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- Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
- A dramatization of the real-life meeting of Al Jennings, the celebrated ex-bandit, with O. Henry, noted writer of short stories, in a drowsy village of Honduras, at a time when the two were able to take part in a revolution brewing just then. Al Jennings and William Sidney Porter aka O. Henry were life-long friends.
- Neal Hart becomes the skipper of a sailing vessel in this, and after being the victim of a frame-up, with circumstantial evidence stamping him guilty of a murder, he subdues his assailants and all is cleared up. The manner in which the villains are overheard, talking about their scheme to get Neal into the hoosegow, is old-time stuff, and the romantic ending is just tacked on to smooth out the finish. Several fights, in which Hart invariably administers beatings to two or more of his crew at a time.
- A young woman falls in love with the man of her dreams, not knowing that he's an embezzler who's about to flee the country.
- Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
- Two newly married carnival performers head to New York to make it big on Broadway, but after they get there the wife finds that a wealthy playboy has designs on her.
- A young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
- Vignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
- At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
- A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
- A cowboy searches for his sister who has been abducted by a band of outlaws.
- The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
- In this comedy, a civilian singer of opera is obliged to fulfill his duty and perform six weeks of military service.
- A vivacious girl seeks an office job in hard times in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she lands up working at, flirts with her while hiding his identity, so at first she rejects him.
- The beautiful dancer Barberina lies at the foot of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, too, wants to engage her in his opera house. When she refuses, he lets her take her under military surveillance to Berlin, forces her to appear, and tries so eagerly for her that a love-story seems to arise between them. However, when Friedrich goes to war with Austria, Barberina falls in love with the secretary baron of Cocceji. After a concert on the occasion of the King's return, she wants to flee abroad with Cocceji.
- A dance teacher helps his ten well-bred student sisters when they leave home as a protest against their father's intended wedding. They form a café group called Die lustigen Weiber aus Wien (The merry Viennese girls).
- Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthralls the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
- Hollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.
- When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.
- A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
- Ignaz Fischbein works in a clothes store for women and thus has to deliver stuff to clients. One day he has to go to a fair where he meets Mizzi. Both get hypnotized by a magician and from thereon think that they are married...
- Along with his horse Boomerang, British captain William Ballard travels in South Africa to meet a native king, Karin, in the hope of arranging a treaty with him on behalf of the British government. Along the way, William meets his Scottish friend, Sandy McGregor, and Fritz van Roon, an intractable Dutch Boer who refuses to acknowledge British rule and seeks to undermine it. William also meets Katryn, a Dutch farmer's niece, and she falls in love with him after he rescues her from a savage native attack on her wagon. William is wounded during the melee and Katryn is mistakenly told that he has died. Although Katryn's uncle considers van Roon a coward, the Boer kidnaps her. William soon learns of van Roon's actions and, accompanied by a friendly native king, finds Katryn and rescues her. Van Roon is left to the mercy of the vicious veldt beasts.
- A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it, mainly because he's in love with her.
- Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
- Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
- An unemployed man who plays a concertina gets involved with a band of crooks and tries to frustrate a kidnapping, in this farcical caper.
- The title refers to a New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work including a divorced dancer, Hal Skelly, who has custody of his young son, Jackie Jordan. Olive Borden, is a nightclub dancer who witnesses a murder and takes refuge in the boarding house. Skelly and Borden fall in love while the former tries to keep his ex-wife from taking custody of their son, and Borden is hoping the killer doesn't catch up to her.
- Continental farce in which a just married doctor is embarrassed by the arrival from elsewhere of a son and is afraid to tell his wife.
- Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.