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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
- An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
- Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.
- The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, 'Prairie Love'.
- A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money from him. If Antonio can not repay the debt Shylock is allowed to cut a pound of meat out of Antonio's body. That is the deal.
- A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- In Nigeria a jealous tin miner arouses the tribe against his rival.
- A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
- A convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share.
- The British Queen rouses the Iceni, but is defeated by the Romans.
- A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
- A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
- Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.
- A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.
- An orphaned bastard marries a reformed drunkard and is made a drug addict by his mother's lover.
- Melodrama of a boy taken from his family, adopted by a coachman,who grows up to be secretary to the minister of Justice, and to uncover dark plots, spearheaded by a femme fatale, that affected his own life and the lives of others.
- A yachtsman and his son get involved with smugglers.
- Marc Verdier, a former professor and devout catholic, lives in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives, with his crippled wife and Septime, his eccentric brother. On his part,Jean-Louis, Marc's son is in Paris where he continues his studies. Or so he thinks, for, in actual fact, he is the leader of a dangerous anarchist network hiding under the code name of Sirias...
- A fisherman saves a girl artist from the sea and falls in love with her.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- A cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.
- A Chinese merchant kills his daughter, kidnaps her seducer, and demands that the young man's mother choose either death for her son or her own daughter as payment for the disgrace to his family.
- Reconstruction of various battles which took place at Ypres.
- A sacked clerk inherits £3,000 a year, tries society, and returns to his working-class sweetheart.
- 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 hard ironmaster is blinded saving men in war and returns home to thwart a strike and win a Lady's daughter.
- A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.
- Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
- A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu.
- One of the first epic films made in Austria, as in some of the similar Cecil B De Mille entries, a fusion of a biblical story with a modern update.
- A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?
- A theatre patron unravels a girl's woolen vest.
- Tom Milburn, racing enthusiast experimenting with a new tire process, wants to marry Bess Stanton. However, her head is turned by a young man, Claude Roswell, driving a Rolls-Royce. The two men engage in a series of pranks culminating in Roswell's framing Tom for car theft. Tom's name is cleared, and so he is able to drive in the big race and test his experimental tires. The tires prove to be successful, and he wins the race, a manufacturer's royalty contract, and Bess.
- A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
- When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.
- In this 2nd episode, inventor F. N. West calls for the police in the middle of the night, saying china-men invaded his house before collapsing in a strange narcoleptic state. Has Fu-Manchu stolen his plans?
- A love triangle. Archduke Sixtus and his aide Count Hohenstein compete for the affections of the young ballet Gabi/Eliza (Dina Gralla). Supported by chance and a rumor, she rises to become the Prima Ballerina of the Vienna State Opera.
- A clerk wins the sweeps and weds a secretary, who has an affair with her ex-employer.
- A psychic expert hypnotises his cousin to shoot their rich uncle.