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- German film directed by Valy Arnheim.
- Seaman Matt Peasley drifts into San Francisco with his pal Murphy and rescues Florrie Ricks, daughter of shipowner Cappy Ricks, from a pickpocket. Peasley and his friend are signed on one of Cappy's ships. When the ship's captain is killed by savages, Matt takes command and brings the ship to Samoa; but when the owner informs him that a new captain is arriving, Matt rebels, thrashes the newcomer into submission, and sails for San Francisco. Ricks is furious over his disobedience and enraged to learn that his daughter loves Matt. The old man sends Florrie on a cruise with Skinner, one of his officials, and the ship is stranded in a storm. Matt and Murphy rescue the party in a tug, and realizing Matt's worth, Cappy withdraws his opposition to his marriage to Florrie.
- The government is about to buy a secret formula for a powerful gas. The formula is divided into three parts and three agents start for a central point with each separate part, where it is to be tested. A band of conspirators attempt to secure the various parts of the formula by fair means or foul.
- Depicts Africans as cannibals and subhuman and white females as objects for sexual desires.
- Velma is unhappily married to millionaire roué Sam Patton. Aboard his yacht bound for the South Seas, Sam pays more attention to his guests than to his wife, and she flees when he attempts to force liquor on her. A sudden paralytic stroke renders him helpless, and she believes him dead. A storm comes up, and Velma is washed ashore on a desert isle. She is later joined by Lieut. Paul Mack, whose hydroplane has run out of fuel. They fall in love, but their idyll is broken when they are captured by a band of moonshiners. After suffering torture, they escape and go to Velma's home in California, where they find Sam alive--but a hopeless cripple. Velma feels obligated to her husband and refuses to see Paul again. Realizing the wrong he has done his wife, Sam violates his doctor's orders by taking an overdose of whiskey, and he dies. Velma is free to marry Paul, and together they take an airplane trip back to the scene of their first meeting.
- A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the mining country, with a Snidely Whiplash villain performing dastardly deeds, a spunky and gritty Polly Pureheart heroine and a brave Handsome Harry hero...and filled with action, romance, adventure, bravery...and perils.
- A collection of shots showing the acts of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show.
- Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.
- A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.
- The Women's Political League in a Midwestern city selects Josephine Gerson as its candidate for mayor because of her stylishness and good looks. Her fiancé, political leader Jim Bradley, backs his friend, Freddy Bleeker, as the opposition candidate. When Josephine overhears Freddy promising political appointments, she breaks her engagement and delivers a notable speech, winning the men of the town to her side. However, the women vote against her and Freddie wins by a narrow margin. Jim disassociates himself from his cronies, and the new appointments are all filled by women. Now an advocate for honest politics, Jim is reunited with Josephine, who accepts her "defeat" with grace.
- Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- A cowpoke helps a pretty schoolteacher clean up a lawless town.
- Bob Cross is a newspaper reporter who, in trailing "Painter" Paul, a notorious crook, gets wind of a plot to kidnap Martha Steadman. The girl is grandniece of a millionaire named Biddle. Bob invades the Biddle premises, just in time to discover the body of Mr. Biddle after he has been murdered by his business associate, named Jules Fernol, who is in reality leader of a gang of crooks. Fernol has embezzled Martha's fortune and is trying to cover up one crime by committing another. Bob is so like the dead man's son, Dick Biddle, that the gangsters charge the crime to him, thinking to get him out of the way. Bob, realizing that he has been mistaken for another, allows himself to be sent to jail, but later, through collusion with the police, makes a getaway. He then begins an effort to rescue the girl from her danger and find the real murderer of Biddle.
- John Wesley Pringle, adventurer at large, returns home after making his strike and finds his old girl friend, Stella, engaged to Christopher Foy, who is running for sheriff. Pringle foils an attempt by incumbent sheriff Matt Lisner to kill Foy, but when Foy is accused of a murder, Pringle, in a clever ruse, captures Foy, holds the posse at gunpoint, and then releases him, explaining his motive. Lisner is summarily dealt with, and Pringle returns to his mine.
- Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden scandalizes his small town and especially the proper Judge Pike. But through the love of young Ariel Taber, Joe shows the town who the real scoundrel is.
- Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is her brother but who is really a husband who has deserted his wife and two children.
- When Flash's master, Clark Moran, goes out of town on business, Flash, who is part wolf, is falsely accused of sheepicide and sentenced to death by local ranchers. Escaping into the mountains, Flash finds a mate but has to leave his new companion to rescue his master's love, Betty, who has been kidnapped by the real sheep killer, Luther Nash.
- While preparing to enter a theological seminary, Buck aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for two years, where he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
- Rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
- A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
- The happy and miserable life of Mozart
- 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.
- A young woman tries to find out the reason behind why all of her female ancestors have been killed before they reach their 21st birthday.
- A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
- Following a burlesque prologue showing Eve in the Garden of Eden eating the forbidden fruit, Mrs. Orrin, a wealthy, selfish, impulsive widow, contrives to keep her self-sacrificing daughter in her service by marrying her off to Henry, the son of Mrs. Orrin's best friend. The mother's doctor falls in love with Eve, however, and in face of all opposition, he marries her.
- This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that he is the master of his own fate and believes in neither God nor the Devil. Needless to say, he pays mightily for this hubris. His family is reduced to poverty, his friends desert him, and things turn from bad to worse until his childhood faith is restored.
- When an Indian Maharaja, infected by Western culture, surrenders to emancipation, it is not without consequences. He has to enter a convent because his wife, a European, threw herself into the sea in her madness. She had given herself to an enemy Maharajah.
- Orphaned Molly is heir to a ranch and mine and falls under the influence of saloon-owner Plimsoll, who schemes to deprive her of the inheritance. Sandy Brouke and his pals, Soda Water Manning and Mormon Peters, wander off the range and champion the girl's interests. Sandy falls in love with the girl. The partners succeed in getting the mine from the conspirators and working it themselves while sending Molly off to school. Plimsoll frames Sandy and his men, however, and she returns to find them in jail. Through Molly's efforts Sandy is released, and ultimately the crooks are defeated.
- Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
- In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother. The jealousy of the two young rivals results in a duel in which Ramón is seriously wounded. María promises to marry Ramón on the condition that Pancho's life is spared, but Ramón breaks his promise and has Pancho arrested. A counterrevolution occurs, and Pancho escapes. He seeks out Ramón and disarms him in a duel, but spares his life. Touched by his rival's generosity, Ramón helps Pancho and María escape to safety and is himself killed.
- The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to the Marquis, who decides to allocate old Stamply with the use of a corner of his manor. Hélène de la Seiglière, the Marquis's daughter, takes care of the old man. But this one, devastated by death of his son, buried under the ice of the Berezina, dies. Some time later, three persons come to live in the manor: M. de Paubert, his son Raoul, and Destournelles, a crafty, ruthlessly ambitious lawyer. De Paubert hopes to marry his son to Hélène de la Seiglière and might well achieve his aim but for the unexpected return of Bernard Stamply, who has escaped death miraculously. He gets to know Helène and the two young people fall in love with each other.
- Hugh Coleman, a poor young man, secretly marries Minna Hart, the daughter of a wealthy banker. Hugh attempts to break the news to Minna's father gently by appearing to ask permission to marry her, but before the truth is revealed, the father staunchly forbids the marriage of his Jewish daughter to a Gentile of no means. When Minna's father is murdered, Hugh becomes the prime suspect.
- The priest wife dies in childbirth, and the child also dies while awful weather is thundering outside, which also makes a ship go down, with only a three-month-old baby surviving. Felix grows up like a heaven-sent blessing.
- "A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.
- Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign. Eric nearly kills Grant with his bare hands before the look of horror on Floria's face brings him back to his senses. Eric nurses Grant back to health. Grant, won over by Eric's goodness, reforms. Eric agrees to sell the land to Heatherton in order to establish the music conservatory that Floria has told him that she always wanted.
- 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.
- Three part melodrama later reworked in the 50s by Matarazzo: A count has an illegitimate child with a woman who his elderly mother tries to separate him from, and who later retreats into a convent.
- Horace Parker is a wealthy young man who is exceedingly selfish and self-centered. He is engaged to Minnie Talbotr who has discovered his selfishness and she is on the brink of calling off the engagement. On Christmas Eve, a messenger from Mars comes to Earth to show Parker the error of his ways.
- Jacqueline, an orphaned daughter of a famous Russian dancer, has been raised by a French woman who runs a cheap dancing school.
- Rebelling against a forced engagement to Schuyler, Victoria falls in love with young attorney David Courtney and marries him. At first they are happy, but when David is drawn into political corruption and accepts the attentions of other women, she tries to compete with them, then denounces him. When he runs for U.S. Senator, she is nominated as a dark-horse candidate against him and wins. He is indicted for bribery during the campaign and while in prison is redeemed through her visits. In each crisis Victoria dreams of the women of corresponding ages: the stone age, the age of chivalry, Amazons and their supremacy over men, the life of debauchery in the Roman era, and the dawn of Christianity in her dream of David as Constantine and herself as a Christian slave who converts the pagan world.