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- Babe Dugan, star player of the Angels baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any of his teammates. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes concerned over his untidiness. Later, Babe accidentally strikes Vernie with a ball during a game and calls her to apologize. Meanwhile, his pal, Peewee, falls in love with Vernie's friend, Georgia. On an outing to an amusement park, a roller coaster throws Vernie into Babe's arms. Soon they are engaged and Vernie plans to reform him. Tensions rise when the team presents the couple with a set of hand-decorated spittoons, and a lovers' quarrel ensues. However, Babe takes the reform idea seriously, despite its negative effect on his game. At a crucial moment in the ninth inning, Vernie relents and throws him a plug of tobacco, prompting the revitalized Babe to hit a home run.
- A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
- College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when tragedy strikes after he pays an innocent visit to a woman.
- Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, he must break off his forthcoming wedding to his childhood sweetheart Priscilla by any means necessary--including murder.
- A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
- A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
- "Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
- Fannie, a performer in a music hall act, teams up with Johnny, an MC and a gambler, and becomes a success. They marry, and a few years later they have a child. One night while they are playing in a club in New York City, two Broadway produces catch their act and offer Fannie a job in their latest show, but they don't have a place for Johnny. Fannie turns down their offer, and soon things take a downturn for the pair, both career-wise and personal-wise, and when Johnny loses all their money gambling, things come to a head.
- Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
- Julian, a Spanish fisherman in the Canary Islands, has a younger brother Charles who tends to get in trouble with women. When Charles sets his sights on a wealthy aristocratic woman, Julian pretends to be in love with her in order to protect his brother, but it's not long before he realizes he actually is in love with her.
- Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
- Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men.
- Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
- A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means that men are constantly after her. She rejects them all, leading some to believe that she is a lesbian. To stop those rumors, she begins a platonic relationship with a young writer, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
- A newly-married couple, scions of local nobility, are living in a castle. There is a huge portrait of "The Lady in Ermine" hanging on a wall. The legend of the painting tells of the Countess' grandmother who gave her honor that the life of her husband might be spared. Upon his safe return, the husband killed his wife for her act. Soon, an Austrian general and his staff are occupying the castle, and the general becomes infatuated with the Countess. He questions the staff and learns of the legend. The Count tries to escape, is caught, and is about to be executed as a spy. The General makes the same proposition to the Countess that another general had made to her grandmother. The Countess is soon seen walking down the corridor to the General's room...clad only in an Ermine coat.
- A shy botany student is infatuated with a girl but gives her the wrong impression of what he is really like.
- Guy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is Mary, a girl left destitute by her father's death. Watson is so good at his new calling that a band of followers build a tabernacle for him to preach his sermons. But when one of his former performers, "Ma" Parker dies, Guy prays honestly for the first time in his life, and then tells the congregation of his lying past. Mary, it turns out, is also a crook, and they go to jail with the intent of getting married when they are released, and starting a new honest life.
- A British Army officer finds his wife in another mans room, so he kills him. Although she is innocent of any wrongdoing, the wife claims to be guilty in order to save her husband from a death sentence.
- Jack Jessup serves as shotgun rider on a frontier stagecoach. Travelling through Indian territory, he is forced to keep both eyes open and his finger on the trigger.
- Sari, daughter of Count Thurzo, and son of a shoemaker Franz Pless, both Hungarian, fall in love while they are in the USA. They are about to get married when Sari is called back to Europe, and when Franz goes after her he learns that he must serve three years of military service. Fate makes him serve under the orders of Baron von Heimberg, whom Count Thurzo wants his daughter to marry. That Baron, although already in a relationship with Ilona, wants that marriage and makes Franz his orderly. The Count's announcement of marriage makes Franz assault the Baron, and he is banned as a result. But Ilona has a few tricks up her sleeve.
- Framed for a stagecoach accident, John Bishop is jailed. Bob Leady helps break him out and in return John heads for Sonora to look for Leady's missing son. He finds him when he joins Monte black's gang, a gang from which no member has ever escaped alive.
- Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.
- Finding himself discharged from a shoe store job and the girl of his affections, May, Johnny gets away from it all by becoming a tour guide for a group of travelers visiting Eygpt. Once there, he is conned into changing places with an itinerant sheik. Johnny finds that along with the colorful costumes, comes some property, including a fat, awful wife. Desperately trying to ditch his new status and responsibilities, he finds out that May is now in the hands of a bandit horde in the desert. He locates her and by cover of a sandstorm, escapes with her.
- Convoy is a lost 1927 silent World War I drama starring Lowell Sherman and Dorothy Mackaill and released through First National Pictures.
- While in Italy, the Duke of Chatsfield secretly marries a peasant girl, and they have a child, Francis. The boy's parents die after having separated, and he is reared in a monastery. When he is 20, Francis takes his final vows, while his uncle, a duke, learns that Francis is the true heir to the dukedom; a dispensation is granted by the Pope, and the boy assumes the title. In London, Mario, a penniless novice, masquerading as Baron Giordano, hopes to marry Monica, Francis' beautiful cousin; and to eliminate his rival he engages Dolores, his ex-mistress, to ensnare Francis. He succumbs to her wiles but on a visit to his relatives falls in love with Monica, and they become engaged; Monica, however, breaks off the betrothal after finding that Dolores loves him. Francis returns, embittered, to London and embarks on a series of flirtations; but learning of Monica's acceptance of Mario's offer, he returns to the monastery. Dolores tells Monica of the Baron's scheming, kills herself, and the lovers are reconciled.