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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 young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Sheriff Pat goes to San Francisco, where he captures a pretty burglar attempting to rob his room. She agrees to give up her life of crime and, on a bet, Pat returns a brooch she stole. The lovely victim spots him-so does her husband
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.