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A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder.

A dance-hall girl falls for a pickpocket.

Egypt, circa 1230 BC. Israelites are inslaved, and the jewish girl Merapi falls in love with egyptian prince Seti, son of pharaoh Merneptah., which creates a lot of problems. By the end, Moses leads his people away from Egypt.

When the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary, she hesitates, but her mother convinces her that this is her chance to lead a life in luxury and leisure. The engagement is celebrated with an extravagant party at his estate, which is a gigantic palace and park in oriental style. His son Eduard arrives from Cambridge, accompanied by a priest, who is his tutor. The priest is disgusted by the bacchanalian reveling and womanizing going on everywhere. Mary's adorer, the sculptor Harry Lighton, tries to convince her to break the engagement. When she refuses, he shoots himself and is seriously injured. Mary falls asleep and is transported in her dream to the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the dream she sees herself as the wife of Lot, leaving her husband to play a central role in the excessive rites of the goddess Astarte. An angel arrives and leads Lot and his wife out of Sodom, just when the city starts to collapse. Lot's wife cannot resist looking back, and is because of her disobedience converted into a pillar of salt. The dream opens the eyes of Mary, and when she wakens, she leaves the party and hastens to Harry in the hospital.

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.

Peter is an aviator who dreams of a life in wealth and luxury. He meets the banker's daughter Dodo.

A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.

Count Marlin has been asked by the Duchess of Ormonde to visit him at her garden party. Pierre Danton, a prisoner, escapes. He meets Marlin's machine, jumps in, stuns Marlin with a blow, dresses in his domino and goes to the party. Vera meets him and takes him to her boudoir thinking him Marlin. Danton's story interests Vera. She shields him from the police. He tells her that he is the victim of Fate. Vera decides to help him. She gives him a small sum of money. He plays it at Monte Carlo and wins a fortune. When Vera comes to Monte Carlo she finds Danton a new man and loves him but his interest in centered in Bessie Winthrop, an American girl. Fate again turns against Danton and he loses all. He falls and in a bewildered mental condition dreams that he is about to commit suicide when he is stopped by a stranger. The stranger is Fate and he shows Danton in a series of three visions that Happiness is found by Youth in avoiding Temptation, Intrigue and Passion. Danton recovers. He finds his happiness in work in America with Bessie. Vera continues her old life.

Count Bobby assumes the identity and dresses of his sick aunt because they desperately need the money for chaperoning Mary, a wealthy American heiress, on her trip through Europe. Bobby falls in love with Mary, but his dress is a handicap.

The story deals with the love of Matho, the leader of the Libyan Mercenani, for Salammbo, the daughter of Hamilcar, who returned after the second Punic War to restore order in Carthage, which has been endangered by the treacherous conduct of the Council of Elders. Matho encounters a deadly rival in the person of Narr' Haras, a Numidian chief, a rivalry which commences at a great feast in Hamilcar's palace, where Matho first is dazzled by the beauty of the great general's daughter. For the love of Salammbo, Matho is willing to encounter any peril, and for he is induced to commit an act of sacrilege by stealing the sacred Veil of Tanit, an act to which he is incited by a renegade Greek who wishes to embroil the Mercenanis with the Carthagenians. Matho is rewarded by the love of Salammbo, but has to take arms against the vengeance of Hamilcar. The Mercenanis are defeated and Matho is treacherously taken by Narr' Haras, who has been selected by Hamilcar as the husband of Salammbo. On the day of their wedding, Matho is compelled to run the gauntlet of the vast crowds who have been incited against him for the sacrilege of the Veil. Almost torn to pieces by the angry mob, he falls prostrate at the feet of Salammbo, who claims his life from the Elders as a consideration for having restored the veil.

A woman has divorced her first husband after she learned he was a brute but the villain keeps hounding her even after she remarries, when she finally decides to kill him.

A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.

Melodrama of a boy taken from his family, adopted by a coachman,who grows up to be secretary to the minister of Justice, and to uncover dark plots, spearheaded by a femme fatale, that affected his own life and the lives of others.

As Napoleon approaches Vienna in 1809, the Valois claimant to the French throne waits there. Valois' daughter urges a patriotic Austrian student Medarus to assassinate the French emperor.

To lead a whole new life, probably more carefree, with the dancer Kitty, George Rothwill abandoned his wife Nora and his son. And without any scruples he squanders, with his new conquest, the money of his old mother.

Christian meets sweet Pratermizzi at the Viennese fair but is entranced by a dancer who never performs without a golden mask.

Edward Stephenson, the son of a great industrialist, is due to marry the daughter of another prominent business leader. But the boy prefers a modest employee of the latter, Maud Hartley, whose brother is an impossible rascal, murderer of a police officer. Maud is spurned by Edward who wrongly assumes she is unfaithful. Later, the girl is victim of a railway accident and then throws herself headlong into the easy life. Will the couple reunite again, for better or worse?

Jean Moeller and his brother-in-law Paul Holston both study medicine. Paul gets tuberculosis and only through a long stay in the South can he recover. To help Paul, Jean robs a wealthy Jewish merchant. Jean Moller is convicted of theft and banned from college. During his prison sentence, Paul dies after graduating. After his release, Jean takes the identity of Paul and he becomes a renowned doctor.

While walking the streets of Damascus, Georges Hanet, French artist, hears a woman's screams. He rushes to the place and finds Kora tied to a whipping post and swaying from the unmerciful beating of her master. He rescues and frees her. This wins her love and she follows him until he takes her into his home. Their love dream is finally interrupted by a letter from Hanet's mother. His father has been killed in an earthquake and it is necessary for him to return home. Kora pleads to be taken. Piqued by Hanet's secluding her in the cabin of the ship she eludes him and carries on a flirtation with Count Ceretti. When they arrive at Triest, Hanet goes to his mother. This further enrages Kora, who wants his entire attention and she leaves with the Count. Crazed with love and grief, Hanet searches until he finally finds Kora living in a palatial mansion as Ceretti's mistress. He effects an entrance, sees Kora in Ceretti's arms, and shoots, wounding Kora in the face and badly disfiguring her. At the trial Kora lies in testimony, and Hanet is sentenced to five years hard labor. At the end of three years he makes his escape. Under the name of Fred Jevons he wins a reputation as a painter and teacher. One of his pupils is Suzanne, daughter of the Marquis De Rives. Their love is mutual and Suzanne becomes his wife. During this time Kora has come to Paris and under the name of Madame Des Champs conducts a gambling house. The Marquis is a frequenter of the house. An important message takes Hanet to the resort and there he and Kora meet again. Kora tells Hanet that she has always loved him and demands that he come every night to her home. Otherwise she will denounce him to the police and thus force him to return to jail. The Marquis and Suzanne are amazed at Hanet's actions. Unable to endure the burden of her grief, Suzanne goes to Kora. She is followed by Hanet. Kora tells Suzanne of her relations with Hanet, declares that she will not allow them to be happy and sends a letter to the police. Before the letter can be mailed her insane jealousy and rage, long indulged, result in madness and she dies. The Count reads the letter, realizes Hanet's suffering and destroys it. Thus Hanet is freed and he and Suzanne find true happiness.