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- An immoral small-town girl steals money from her drunk lover in order to go to a big city. There she becomes a cabaret star and seduces a wealthy married entrepreneur.
- The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won. Determined to regain his honor, Billy goes into training, with his valet's help. Billy arranges to finance a boxing match with Burke, but because Billy's father objects, the fight must take place on a raft near Coney Island. Billy finally wins the fight, thereby impressing his fiancée and winning the respect of his father.
- Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
- After WW I, two marines visit the family of one of their comrades in New Mexico. Learning that after the family bought a ranch the water supply was cut off, they take up the fight. To settle the matter the Marshal agrees to a boxing match to decide who will get the water rights.
- A college band performs in a speakeasy, where a raid results in the expulsion of the bandleader, but later he manages to land a Broadway gig.
- A cowpuncher is out for revenge on the gent who seduced his sister into a dance hall by advertising for a school teacher and then finished her off before he blew town.
- Sam Stallings kills and robs Lynn Durant. The Man from Oklahoma arrives and he and Stallings quickly become enemies. The Oklahoman eventually learns who killed Durant and avoiding the trap on his life by Stalling's henchman, sends his dog for the Sheriff while he goes after Stallings.
- A very sick Mrs. Worth is hoping her missing son Roger would return. Seeing how the Kansas Kid closely resembles Roger he gets the Kid to pose as him. His plan is the get the Worth ranch. Then complications arise when the Kid refuses to go through with the deal and the real Roger Worth arrives.
- Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.
- A cowboy comes to the aid of a pretty young ranch owner who must recover the gold that's been stolen from her by a recently fired foreman and his gang.
- Newspaper reporter Tip O'Neil and his editor, Bruce Dergan, are both in love with feature writer Mary Burton. The ambitious Dergan has plans to take control of the newspaper from meek publisher Hoyt by pretending to be in love with Hoyt's restless wife and gaining control of her stock in the paper. After a series of misadventures, Tip reveals Dergan's schemes to Mrs. Hoyt, after which her houseboy "mistakenly" shoots and kills Dergan. Finally, Tip is rewarded with Mary's promise to marry him because he is the right man.
- City youth sets out for West to avenge father's murder. Arrives in town where killer lives and after a series of fights he accomplishes his purpose. Falls in love with school teacher and resolves to stay in town.
- A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message. While investigating, he meets a beautiful and mysterious countess.
- Suspected of having killed the father of the girl he loves, Trooper Moran of the Northwest Mounted Police is given a week to find the culprit or else do away with himself. Aware of a quarrel between the man and an Indian trader, Moran trails and finds the Indian and places him under arrest. The Indian declares himself to be innocent but admits to having been present when the man was shot. The evidence finally points to a French trapper, who is forced to confess. Moran clears himself and marries the girl.
- The railroad is building a new line, but the workers are unhappy because one of the board members, hoping to oust the man in charge of the project (Rapley), has a saboteur on site. Rapley's daughter Rose sneaks out to the project to become their telegraph operator, and with help from the supervisor "Sunrise" Smith, eventually discovers the plot and helps catch the bad guys amid several thrilling train chases.
- After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
- A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.
- A society couple lose their two-year old son in ship-fire and a fireman, finding the child, adopts him. The society couple adopt a baby girl. Both children grow up and meet in later years but the girl has an affair with a rich profligate. Meanwhile, the boy has become a fireman and through his instrumentality the girl is saved from death in fire. She gives up the rich youth and marries the firefighter.
- Pat O'Farrell, a rich young man, takes a job as a truck-driver for his uncle's milk company, and falls in love with Cliare Knight, daughter of the Knight Car Company. Pat is financing "Dad" Perkins, who is working on a super-charger which Pat hopes to put on the Knight race-cars. Perkins tells Pat he has loaned the invention to lawyer Stanton Wade. Lawyer Wade has intention of keeping the device for his own benefit. Pat has no intentions of allowing that to happen.
- Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.
- Popular patrolman Danny Moore fails of promotion when he stops to aid an injured child and lets several thugs escape. When Danny is later informed of the plans of a criminal gang to rob Jack Griffen's bank, he gets departmental permission to set a trap and rounds up the robbers, gaining himself his promotion at last. It is a hollow honor, however, for, along with the thieves, he had to arrest his own daughter, Mary, who seemed to be an accomplice of the thieves. Jack Griffen, who is in love with Mary, comes forward, however, and proves the girl's innocence. Danny gets his sergeant's stripes, and Mary and Jack make plans to get married.
- Alice Culhane is a brassy Klondike dance-hall girl with a heart of gold is pursued by such ardent flirting swains as Steve Farrell and Chappie Evans. Alice plays her cards well.
- Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice.
- "Some people have bright futures; others are married," says an opening title even before we glimpse the protagonists illustrating that bleak sentiment in this nonetheless frantic silent comedy. Bobby Ray stars as the husband whose mutual sub-bliss with a blonde flapper wife is sustained by her mother's cheques (which were intended to support the offspring they haven't bothered to have). When the suspicious mother-in-law pays a visit, the shameless duo pull out all stops to provide a baby... anyone's baby! A juvenile star (as Bobby Feuhrer) turned antic male-ingenue comedian, Bobby Ray gave up acting shortly after this two-reeler. He went on to a long second career as an assistant director, stretching from 1930s "B" westerns to 1950s TV series episodes. - Dennis Harvey
- On a business trip, Ted Clayton falls in love with the daughter of the President of Costa Blanca. Her chaperone keeps him from making much progress with her, and in the process he incurs the wrath of the President's military.
- Writer Jerry Logan, who specializes in potboiler stories about sailors and seafaring, has actually never been on board a ship in his life. He decides one day to give it a try. He meets two sailors who tell him a completely made-up story about buried treasure, in order to get him to charter the boat of a financially struggling young girl they know. He hires a crew of tough sailors and sets sail to find the "treasure", but winds up having a lot more "adventure" than he was looking for.
- A press agent helps a honky tonk spot draw a new elite patronage but a troublemaker arrives on the scene as well and disrupts the romance between the male and female stars.
- The town is depending on Jimmy O'Day to be the victor in a prizefight so that money can bring back jobs. His girlfriend Alice stands by him as he deals with the pressure of training and people's expectations.
- Wes Channing comes along and joins with rancher Rufe Sims and his daughter Mary in a three-cornered fight against a despicable gambler, Flash Denby, a crooked assayer, Mark Newman, and an outlaw gang trying to take away from the rancher his property that has a gold mine on it.
- William Gordon, Jr., a constant source of irritation to his airplane manufacturer father, leaves home after an argument. Accompanied by his faithful mechanic, William flies his airplane in search of adventure. He soon meets inventor John Courtney and becomes enamored with his daughter, Helen. To help John overcome an unscrupulous rival who covets his invention, William enters a transcontinental airplane race. William wins the race, thus ensuring a government contract for John and Helen's love for himself.
- Bud Parsons fails in an attempt to steal a wallet from a well-dressed man, but the man takes him to a club and offers him a chance to make some easy money. He must pretend to be the son of Mrs. Hale, that disappeared when a very young child. Bud has a qualm or two but accepts as he sees this as a chance to earn the money to entertain Blanche Amory, a worthless show-girl, who charges a lot of money when being entertained. He and his pal, "Red," go to the Hale mansion and begin the deception. Mrs. Hale's daughter, Ellen, immediately attracts his attention, even though it is not considered proper for a brother to start hitting on his sister, even if the brother is an impostor. Lewis, the man who hired Bud to pose as William Hale, claims the $20,000 reward for the return of the son, but Bud and "Red' rob him after he cashes the reward check at the bank. Meanwhile, from out of nowhere, the real William Hale shows up but Lewis has him tossed in jail. Things eventually work out to everybody's satisfaction, with Lewis being the notable exception.
- Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
- A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
- A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.
- Jack Lanning defies his father by becoming a prizefighter. Although he is successful, Jack is exiled to Texas by his father. There he falls in love with Jenny Jenkins, a pretty girl whose widowed aunt has fallen in love with Jack. Jack helps the widow recover her ranch payroll, stolen by outlaws, and tries to find a way to marry Jenny without causing trouble with her aunt.
- A gangster falls in love with the daughter of a former colleague who has quit the rackets. However, things aren't exactly what they appear to be.
- Outlaw "Dutch" Haynes is extorting money from the ranchers by threatening to blow up the dam that keeps the valley from flooding. To get to that point, Haynes, and his henchmen, have also practiced a little kidnapping, highway robbery, and all-around general connivery. But cowhand James Murdock has been on hand to stop the anti-social behavior, and looks to do so again regarding blowing up the dam.
- Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family. He goes to work as a baker and soon falls in love with Mary Bryson, whose father is Davis's biggest rival in the bread business. When Bryson's secretary bribes the Davis foreman to put cement in the bread, Mary learns of the plot and warns Billy. The concrete loaves have been delivered, so Billy is forced to rent a plane and tell his customers of the trick by means of a sky-written message. The elder Bryson berates his foreman for underhanded dealing, and Billy later beats the foreman in a fight.
- A night club devotee is abducted by orders of his wealthy father. The Abductors betray themselves and the boy discovers the plot to rob his father and kidnap him. A cigarette girl is a member of the gang but, through her love for the boy, switches her loyalty, and he is enabled to prevent an attempted robbery.
- Jim Stewart, foreman of the Triple C Ranch, is staying out on the range one night, trying to find out who is responsible for the disappearance of several mares. Although a wild stallion named "The Grey Devil" is suspected, Jim thinks that rustlers are to blame. Because Jim's coffee has been drugged, he is not awake when several more mares are taken. When he awakens, he is accused of falling asleep on the job and is fired. Determined to learn who the rustlers are, Jim finds the Grey Devil and tames him. Eventually, Jim unmasks the rustlers as a gang headed by the ranch hand who has been his rival for the affections of the rancher's daughter. Jim bests the rustler in a fight and wins the hand of his sweetheart.
- Tip O'Neil is the livest wire on the Herald's staff. He has gathered evidence against Logan - head of the Titanic Construction Co., and Dan Macey, a politician. Dan calls on Inspector Murphy of the Police Department, and warns him to "lay off." While in the Inspector's office Dan sees Ruth, the girl that Tip loves, at the safe where the evidence is placed. Dan goes to Rita who owns a Beauty Shoppe and is his "sweetie" and they plot to use a girl, Sophie, who closely resembles Ruth to get the evidence. Dan takes the evidence from Rita but she swears to get even. Inspector Murphy suspects Ruth of the loss of evidence. Tip believes otherwise. He becomes acquainted with Rita and learns where the evidence is kept. While in Dan's house he battles Dan's gang - he hears that Ruth is held captive on a boat - he escapes the gang and rescues Ruth. The Inspector goes to Dan's house but Dan has burned the envelope containing the evidence. Tip rushes in and takes the real evidence from under the carpet beside safe. Dan and his aids are arrested.