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- Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children. The former head of the orphanage, Peter Lavin, has been married for several years at this point, has two children, and is living in Montreal when he is placed under arrest and brought to stand trial. While he maintains his innocence, the boy he favoured durring those years, Kevin Reevey, as well as many others, are faced with revisiting the abuse and trauma they sustained as children.
- A young woman with a difficult past is sentenced for a murder she didn't commit, but revealing the truth could hurt people she loves.
- A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment.
- Rae Lane entices her workaholic boss to come to a nudist camp in the hopes of winning his heart. Things go swimmingly, until attractive and pert blond Barbara captures his attention.
- Ottilie Van Zandt, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy colonel, loves the gardener's son, Richard Wayne, but her family forces her to marry her cousin Claude. Richard leaves before the wedding, vowing to return wealthy and marry Ottilie, but since she is already married when he does return, he impulsively marries Alice Tremaine. Years later, to save lonely widow Ottilie from being evicted, Richard purchases her house at auction and gives it to her. Two generations later, Ottilie, the granddaughter of the first Ottilie, lives in the old house and teaches dancing. Richard Wayne, grandson of the first Richard, is a wealthy young man of the jazz set who thinks of Ottilie as a little old-fashioned but has affection for her. Their friendship culminates in a romance and marriage that began years before with their grandparents.
- Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
- Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart (Hunter) and Orchid McGonigle (Bow), attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness. Eventually, they escape the hardships of gang life and find happiness together.
- An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
- Milt Kimberlin (Bowers) falls in love with an marries a cabaret dancer, Rosalie (Bow) but looses all his money. Rosalie dies. Years later, a wealthy Milt marries Madeline (Rich), but wishes he could have the same happiness that he did with his former marriage. Madeline leaves him over a forged letter that "proves" Rosalie's infidelity. After the letter's author, a blackmailer, is unmasked, Milt is reunited with Madeline and the two find new happiness with each other.
- In this vintage "adults-only" exploitationer, whiskey and fast cars lead an innocent young girl into a life of prostitution and murder.
- A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.
- A young man (Rawlinson) spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl (Bow). She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by a letcherous Adventurer (Williams). The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards niagra falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart. Their mode of rescue, a rope ladder hung from an airplane. They are reconciled and the letcher gets his dues.
- Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte (Harris) is in love with Jim Moran (King), a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning (Mack). Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder. It is only at the last minute that John is saved from the electric chair by Suzie's confession of the truth.
- Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegate Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam (Bow), the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troups are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.
- Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married.
- Sponsored by the National Farmers Union, "They Call It All-States" documents a summer camp for 250 farm kids from all over the US who are shown working, playing, having a folk dance, and engaging in other summer-camp-like activities. Produced in the late 1950's, it is in color and contains narration (no live sound).
- In this instructional film, the viewer is explained how good nutrition, exercise and affection builds strong and healthy children. Examples of such children, frolicking about in an either nude or semi-nude state, are shown, and are described in the same manner as race horses.
- A young newlywed couple try to decide whether to live the high life or have their child.
- Austin Starfield (Louis) has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside (Rich). He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar (Lytell) to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune. Leon marries her, but falls genuinely in love with her. He breaks off ties to Starfield. Meanwhile, Leon's old girlfriend (Bow) arives on the scene and, out of jealousy, tells Eve that Leon married her only for her money. Starfield influences the workers at Eve's mill into labor desputes and gets his henchmen to start a riot. Leon exposes the conspiracy and Starfield is aprehended by the authorities. Leon and Eve are reconciled.
- A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
- Nellie and Jane, two fifteen-year-old girls, are the pupils of Rosy Rossisky. They are employed in a department store owned by Henry Burden. Nellie is employed at the cashier's desk, while Jane is a salesgirl. Jane, by sending the purses she steals to Nellie through the pneumatic tube escapes detection. Walker, department manager, is accused by a customer of having stolen her purse. Jane has taken this purse and has sent it to Nellie via the tube. Walker takes the angry woman to Burden's office. The owner is inclined to believe the department manager guilty. Grace, Burden's daughter, loves Walker and determines to investigate. Suspecting Jane, she leaves her diamond pendant on the counter. The salesgirl falls into the trap. That night, the two students of the female Fagin turn all their proceeds over to their teacher. They keep the pendant, however. Jane wears it to a motion picture theater. Grace sees the piece of jewelry on the girl's neck and knows she has found the perpetrators of the thefts. The following day, she takes Nellie's place at the tube. A few hours later she receives a purse that has been stolen by Jane and sent up. The two girls are taken to Burden's office, where they confess their guilt. Jane tells of their schooling in crime by Rosy Rossisky. Walker, Grace, the store superintendent and an officer accompany the girls to their home. The female Fagin suspects the girls of having betrayed her. Turning the key in the door, she attempts to throttle Jane. Nellie opens the door and Walker, the superintendent, and the policeman overpower the woman after a hard struggle. Repenting of his unjust suspicion concerning the department manager. Burden gives his consent to Walker's marriage with Grace. The two take Jane and Nellie into their home where, freed from the influence of the female Fagin, their redemption is affected.
- The story of the play deals with the vain attempt of a very wealthy scientist to reform his worthless son. One day, after Roy's father had been particularly engrossed in his work, and had endeavored at dinner to interest Roy in a discussion of important points, the boy excused himself and made his way to his club, where he had the usual hilarious evening. At daybreak, he managed to get as far as his car, which had been waiting in front of the club, and when he reached home, his chauffeur helped him up to the steps and opened the door. Roy quietly crept to his room without disturbing anyone, but when he found his easy chair, the excessive dissipation made itself felt, and he dropped off into a deep sleep, which became troubled with most unusual dreams. In these dreams Roy saw the death of his father, due to an explosion in his laboratory, the reading of his will, which left his vast estate to the various members of the family, but with the stipulation in the son's case that he, Roy, should travel over the country and investigate conditions, so that he might know a little more about true life and find something more important to think of than wasting his time in idle dissipation. In the travels which followed, allegorical tableaux are brought out showing in a most forceful manner, the abuses of child labor, the underpaid women workers on finery for the rich, the deadly results of the speed mania, the abuses of the railroad monopolies, the curse of drink, the methods of the wire tappers, who prey on those who hope to win fortunes through race track gambling, etc. Finally Roy comes to a feeling of sincere sympathy with the poor, and when he attends a great banquet of the magnates, and this feast is interrupted by a shower of missiles through the windows, the party rushes to one large window, and there behold the great city of New York in flames. The mob then rushes in to demand a place at the table, and Roy takes his place with them, against the trusts. The magnates then open fire, and Roy wakes up. In the returning of consciousness, Roy comes to a realization of the sinful wasting of his intelligence and energy, and he goes to his father's laboratory to ask if he may assist him in his researches.
- Stereotypical Jewish man Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives with his daughter Essie (Virginia Brown Faire) in a small, predominantly-Christian New England town. The discriminating viewpoints of the populace, including the Mayor, drive them to try to get rid of the newcomers. Solomon is persuaded by Clem (William V. Mong) to invest in an electric-light plant. The town is brought prosperity and the Solomons' former adversaries honor him.
- Dr. John Wright is a young, rising physician. His wife, who was raised in luxury, rebels at their present poverty. Having received an invitation to a great social event, she pleads with her husband to devise some means for obtaining finery, so as to be able to accept the invitation. He borrows two sets of jewels, one of which she loses at the ball. Both are panic stricken. He gives his note for $5,000 to cover the loss. Later he makes a great surgical discovery and becomes famous. Four crooked promoters seek his endorsement to lend legitimacy to their fake tuberculosis cure and promise him $50,000. He refuses. Later the conspirators secure the promissory note and threaten foreclosure. This, and his wife's entreaties to accept the money, influence him to do so. The promoters build a sanatorium and use their dangerous "Alligator Serum." Dr. Wright's little daughter contracts tuberculosis while her father is away at the sanatorium looking over the records. The number of deaths here astound him. Realizing the "Cure" to be a fake, he demands the elimination of his name. They refuse and a struggle ensues. The doctor is wounded and they, fearing exposure, imprison him in the sanatorium. Meanwhile the chief promoter makes advances to the shallow wife and claims the doctor has deserted her, but she repulses him and rushes into another room into the arms of her husband, who has escaped. After hearing her story, the doctor throttles the promoter and ejects him from their home. He then finds his child has been given the fatal serum. Dr. Wright hears that a warrant is out for his arrest, on account of his connection with the sanatorium. Grieving over his threatened arrest, the possible death of his only child and his future ruin, he seizes his revolver, contemplating suicide. The three promoters rush in to buy his silence, but all are filled with fear as the police approach. The doctor, followed by the fear-crazed promoters, rushes out and jumps into a launch. They are pursued by another boat containing the police, who open fire. One of the police bullets strikes the gasoline on board the doctor's boat, which explodes, blowing boat and occupants high in the air. Dr. Wright, the survivor, is only slightly injured, and being caught, he is sentenced to "Thirty Years at Hard Labor," for manslaughter. Broken and dejected from the fate which has followed her foolish vanity and her insistence upon her husband accepting the $50,000, and remorse over her fast-failing child, the doctor's wife sits and watches her baby die of tuberculosis. She earns her living by sewing, and meets him after some years of privation at the prison gate, when he has been pardoned after contracting the dread disease. She accompanies him to the famous Adirondack Sanatorium, where he is cured within one year amidst characteristic scenes in and about the sanatorium. The two, now thoroughly restored to health and sanity through their terrible experiences, find much to live for in their mutual, understanding love, though without riches.