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- A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
- A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
- John loves Marian, engaged to unfaithful Robert. Marian breaks engagement after learning of Robert's infidelity. John goes to war, returns blinded. Robert dies, John and Marian accused of murder.
- A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
- Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing.
- An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
- Melodrama about a man who heads into the Northwest after he mistakenily believes he has killed another man and is followed there by his sister.
- An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
- A mechanic with the French Air Force, Vanesse sabotages the plane of Capt. Charles Nungesser, France's Flying Fiend, by placing Paul Willard's flying insignia in Nungesser's intake manifold. Paul is accused of the deed and sentenced to 20 years in a military prison. Six years later, the Willards, a wealthy American family, arrive in France, searching for Paul, who had run away to war. They interview Vanesse, who informs them that Paul died like a hero in the war. The Willards then meet Nungesser, who falls in love with Lucille, Paul's sister, and makes a silent resolution to arrange for Paul's pardon. This he does, and then goes to the United States to find Vanesse and to discover the truth about Paul's case. Nungesser discovers that Vanesse is planning to rob the air mail; with Paul's help, he captures Vanesse and recovers the loot. Vanesse dies from the effects of a plane crash; Paul is cleared of all guilt and marries his former sweetheart, Marie, with Nungesser and Lucille are swept to the heights on the wings of happiness.
- When Larry Pond (John Bowers) inherits an almost bankrupt lumber company from his father, he attempts to turn it into a successful operation. Meanwhile, Preston Tolley (Alan Hale), a competitor lumberman, hires a hoodlum to prevent Larry from getting his logs to the mill, but Larry beats the thug in a fight and, commandeering a train and a preacher, marries Alexia Newton (Marguerite De La Motte), Tolley's former fiancée, en route to the mill with his logs.
- A corps of noted physicians mistakes the buzzing of a bee for heart tremors and erroneously gives Jack Woodbury 3 months to live. Jack's avaricious friend, Hector, persuades his sweetheart, Violet, to marry Jack, intending to pick up an easy inheritance by marrying the Widow Woodbury. Jack fails to die at the appointed time, and Violet finds she has fallen in love with him.
- The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.
- Lilla Gravert falls into the clutches of a master blackmailer, Eric Helsingor.
- A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the husband and marries the wife. He gains power of attorney and uses it to cheat her out of her husband's property, which he promptly sells, then pockets the money and deserts her. With her son hot on his trail, Jean arrives in Arizona and marries an Indian princess. Then strange things begin to happen.
- A girl renounces her love to care for her insane father so that her mother may marry again.
- Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
- Martha Queed joins her lover Arnold Barry, who is vacationing in the mountains, and feigns a sprained ankle to see the inside of his cabin. They are noticed by David Boyd, a drunken-ruffian relative of the Queeds, who informs her domineering and puritanical father, Marvin, who forces Martha to marry Arnold to save the family's reputation. When David is found dead the next morning, evidence points to Arnold as the murderer. Martha disappears and is later discovered in a state of delirium by a deformed boy named Atlas. Upon hearing that Arnold is to be sentenced, Atlas rushes to the courtroom and confesses to the murder, then commits suicide. While Martha is convalescing, she and Arnold are married in the presence of her mother, who has left the cruel Marvin.
- Rich society flapper Aline Stockton, who has a reputation as a "fast" girl, is engaged to Robert Towers, but is having a fling with Henry Seton, a married man who, unknown to Aline, is having an affair with her friend Jenny. Complications ensue.
- On the night that Shirley Chamberlain's father announces her engagement to Billy Emerson, her childhood sweetheart, Don Calvert, a stranger from the city, is present. Learning that Billy is to spend a year establishing himself before the marriage, Calvert invites him to New York; and following a tearful farewell he sets out. Calvert arranges for Billy to become infatuated with Blanchita D'Acosta, a revue star, then summons Shirley to the city; but when Calvert undertakes a flirtation with Shirley, Blanchita becomes violently jealous. At a nightclub with Calvert, Shirley pretends to be gay and frivolous, shocking Billy and provoking his wrath. Drugged by Calvert, she is taken to his apartment; Billy arrives to find her defying him for stealing her jewels, rescues her, and takes her home.
- A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower. John Alden, After numerous adventures at sea and with Indians on land, John Alden is asked by his friend Myles Standish to seek for him the romantic favor of his secret beloved, Priscilla Mullens. But Priscilla has eyes for another: John Alden.
- Orphaned by the death of their mother, Nanette, a tightrope walker, and her brother, who acts as a trained ape, are left under the cruel guardianship of Sigmund, the strongman, who is also a rum runner. Nanette falls in love with young Lieutenant Allan Dale and sees him secretly. When she attends a masquerade ball with Allan, Sigmund discovers her escapade and gives her a severe beating. Allan and his friend Riley, ordered to San Pedro, come to see Nanette in her act and say goodbye. Her little brother accidentally exposes Sigmund's fraudulent weights, and in the ensuing struggle Allan and Riley are pitted against Sigmund and his men while Nanette and her brother flee to a tramper bound for San Pedro, which happens to be Sigmund's. Allan's Coast Guard cutter pursues them and drives them on the rocks. Nanette and her brother are attacked by Sigmund, who is killed by Nanette just as Allan arrives to rescue them.
- Herbert Landis, who secretly loves Anne Travers, is sent by her father to supervise construction of a bridge in Oregon. Anne insists that society man Hilary Fenton join the party, and as a result Landis broods in his cabin, which he shares with his foreman Ole Bergson. Ole, who claims to know all about love, disguises himself as well-known desperado Blackie Blanchette and kidnaps Anne, leaving a note urging Landis to "rescue" her; however, Ole is captured by the real Blackie. While a raging forest fire breaks out, Landis rides to the cabin and confronts Blackie; as the fire reaches the cabin, Blackie meets a fiery death while Landis and Anne stagger through the flames to the river. The other suitor, finding country customs too rough, departs, leaving Anne to discover her true love.
- Betty Hopkins, a hoydenish daughter of a southern eye specialist, refuses to marry Graves, her father's choice, and goes motor-boating with Billy Saunders, a city newspaper reporter; when the engine fails, they are forced to spend the night on the lake, and her indignant father assumes that the worst has occurred. Betty runs away to New York. There she achieves fame as a news writer, but while covering a spectacular chemical fire she is blinded by an explosion. Billy Saunders, returning from Havana, finds her in the hospital and proposes, but Betty declines because of her blindness; her father, however, performs a successful operation to restore her sight. Following a reconciliation between father and daughter, Hopkins consents to her marriage to Saunders.
- International crook Michael Lanyard, alias "The Lone Wolf," offers to recover stolen plans for a defense apparatus in exchange for asylum in the United States. He meets Lucy Shannon, a member of the gang, called "The Pack," suspected of having the stolen plans. Lucy assists Lanyard in obtaining the plans and later helps him escape from the other members of the gang. Together, in a daring airplane ride, they deliver the plans. Lanyard learns that Lucy is a Secret Service agent.