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- A man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love.
- Two young bill collectors, Joseph Merrill (Bryant Washburn) and Glenn Collins (Edward Everett Horton), must collect a debt owed by Timothy Perrin (Lionel Belmore), cement manufacturer and backer of a women's dress shop, or lose their jobs. Both are rebuffed, but Merrill's persistence wins him both Perrin's daughter Rhoda (Billie Dove) and the payment of the bill.
- 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.
- Accompanied by Thunder, the dog who rescued him from the firing line in France, World War veteran Ray Chambers goes to the mountains to recover from his war injuries. There he meets Martha Larned, a lonely mountain girl who lives with her little brother, Dick. Ray discovers that Martha is the sister of his dead buddy, Frank Larned, and he decides to stay and protect her from harassment by Jim Howard and his half-witted brother, Ez. When Dick is hurt in a fall, Ray goes for a doctor; Ez kills Jim and attacks Martha; and Thunder takes care of Ez. Ray and Martha then get married.
- When a stranger named Smith arrives at Don Luis Alvarado's Southern California ranch looking for work, he is hired as a hand. Smith and the Don's beautiful daughter, Senorita Carmelita, become attracted to each other until one night, when Carmelita surprises Smith as he and a gang of thieves are stealing her family's jewels. Smith is arrested, along with the thieves, but his true identity is established in court when he reveals that he is Michael Cochrane, a U.S. marshal who infiltrated the gang of thieves to obtain a conviction. He brings the gang to justice and marries Carmelita.
- After being wrongly accused of robbery and murder, a kind, gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.
- When he is jilted, Alan Remington, the son of a wealthy Washington politician, falls into a state of deep depression. On the advice of Professor Hollister, from whom he is purchasing a death ray, the elder Remington attempts to divert Alan by providing him with excitement. At this time, a gang of foreign agents, led by Darwin Kershaw, Remington's secretary, kidnap both the inventor and his daughter, Carolyn, and steal the death ray, but not before the resourceful girl has thrown the control key to the ray out of the window, where it lands in Alan's car. The conspirators attempt to regain the key, but they are mockingly foiled on several occasions by Alan, who thinks they are men hired by his father to jolt him out of his depression. Alan eventually realizes that the men are seriously trying to kill him, and he sets out to bring them to justice. Alan prevents the agents from destroying several naval gunboats, rescues the Hollisters, and rounds up the aliens, handing them over to the F. B. I.
- Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
- Young college graduate Edward Burgess, who prefers mechanics to the law, helps James Scarborough, an old inventor, market a revolutionary new invention. Edward, who is in love with Scarborough's niece, Barbara Richmond, further helps by keeping various lawyers away. Edward's Uncle Noah thinks his nephew has wasted his education, but Edward tallies up the cost of college and soon pays back the entire amount to Uncle Noah from the money he made with the invention.
- Discouraged with life, Michelo throws his daughter Lucia into the sea, but she falls into a fisherman's boat and is taken to a fishing village. Francisco kidnaps her and takes her to the headquarters of smuggler Dr. Chong Foo, located in a studio occupied by Pietro Savori, an unwilling partner. Chong Foo kills Savori to gain the girl for himself, but Bevani comes to the rescue and saves Lucia for her sweetheart, Guido.
- A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her and she is in trouble. When he gets there, he finds her dead. He sets out to track down the husband.
- When Joe Grantwood embezzles money, his half-brother Steve Martin takes the fall for it to spare his mother the embarrassment and shame, and leaves town to lead the life of a hobo. When he returns years later he discovers that his former sweetheart is now the widowed mother of a young son. He refuses a bribe offered by his stepbrother, and when Joe is murdered, Steve finds himself accused of it.
- When Cyrus Blake discovers that both his wife and her jewels are missing, he employs Jack Langley, a young lawyer, to go after them. Langley follows a trail of clues that leads him to a gang of yeggs headed by dapper Don Hollins, a personable thief. He also encounters and falls in love with Marion Folsom, whose real name later turns out to be Blake. Langley takes her for the wife of Cyrus Blake and, when he recovers the stolen jewels, he returns with her to the millionaire. While Cyrus is telling Langley that the beautiful girl is, in fact, his daughter, the real Mrs. Blake returns, having been kept prisoner by Hollins when she personally attempted to recover her jewelry.
- Unable to pay the extra fare, The Girl--returning home after failing to make good in the city--bundles her pet dog to look like a baby. On the train the dog is mistaken for a kidnapped baby, and The Girl is left with the real baby. The presence of the baby coupled with the extraordinary explanation causes The Girl's guardians to doubt her and the town to ring with gossip. The original kidnappers, who have followed her home, attempt to retrieve the baby, and The Girl, discovered fainting in the arms of The Man who befriended her on the train, is turned out of her home. The Man loses his job for shielding The Girl. Just as they are being marched to the outskirts of town to be tarred and feathered, the guardians arrive with the real parents to claim the baby. The Girl marries her protector.
- Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
- A prospector is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. His girlfriend knows who the real killer is, but she can't turn him it--it's her father.
- Harriet Lancaster is warned by her attorney against her extravagance. She is depending upon the arrival of an uncle whom she has never seen. Billy Lambert impersonates the uncle aided by the lawyer. The real uncle appears and is kept out of the way by two thugs hired by the lawyer. Harriet's father's lost fortune is found and Billy wins Harriet.
- In the Deep South, plantation owner Col. Webster, who is in dire financial straits, is offered a loan by wealthy neighbor Sam Logan on the condition that Webster's beautiful daughter, Madonna, marry him. Webster turns down the offer, thus angering Logan, who is further enraged by the fact that Madonna prefers the attentions of a stranger who proclaims himself an outcast from Virginia. After Logan abducts Madonna, she is rescued by the stranger, who is then arrested by the local sheriff for bank robbery and murder. It is then revealed that the stranger is a police official on an undercover operation to apprehend those responsible for counterfeiting and various robberies.
- Richard Talmadge, a book salesman, not only sells James Arlington, a capitalist, a volume of his firm's latest novel, but also talks himself into a position as private secretary to the millionaire. He falls in love with his daughter, whose hand is sought by Jose Borquez. The latter is scheming with a number of financiers to gain control of a corporation headed by Arlington. He plans a cruise and invites Arlington and his daughter to go along as his guests. At a ball prior to the departure of the party, Dick overhears a conspiracy in which Borquez plays a leading part. It is planned to keep Arlington away from New York so that the 'bulls' can wash him out financially. Richard is kidnapped, but after a series of adventures he not only overtakes the party but subjects Borquez to a severe punishment and wins the hand of Miss Arlington.
- A village vicar's daughter a wayward heir from a city siren.
- Robert Taylor has been romancing Blanche Mansfield but also seeing Grace Eldridge at the same time. When he tells Blanche that he is marrying Grace, she attacks him and he is rushed to the hospital with a knife wound.
- Tom Wallace lives with his uncle, John Higgins, and Tom is the sole heir to his uncle's wealth. Joe Watkins, the sheriff, and Higgins are life-long enemies, and when Higgins discovers that Tom is in love with Fern Watkins, he threatens to disinherit Tom. Marie and Miguel Garcia have purchased a farm from Higgins on the installment plan and Marie works hard to meet the payments, while Miguel spends his time in the town dance hall. Miguel wanting money for his revelries decides to rob Higgins. Higgins surprises Miguel in the act of robbing him, and Miguel shoots and kills Higgins and escapes. Cowboys find Higgins' dead body, and Tom is accused of the murder. The party come upon the dead body of Miguel, who had fallen off a cliff. The sheriff finds the money and tells Tom he is sorry he accused him. Fern pleads her love for Tom and her father relents.