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- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
- The boob is working in a country grocery store. One day, a farmer gets in an argument with him. Words lead to a fight and the farmer chases the boob out and up the street. In his endeavor to escape be jumps into an auto driven by a girl from the city who lives near the store. The girl assists him to escape. In the girl the boob sees the girl of his dreams, but in him the girl sees merely a boob. A traveling show comes to town and advertises for extra people for their show. The boob applies and gets the job. After several blunders he gets his part and comes out on the stage. The girl and her father are in the audience and see the boob make an ass of himself. A fire breaks out in the theater during which there is a stampede for the exits. The girl is left in the burning theater. Her father tries to save her but cannot face the flames. The boob rushes in and saves the girl's life. Shortly afterward, the girl and her father leave for the city and leave a note for the boob. The girl tells him that if he ever comes to the city to be sure and call upon her. Enclosed in the note he finds a check from her father telling him to use his own judgment in disposing of the money, but he would suggest that he use it in getting an education. The girl in the city grows tired of society life and longs for a real man. The shallow life and selfishness of the people she comes in contact with disgusts her. The boob has taken the girls advice and secured a college education. He returns to her rejuvenated and she is very much surprised at the change in him. The boob has indeed become another man. With the development of his mind, his character and even looks have changed. In him the girl sees all that she has been wishing for.
- Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
- Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
- Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.
- Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
- An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
- In New Orleans, Kid Roberts is lured to a rooming house just before the fight, where he is bound hand a foot, and it looks as though all bets would be forfeited. A free-for-all fight is staged as a preliminary, and while this is going on Kid Roberts gains his freedom and arrives in time for the feature event. At a given signal the lights of the hall were to be turned off, and this have his adversary a chance to knock the Kid out, in the second round. The Kid is mad clear through, however, and knocks his man through the ropes in the first round and wins the fight.
- In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a murderous rake of the San Francisco underworld.
- A young woman grows tired of providing for her family.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance.
- A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
- Episode 1: "The Leopard's Mark" "Peg o' the Rine" opens with a prologue depicting the arrival of a circus in a small town, the detraining, selection of the location, erection of the tent and the preparation of all of the paraphernalia for the exhibition of the show. As the hour of the performance approaches, we are introduced to Peg, known as Peg o' the Ring, an aerial performer; Flip, her guardian and supposed father; Pierre Durand, an athlete, her lover; Big Bill Barnen, who runs the show; and Polo, an athlete and tumbler, preparing for their work in the ring. As Peg and Durand go to their dressing rooms Big Bill Banen meets Flip and tells him that he would like to see him before the day is out. In his office in one of the circus wagons Barnen tells Polo, his henchman, that for certain reason he would like to have Flip out of the way. Polo is agreeable. When Flip comes in Barnen sends everyone else out of the office and brings the conversation around to Peg. He is the only one in the circus who suspects that she is not Flip's daughter. After telling Flip that he is getting too old for the circus stunts, he suggests that he might keep him if he will tell him who Peg really is. Flip refuses and comes very near being throttled by Barnen. Flip leaves the wagon after telling the manager that he holds his whole future in the palm of his hand. Barnen resolves to get Flip out of the way, and tells Polo to pull a horse whip when Flip is in the ring that night doing his big jump, Polo obeys his orders implicitly, and Flip is fatally injured in his jump. Realizing that his hours are numbered he calls Pierre to him and starts to tell him who Peg really is. All unknown to them Big Bill Barnen is listening to them. "Years ago," says Flip, "we were in winter quarters. La Belle, the wild animal queen, had been feeling depressed for some time. I was nothing to her but a friend, but she was all the world to me. I was the only one in the circus who knew that she was secretly married to Dr. Lund, owner, but for reasons of his own the doctor had decided that the marriage must be kept a secret. It was this fact which made La Belle so downhearted. I tried in every way to cheer her up, but I knew in my heart that there was another woman in the doctor's life. I loved her too well to tell her, but I never had the courage to tell her of my love. I had watched over her like a child, and I cautioned her frequently against taking such chances in the cage with her wild animals. And that very night, it was the opening performance of the season, the big cats jumped on her, and before the trainers could get into the cage she had been dangerously hurt. How dangerously, none of us knew at the time. They took her into my tent, and she lay in my arms weeping. The first episode ends at this point with the question, "Who is Peg?"
- An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
- This is a bogus title which appears in The Universal Silents by Richard A. Braff. No film of this title was either produced or released at this time.
- The struggle of a group of homesteaders against an unscrupulous band that desires to profit through obsolete Spanish land grants.
- The story begins in the realm of Queen Unda, mistress of the under-seas, surrounded by her nymphs, sylphs and mermaids, who disport themselves on the sands and in the waters of the deep. Berthelda, daughter of a fisherman and his devoted wife, has been stolen by the mermaids one day when the child is playing on the sands. Queen Unda rules that little Berthelda shall be left to roam in the Enchanted Forest, because her parents have taken fishes from the ocean, greatly to the annoyance of Unda and Neptune. Undine's mother has committed sin with a mortal and to atone for this her little baby, Undine, is taken to the shore near the fisherman's cottage, to be discovered by the fisherman and his wife. It is Undine's mission on earth to marry a mortal, and thus atone for the sins committed by her mother in loving a handsome young huntsman, whose untimely death likewise robs Undine's mother of her own life. Undine is welcomed by the fisherman and his wife, who consider she has been sent by the gods to take the place of their little Berthelda. Fifteen years pass. Berthelda has been adopted by the Duke and Duchess and among those who pay her court at the Castle is Huldbrand, the bravest of knights. To test his love, Berthelda sends Huldbrand into the Enchanted Forest and bids him return with proof that he had explored its wonders. Coming to the fisherman's cottage, Huldbrand meets Undine, immediately falls in love with her and they are married by a shipwrecked priest, whom Undine has rescued from the sea. Going with his bride to the Castle, there is great rejoicing. At the celebration in honor of Huldbrand's marriage there appears a messenger from Queen Unda who tells Undine her earthly mission is fulfilled and she returns to the waters under the sea. Huldbrand is reconciled to Lady Berthelda and the story ends.
- A doctor's wife is the head of a bureau that publishes and hands out literature on birth control. However, the police stop it and forbid her to speak in meetings about the secret that was open to the rich but closed to the poor. She is arrested for holding a meeting anyway, is arrested, but convinces her husband and a judge of the soundness of her beliefs.
- Believing his sweetheart untrue, a man marries an adventuress, only to discover that her first husband is still alive.
- The daughter of King Neptune determines to avenge the death of her sister, who was caught in a fishing net laid by the king of a country above the waves. However, she soon falls in love with the king upon whom she planned to take her revenge.
- Episode 1: "The Vanished Jewels" Patricia Montez, niece of the wealthy Eleanor Van Nuys, is the most popular girl in the American colony of Paris. Her one idea is to bring comfort to the suffering poor. Her aunt, Mrs. Eleanor Van Nuys, is likewise charitably inclined. The Children's Asylum, a refuge for orphans, is the principal hobby in Mrs. Van Nuys' scheme of charity. To her friends, Patricia is affectionately known as "Pat." The result of Pat's popularity has been to give the spirited girl an excellent opinion of herself, and when Phil Kelly snubs her she resents it and resolves to go to any length in retaliation. Kelly is a famous detective, known all over Europe as "The Sphinx." Pat's first venture, in retaliation for Kelly's rudeness, is to steal her aunt's jewels. She then notifies Kelly. Pat hides the jewels in her dressing table drawer. They are stolen by Jacques, the butler, who takes them to the rendezvous of his fellow Apaches, the Café Chat Noir. Pat has noticed Jacques' suspicious conduct and follows him to the café. She is followed by Phil Kelly and two of his assistants. Pat is disguised as an Apache's sweetheart, and bribes her cabman to assume the role of her lover. They enter the café and participate in the festivities. Pat sees Jacques displaying to his pals the Van Nuys' heirlooms. By deftly whirling her dancing partner to the table where Jacques sits, she manages to stumble and strike the butler's arm. The jewels fall from Jacques' hands. Pat picks them up and as she is leaving the place Phil Kelly confronts her. In her surprise, Pat drops the gems upon the steps. She dodges past the detective and makes her way home. Kelly observes the jewels lying on the ground, and pocketing them, departs.