, a cattle rustler, illegally makes himself sheriff; single-handedly, Night Hawk rescues the girl from José's brigands.
- Betty Foster comes west to visit her uncle's ranch, but is disappointed that the nearby town of War Whoop is quiet and peaceful, and none of the citizens look like the cowboy heroes she saw in Eastern cinemas. Things pick up, however, when Betty witnesses a robbery in which bandits rob $10,000 of her uncle's mortgage money from Pete Grainger, the ranch foreman. Appalled by Pete's lack of heroics during the robbery, Betty upbraids him, and the foreman quits. He finds employment in town as a sign painter. When one of the bandits, Dan Merrill, ships the stolen money in a box of dried apples, Pete accidentally spills paint on the box and starts a comedy of errors that prevents the box from leaving town. When Betty overhears the bandits discussing the location of the stolen money, she dresses up like a bandit and steals the paint-splashed crate of apples, but it turns out to be the wrong box. Pete eventually helps Betty find the money, and breaks her out of jail when she is arrested. Dan Merrill follows them into the hills, and Pete knocks him over a cliff during a fight. His heroics win Betty's heart, but what really captures her love is Pete's new outrageous mail-order cowboy costume, which fits her idea of what a Western hero should be.
- Southwest ranchers Jim Downing, Art Parsons, and his brother Joel Parsons fight over Judith Benson, a beautiful milliner whom they all want to marry. She is swept off her feet by the ruthless Downing, however, and agrees to marry him. Art is found dead, apparently having killed himself in his grief, and Joel, blaming Judith for his death, sets off for Alaska to assuage his sorrow. Several years later, Joel meets Judith in a Yukon dance-hall, where, having left her rotten husband, she has become an indentured entertainer. Joel (known now as "Silent Sanderson") uses his fists and a payment of gold to free Judith, and takes her to his cabin, planning to avenge his brother's death on her. Jim Downing follows and, stricken with snow blindness, brags to Joel that he will kill him just as he once killed Art Parsons. When Downing attacks Judith, Joel defends her, and throws the battered Downing to a pack of wolves in the snow. He forgives Judith, and with his sympathy rekindled, takes her back to the Southwest cow country.
- The hero is seen as a successful chef in a "short-order" restaurant. After a succession of humorous events, the erstwhile food-preparer finds himself ascended to a position enabling him to rub elbows with royalty.
- A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she commits suicide. When her brother finds out what happened, he turns to a life of banditry, hoping to find the gang responsible for his sister's death.
- The O'Tooles inherit a fortune and move to Pasadena where they try to break into society by having lavish dinner parties. The guests are stunned by the O'Tooles' manners, and they leave when the "Pittsburgh Kid" and his Bowery wife, Yvonne, uninvited guests, arrive.
- An aristocratic society couple adopt a foundling of unknown parentage. At the age of ten, however, the unknown foundling heard the call of worldly adventure and ran away from the luxurious home of his wealthy foster-parents. As the story opens, the prodigal son, whose given name is "Little Oswald," returns to Home and Mother - not as the handsome and romantic type as visualized by the society belles assembled to pay homage, but as - well, Bull Montana, with cauliflower ears, a checkered suit, a derby lid, a big black cigar - and two of the finest "hard boiled pals" that ever traversed the underworld.