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- 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.
- An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
- Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
- Bud Parsons fails in an attempt to steal a wallet from a well-dressed man, but the man takes him to a club and offers him a chance to make some easy money. He must pretend to be the son of Mrs. Hale, that disappeared when a very young child. Bud has a qualm or two but accepts as he sees this as a chance to earn the money to entertain Blanche Amory, a worthless show-girl, who charges a lot of money when being entertained. He and his pal, "Red," go to the Hale mansion and begin the deception. Mrs. Hale's daughter, Ellen, immediately attracts his attention, even though it is not considered proper for a brother to start hitting on his sister, even if the brother is an impostor. Lewis, the man who hired Bud to pose as William Hale, claims the $20,000 reward for the return of the son, but Bud and "Red' rob him after he cashes the reward check at the bank. Meanwhile, from out of nowhere, the real William Hale shows up but Lewis has him tossed in jail. Things eventually work out to everybody's satisfaction, with Lewis being the notable exception.
- An experiment in death penalty. A man is accused of a murder, that never happened. Complications arise.
- Depiction of stratified Colombia society fuses a melodramatic novel with documentary detail: A country landlord thwarts his daughter's love for their farm overseer and his college son's love for the daughter of a poor city cobbler.
- John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a castle in Laupheim. He pursues what appears to be a ghost of a beautiful woman but he learns that the so-called ghost is the estranged wife, Countess von Pless (Madge Bellamy), of the castle's previous owner, the cruel Count von Pless (Stuart Holmes). A romance blossoms despite the efforts of Count von Pless to convict Smart of obstructing justice.
- When Wall Street investor John Trevor faces bankruptcy, his future son-in-law, George Lathrop, promises to lend him $100,000. However, George has squandered his own inheritance and obtains the money by stealing negotiable securities from wealthy Sam Millington, whose son, Jack, has entrusted him with the keys to the family safe. Meanwhile, John's daughter, Alice, suspects George of having an affair with his ward, Clarita Ortega, and breaks their engagement. Jack Millington discovers both the theft and the reason for it but decides to clear George. He then lends John the necessary capital, buys back the stolen securities, and, by faking an automobile accident, convinces his father that the securities have been in his possession the entire time. George realizes that he loves Clarita, who is actually John's long-lost daughter. Alice finds happiness with an Italian count.
- The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
- Brothers Österman at Svanö, after several years of bachelor life, say they need a housekeeper and announce the matter in the newspaper.
- Walter Grenham, who has a weakness for women, persuades an old friend, Janet Livingstone, to marry him, promising to remain faithful to her. They then prepare to embark for New York in the company of a young married couple, Betty and Johnny King, but, by misadventure, Betty and Walter are left behind in Havana. Walter takes a plane to Key West, where he overtakes Janet and explains everything to her satisfaction; Betty goes to New York and finds her husband in the arms of a chorus girl. With great difficulty and misunderstanding, Walter reunites the Kings and finally prepares to settle down to domestic bliss.
- Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his place, Maxine, falls in love with him, but Tony is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Una, although Una is now a "party girl" back in London and has forgotten about Tony. However, Tony comes into an unexpected inheritance, along with a title, and returns to London for Una. Although disappointed with Una's current lifestyle, he asks her to marry him despite her "indiscretions". However, the night before they are to be married Una confesses a deep, dark secret to Tony that could change their lives forever.
- After his wife dies, Roland Keene finds work as an actor with a road company, provided that he give up cards and liquor. The troupe has a poor season, and Keene is stranded in a mining town in Placer Valley. He meets Sal Flood there, and they are soon engaged, bringing west Keene's young son, Benny, for the wedding. Sal leaves the operation of her saloon to Keene, devoting herself to winning Benny's love and affection. Keene soon resumes his heavy drinking and is constantly cheated at cards by a professional gambler named Osner. Despite the interference of Steve McGregor, a mining superintendent, Keene continues to lose heavily to Osner; and, eventually, in order to pay off his IOU's, Keene is forced by the gambler to help him rob the saloon safe of McGregor's mining payroll. Benny sees his father steal the money and is injured by the blast from the dynamite used by Osner to blow the safe; but Benny still has faith in his father and, the following day, lies to the sheriff rather than implicate Keene. Keene is overcome with remorse for Benny's injuries and sets out to bring back the stolen gold. He tracks down Osner, and the two fight in the car of an aerial tramway. Osner falls to his death, Keene returns the gold, and he is pardoned and happily reunited with his family.
- Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner, and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
- In 1871 Chicago an undercover detective gets a job as a porter in a somewhat disreputable saloon in order to get information on a stolen painting, which he believes will be fenced there by the thieves. He soon falls in love with the saloon owner's daughter, who believes him to be just a porter. Soon his undercover work puts him and the girl in danger, from both the criminals who stole the painting and the infamous Chicago Fire of 1871.
- After her husband is reported lost at sea, Beth Wylie supports herself and her little daughter with the proceeds of a small interior decorating shop. Beth falls in love with Tom Benham, an insurance agent, and gives his bored mother a job as her assistant. Attempting to sell insurance to gruff Commodore Gordon, Beth's uncle, Tom announces his intention to marry her. The commodore disapproves and sets out to ruin Beth's business. Beth's husband turns out to be alive, engaged in smuggling Chinese into California on a schooner. Wylie kidnaps his wife and sets sail, but the commodore and Tom give chase in a tug. In a thrilling battle, Wylie is killed and Beth is rescued. Tom sells the commodore life insurance and obtains his blessing for a marriage to Beth.
- John Wayne and Sam Barr, two New York City financiers, plan to merge their holdings by arranging the marriage of John's daughter, Sylvia, to Sam's son, Richard. Although Sylvia refuses, Sam is wise in the ways of women and decides that the best way to change her mind is to oppose Richard as a suitor. Sylvia immediately runs away to Arizona, where she arranges to meet Richard. To pass the time, Sylvia and her maid offer manicures sat the barbershop. When Tom Long, a local rancher, discovers that all his men are getting manicured, he rides into town to put a stop to the practice. At the barbershop, Tom falls in love with Sylvia after defending her from the advances of a local tough. Richard arrives from the East, closely followed by a telegram from John, which offers a reward for the prevention of the marriage. Believing that Sylvia is truly in love with Richard, Tom helps them elude the sheriff. However, when he accidentally learns that Sylvia is marrying Richard only to spite her father, Tom pursues the train carrying the eloping couple, jumps aboard from his galloping horse, and declares his love for Sylvia. She realizes that she truly loves Tom and agrees to marry him.
- A mysterious rider, known as Whitehorse Cactus, steals from the dishonest water company in order to help ranchers who have been cheated out of their water rights by its crooked agents. This elusive champion is, in actuality, Jack Hayes, whose vendetta began when his father was brutally slain by one of the hired gunmen of John Henderton, the owner of the water company. Riding in the hills one day, Jack stops the runaway horse of Henderton's daughter, Belle, who was his childhood sweetheart. Jack kills one of Henderton's hired gunmen, is tried and convicted, but escapes with the help of Panhandle George. Henderton is shot, and Jack is accused of the murder. Belle captures him, only to be told by the sheriff that she has the wrong man. Belle and Jack are reconciled, and soon they get married.
- Rich clubman Kirk Rainsford attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except little Peggy, Marjorie's kid sister. Marjorie pleads with Kirk to save the child, but he lacks the courage, and Randolph Sherman, Kirk's rival for Marjorie's affections, plays the hero. Kirk's public display of cowardice makes his father disown him and Marjorie reject him; she soon marries Sherman. Kirk drifts to the South Seas, eventually landing in Manila, where he becomes a derelict. When fellow drifter Lillie is roughly handled in a bar, Kirk assists her and she expresses appreciation for his bravery and her faith in him effects his regeneration. Kirk and Lillie journey to the interior and obtain work on a plantation recently purchased by Randolph Sherman. During a native uprising, Sherman is killed and Kirk saves Marjorie from certain death. Marjorie still loves him and asks him to stay, but Kirk decides to go off with Lillie, whose love for him has finally made him a man.
- Reggie Dillingham, a socialite who has squandered all but $70,000 of his million-dollar inheritance, is upbraided by his attorney, who bets the young man that he cannot support himself for six months. The attorney invests the remaining funds while Reggie sets out to find a job. He fails at his first few attempts, but when he photographs newspaper publisher and political boss Clint Taggart in a compromising situation, Reggie is hired as managing editor to maintain his silence. Immediately after taking charge, Reggie liberalizes the paper's editorial policy and falls in love with Clint's secretary, Mary Ryan. With Mary's help, Reggie discovers that their boss is involved in a bootlegging operation and uses Clint's own paper to expose him. Despite threats from his employer, Reggie refuses to resign, and employs the help of his loyal staff in resisting the bootlegger's thugs. Following Clint's arrest, Reggie is informed by his lawyer that his money has been doubled through a fortunate investment.
- Judith marries Robert Stanley and for a time, all her dreams of happiness are realized. As the months go by, however, she is increasingly disturbed by his stubborn adherence to annoying habits, wrong beliefs, and small faults, such as leaving the windows open when he is cold and driving an open car in the rain when he feels ill. On one of these aquatic trips, Robert's car breaks down and he is picked up by Bess Carlysle, an old girl friend, who insists that they go to her apartment to dry his clothes. Following a whiskey and a hot bath for his feet, Robert is dancing with Bess when Judith walks in on them. She suspects the worst, and Robert is too stubborn to explain. Judith secures an interlocutory divorce and travels to Europe, while Robert becomes engaged to Bess, more out of pique than love. Shortly before the divorce becomes final, Judith changes her mind and returns to the United States. After a frantic trip by car and boat, she arrives just in time to prevent Tom's remarriage, and they are reconciled.
- A young wife tries to protect her sister-in-law from a blackmailer from her own sordid past. She soon finds herself charged with his murder.
- Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speeding and sentenced to 10 days in jail. He is given the option to work out his sentence and becomes a lifeguard at a public beach, where he rescues a mysterious woman from several perils. The woman, with whom he begins a romance, turns out to be a famous film actress caught up in the frenetic antics of a publicity campaign.
- Erhard Malm is studying to become an engineer, but support himself as a tutor at Consul Frendin. The consul's daughter Ruth and Erhard get interested in each other.
- A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
- Crooked Dave Ormsby gets together with a corrupt judge and sheriff and they conspire to kill Bruce Martin, the heir to a large estate, and take his ranch. They capture Bruce and beat him severely, tie him to a horse and drive it deep into the woods. Orrmsby, who is in love with Bruce's girlfriend, then kidnaps her and takes her to an isolated cabin. Bruce manages to get himself free and sets out to find the men who tried to kill him and kidnapped his woman.
- During the production of a motion picture, Neil Keenly, the film's star, is killed in an automobile accident. Harrison Halliday, the living image of the dead actor, takes his place, and the film is completed. The deception succeeds, and the public is kept in ignorance of Neil's demise. Harrison falls in love with Sheila Kane, the widow of the late actor, but their happiness is threatened when Cora Forman, a member of the film company at the time of Neil's death, blackmails Harrison. This threat is averted, however, and Harrison gracefully assumes another man's wife and fame.
- At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up.
- Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement after another, the elder Gaylord sends his son to the Basque region of France, believing that the women there will accept attentions only from their own people. Almost immediately, a local girl, Yvonne Hurja becomes infatuated with Richard, whom she sees as being able to help her break free from the unwanted attention of local guardsman Julio. A rivalry grows between Richard and Julio.
- The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it for him, in the land of pawn trees where men of all nations gather; some seeking vengeance and some forgiveness.
- Unsucessful writer Théodore Larue is mistakenly believed to be drowned during a vacation at the sea with his wife Lucie. The latter persuades him to play dead because the incident increases his popularity. Théodore pretends he is his brother Anselme. Trouble begins when the actual brother unexpectedly returns from Madagascar.
- Midnight Molly is trapped by police as she attempts to steal a painting. She escapes the detectives, but, while still on the lam, she is hit by a car, taken to a hospital, and erroneously identified as Mrs. John Warren, the wife of a prominent mayoralty candidate. Since the real Mrs. Warren, who is the exact image of Molly, has just run off with George Calvin, Warren is glad to identify Molly as his wife and take her home with him. Molly recovers and continues to impersonate Warren's wife, protecting him from the political consequences of a divorce scandal. Calvin learns of the deception, returns to the city, and attempts to blackmail Warren. He is not successful, but Detective Daley, who also suspects Molly's alias, requests her fingerprints. Forcing the real Mrs. Warren to return for fingerprinting, Molly is cleared of suspicion, and Daley closes the case. Mrs. Warren and Calvin are killed in an automobile accident, and Molly and Warren are free to marry.
- A Spanish grandee visits England and falls in love with a beautiful young English girl who refuses his advances.
- When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South Seas, where he gets a job on a plantation. The father sends an agent to the plantation to try to buy off his son's bride, but she won't go for it. Not long afterwards she gives birth to a son, and unfortunately her husband soon dies. She returns to San Francisco with her newborn son, determined to have her vengeance on her former father=in-law.
- After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother. Daisy is in love with George Tevis, the nephew of the British consul, but she is disappointed by George when he is persuaded by his uncle to renounce her in favor of a diplomatic career. Lee Tai, a sinister mandarin, kidnaps Daisy with the aid of drugs and hypnotism; she is rescued by Harry Anderson, a rotter whom she soon marries out of desperation. When Anderson discovers that Daisy is an ostracized half caste, he bitterly regrets their marriage. Not knowing of the marriage, George searches her out, only to find her a married woman. Anderson forbids George to see Daisy again, but George defies the ban and meets her at her house to say good-by. Before he can shoot George, Anderson drinks wine poisoned by Lee Tai--and dies. Tevis takes Daisy back to England, and Lee Tai is executed according to Chinese law.
- Famous organist Arnold Graham returns to the US from a lengthy tour of Europe to find that his girlfriend Madeline has been forced by her family to marry Count Zara, a rich but brutal nobleman who beats her and carries on an affair with his cousin, Pauline Zara. He convinces Pauline to take Madeline's young daughter to England, then report her death of diphtheria. Arnold decides to take his revenge on the count, but matters don't turn out quite the way he wanted.