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- Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, he must break off his forthcoming wedding to his childhood sweetheart Priscilla by any means necessary--including murder.
- A British Army officer kills a man he finds in his wife's room. Although she is innocent of any wrong the wife claims to be guilty to save her husband from a death sentence.
- A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
- Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
- Fannie, a performer in a music hall act, teams up with Johnny, an MC and a gambler, and becomes a success. They marry, and a few years later they have a child. One night while they are playing in a club in New York City, two Broadway produces catch their act and offer Fannie a job in their latest show, but they don't have a place for Johnny. Fannie turns down their offer, and soon things take a downturn for the pair, both career-wise and personal-wise, and when Johnny loses all their money gambling, things come to a head.
- Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
- College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when tragedy strikes after he pays an innocent visit to a woman.
- A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
- Julian, a Spanish fisherman in the Canary Islands, has a younger brother Charles who tends to get in trouble with women. When Charles sets his sights on a wealthy aristocratic woman, Julian pretends to be in love with her in order to protect his brother, but it's not long before he realizes he actually is in love with her.
- Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 50-50 "even steven" on anything they get or do. Jimmy, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't care for women but Scotty falls in love with Diana O'Sullivan, a Coney Island girl. They decide that Jimmy needs a girlfriend and they opt for Jeannie Cavanaugh. But, following their 50-50 pact, Jimmy, although he has fallen in love with Jeannie, praises Scotty to her. It takes an airplane ride to get everybody matched up correctly.
- "Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
- Framed for a stagecoach accident, John Bishop is jailed. Bob Leady helps break him out and in return John heads for Sonora to look for Leady's missing son. He finds him when he joins Monte black's gang, a gang from which no member has ever escaped alive.
- A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
- A newly-married couple, scions of local nobility, are living in a castle. There is a huge portrait of "The Lady in Ermine" hanging on a wall. The legend of the painting tells of the Countess' grandmother who gave her honor that the life of her husband might be spared. Upon his safe return, the husband killed his wife for her act. Soon, an Austrian general and his staff are occupying the castle, and the general becomes infatuated with the Countess. He questions the staff and learns of the legend. The Count tries to escape, is caught, and is about to be executed as a spy. The General makes the same proposition to the Countess that another general had made to her grandmother. The Countess is soon seen walking down the corridor to the General's room...clad only in an Ermine coat.
- A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means that men are constantly after her. She rejects them all, leading some to believe that she is a lesbian. To stop those rumors, she begins a platonic relationship with a young writer, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
- From the day they first met in the schoolhouse in a small New England town, Theodore Wayne, son of a respected lawyer, and Jennie Clapton, daughter of wealthy parents, have been sweethearts. Their romance has progressed into their college years, where Ted has become a big football star on the gridiron. But Jack Randall, the wealthiest boy in town, has also courted Jennie, with the approval of her mother, impressed and blinded by Jack's money. Ted's father dies, and Ted has to leave college to return home to a menial job in order to support his mother. Jennie's love for him never waivers, but her mother convinces Ted that Jennie's happiness hinges on having money and social position. He leaves town, with his mother, and Jennie is heartbroken. Then World War I breaks out.
- Babe Dugan, star player of the Angels baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any of his teammates. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes concerned over his untidiness. Later, Babe accidentally strikes Vernie with a ball during a game and calls her to apologize. Meanwhile, his pal, Peewee, falls in love with Vernie's friend, Georgia. On an outing to an amusement park, a roller coaster throws Vernie into Babe's arms. Soon they are engaged and Vernie plans to reform him. Tensions rise when the team presents the couple with a set of hand-decorated spittoons, and a lovers' quarrel ensues. However, Babe takes the reform idea seriously, despite its negative effect on his game. At a crucial moment in the ninth inning, Vernie relents and throws him a plug of tobacco, prompting the revitalized Babe to hit a home run.
- Convoy is a lost 1927 silent World War I drama starring Lowell Sherman and Dorothy Mackaill and released through First National Pictures.
- Guy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is Mary, a girl left destitute by her father's death. Watson is so good at his new calling that a band of followers build a tabernacle for him to preach his sermons. But when one of his former performers, "Ma" Parker dies, Guy prays honestly for the first time in his life, and then tells the congregation of his lying past. Mary, it turns out, is also a crook, and they go to jail with the intent of getting married when they are released, and starting a new honest life.
- Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens. The next day he is wounded and taken to a military hospital where he meets and falls in love with Lady Gwendolyn. An attack on the hospital separates them and, at the end of the war, Terrance returns home penniless. Cravens, the cad, has made Lady Gwen promise to marry him and has entered the horses he won from Terrance in the National Derby. Terrance goes to London to attend the Derby and sees Lady Gwen again. She is less than thrilled with the prospect of marrying Cravens and makes him a sporting proposition; if "Bad Luck" wins the race she will marry him immediately but if "Good Luck" wins, their marriage will never take place, and she and Terrance will be free to resume their romance. "Bad Luck" wins and Cravens comes to claim his bride, but two of the stable-boys discover that Cravens had the distinguishing marks on "Good Luck" painted over, and it was really "Good Luck", of the two nearly-identical horses, that won the race. The jig is up for Cravens.
- Philip Charters (Henry A. Barrows), the President of International Motors, and his daughter, Helen Leila Hyams), drive up to the shop of Willie Bascom (Johnny Hines), an auto mechanic. Charters is interested in an invention by Willie, and Willie quickly becomes interested in Helen. They depart for Cold Springs, a fashionable summer resort for the rich. Wllile images that Cold Springs is such a place where a young man wearing white pants would not be jeered at. He gets a chance to find out when he has to repair a car and take it to the owner in Cold Springs. He summons Wong Lee (George Kuwa'), a Chinese laundryman to pose as his chauffeur, dons his spiffiest pair of white pants,arrives at the resort and is mistaken for a crack polo player, hired to help the resort's team beat a rival team. Willie is anything but a polo player.
- Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
- "Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. From then on to the finish "Mismates" grows into drama by leaps and bounds as the wife escapes from prison, comes to the bedside of her dying child and is saved at last by the generous offices of a brilliant young lawyer whom she rewards at last with her true love.
- A shy botany student is infatuated with a girl but gives her the wrong impression of what he is really like.
- One was an Irish policeman - his friend was a German saloon keeper. They went "over there" to fight for their country, but they had more fights getting to the front than they had when they got there. And the way those Russian women made love to them, made them wish they were in "No Woman's Land". Positively the funniest war story ever screened. You'll lose yourself in laughter when you see "Lost at the Front". Don't miss it. The previous paragraphs appeared in promotional material distributed for the 1927 release.