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- A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
- John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
- A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
- Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation that has never been done before, and the patient dies. He is charged with malpractice and manslaughter and his trial is national news, but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board will meet to decide whether or not to take his medical license away. Before they do, amateur pilot Cromwell decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by fur trapper Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where he is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim, who is now suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had. Mark talks Cromwell into performing the same operation, and this time it's a success--or would have been if Jim hadn't decided to fake it being a failure.
- Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
- A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.
- A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
- Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.
- A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
- A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame.
- Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
- A young man from a small town heads to New York, determined to become a radio star. He achieves his goal but in the process alienates those around him.
- A Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself.
- The city-bred daughter of a lumber magnate becomes engaged to the manager of one of her father's lumber camps, unaware that the manager has been stealing from her father's company. On a visit to the camp, the young woman becomes infatuated with the camp foreman and falls in love with him after he rescues her from a forest fire. Sometime after they are married, the foreman goes blind, the result of an encounter with a falling tree during the fire. Although he attempts to hide his blindness from his wife, she soon learns the truth. After giving birth to their baby, the young woman becomes bored and considers leaving the foreman for her former fiancé. Her husband uncovers the truth about the manager's theft and bests him in a fight atop a log jam. Finally, the foreman's sight is restored and he and his wife look to the future together.
- After his father is killed during a heroic rescue attempt, Danny Grogan, the son of a fireman on the Los Angeles fire department, joins the force in an attempt to follow in his father's footsteps. Fighting his first fire, Danny discovers that he is a coward and determines to overcome his fear of the flames. When Alice, the girl he loves, is trapped in a burning building, Danny finally becomes a man, rescuing her despite the dangers of heat and falling timber.
- Dick Manning, an assistant district attorney, who is on the track of a gang of murderers, is abducted while visiting his sweetheart, Helen Grant. Helen's police dog tracks down the abductors, and Helen goes to their den, passing herself off as Chicago Ann, a notorious female gangster who dresses in men's clothing. The leader of the gang is attracted to Helen, but his jealous sweetheart exposes her as a fraud. Helen is made prisoner, but she manages to escape with the help of a friendly gangster. Helen alerts the police, and the den is raided in time to save Dick's life.
- Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
- Helen Stover, the speed-loving daughter of an automobile manufacturer, decides to challenge rival manufacturer Stanley Merritt in a race. Although Mr. Stover is in deep financial trouble, he refuses to allow Helen to enter one of his new cars against Merritt. Determined to have her own way, Helen and mechanic Billy Brooks repair her old car so that Billy can drive in the race. When Merritt's men attack Billy and prevent him from driving, Helen takes his place and wins the race.
- Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants. Weeks later, Drek awakens in an English field-hospital and has amnesia. Since he had no papers on him when found, the hospital staff name him Private John Drake, and he is shipped back to England several months later. There, he is recognized by Bob Hayworth, who has been courting the widow Marbury. Despite the fact that Marbury had undertaken the mission on order to keep the Hayworth family-name from shame, Bob brings charges of battlefield desertion against Derek. The latter, not even knowing who he really is, has no defense against the charges.
- The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
- "Story is of a wealthy girl reforming the slums with speeches. The old man refuses to make the fire traps safe. A heroic fireman is thrown in, and there is a story of the old fireman, with the last three horses, dreaming of by-gone glory." ( Variety, 3 Aug 1927 ).
- Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known. Maizie, the hard-boiled gang-moll and sweetie of the hard-boiled gang-boss comes to her aid.
- There is the owner [Old Man Randolph] out to clean up on the big race, the difficulty in entering the horse, a riding jockey for a hero [Jackie] and a crook out to see that the old man's horse doesn't win. Added to this one there is the owner's crippled little daughter [Rose Randolph] whose operation depends upon the success of the race. Obstacles galore, suspense to the last minute and then the grand and glorious finish with hero dashing on to the track a second late, catching up with the riders, passing them and then on to a finish first.
- A young woman has many difficulties while trying to have a dam built on her property. Unknown to her and her father, a financier they know is secretly behind all of the problems she encounters.
- "Red" Dryden, son of a wealthy railroad magnate, who wishes to succeed independently, conceals his identity and takes a menial job on his father's line. He quickly proves himself to be extremely competent and arouses the enmity of a superintendent. The two men fight over a girl, and Red is transferred to a remote signal shack. The superintendent tampers with the warning signal at Red's shack, and the president's special thunders through, headed for a collision with another train. Red uses a radio device of his invention and alerts the engineer to the danger, preventing a disaster. Red's father learns of his son's heroism and appoints him to the presidency of the railroad.
- Terry O'Farrell pulls off several rescues in the course of the plot, whose locale is a steel mill, and Ann McGreagor uses her common sense to expose the villain's trickery and save the day for her sweetheart.
- Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
- When a public building made with inferior concrete collapses, motorcycle policeman Spencer "Speed" Haynes is sworn to apprehend those responsible. Speed's girl friend, Dorothy Thompson, is unaware that her father James, who oversaw the construction, has been an unwitting accomplice in the scheme of gang leader Richard Webster. With the help of absent-minded newspaper reporter "Peek" Harvey, Speed exposes Webster as the man responsible and saves James Thompson from ruin.
- After her father is murdered, Louise Nolan goes to work as a masked dancer in a sporting café called "The Cat's Paw" in order to support her crippled brother. When a girl called The Mouse is hurt, Smiley Bill Curtain, the sugardaddy who killed Louisa's father, calls in Poole, a physician who has been treating Louisa's brother. Poole arouses Curtain's jealousy, and Curtain orders the doctor to be forcibly detained, simultaneously announcing his own marriage to an unwilling and surprised Louisa. In a fit of anger, The Mouse kills Curtain; Poole escapes and takes Louisa with him, obtaining her promise to become his wife.
- Young cub reporter Jimmy Blayne helps railroad president Barlow best Hawell, an unscrupulous competitor in the stock market, and falls in love with the Barlow's daughter, Sylvia.
- A Kentucky colonel will lose the family homestead unless his prize racehorse, Racewild, wins the Kentucky Derby. A schemer who covets the homestead contrives to keep the horse out of the race, uncoupling the railroad car in which it is being shipped to Churchill Downs. The colonel's daughter and the jockey get the horse to the track, however, and the schemer drugs the jockey. The girl disguises herself in his colors and rides Race Wild to victory.