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- In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.
- Japanese diplomat Tokoramo ( Sessue Hayakawa ), on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with chorus girl, Helene ( Gladys Brockwell ), who subsequently rejects her American fiance, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is executed. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan.
- An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
- A young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union, while her brother fights for the Confederates, in the pivotal 1863 battle of the U.S. Civil War.
- One of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. The Greeks declare war against the Trojans, and after ten years of siege finally manage to invade the city with a wooden horse.
- An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
- The bandit Jim Stokes, wanting to go straight and settle down with his new bride, strikes a bargain with the sheriff for his freedom.
- Denton rides into Yellow Ridge with a money-belt filled after years of toil in the mines beyond the desert. The local gamblers covet the fortune but fail to get Steve to try the roulette table until the enticer, Trixie, comes to exercise her charms on him. He blindly follows her lead and is watching the wheel with stern stare when a telegram is received. He asks the woman to read it. She lies when she says it contains good news, for it tells of his mother's critical illness. In the morning Steve awakes to find his belt is empty. In his feverish search through his pockets, he comes upon the telegram. As the truth dawns he goes to the telegraph office to send home a wire. The operator hands him the news that his mother has died. Wild with rage, he shoots up the town and drives away with Trixie lying limp over his horse before him. His heart is now filled with hate for all women and Trixie becomes his slave in a community where he tolerates only the scum of the section. Across the desert comes a pack train of Mississippi farmers who have left their fertile valleys to hunt for gold. Their water is all but gone and their stock is fagged. Their leaders plead with Steve for aid, but the white race may expect nothing from him. Back to the wailing women and children go the despondent leaders. Mary Jane, a waif among them, is not cowed by the story they tell, and by night she goes to repeat their please to the harsh white man. He looks upon her as another victim to share Trixie's lot, but her innocent, fearless attitude toward him makes him hesitate. Meanwhile, his men have carried off the women of the train. As the men pursue and bloodshed is in the air, Steve yields to the little girl and trades the safety of those people for his rich mine, leaves his wealth to his followers and guides the strangers out of the desert.
- The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last revolution in the late 1860s. The Emperor is growing old and infirm. He has two sons: Yorotomo, the elder, will succeed to the throne; his younger brother Togowawa would succeed to the throne in the event of his brother's death. The Emperor, for reasons of state, betroths Yorotomo to Sada San, daughter of the Prime Minister. The Chief Shogun, supposedly loyal to the emperor, covets the throne. He realizes that the Japanese people would never permit him to ascend the throne himself, and he casts about for a dummy to occupy it. The Shogun calls upon the younger prince and unfolds his plan to kill Yorotomo. Togowawa enters into the conspiracy and promises to aid the Shogun. The conspirators are overheard by a spy of the Emperor, who reports the plot. Yorotomo is sent away in disguise. During his sojourn he falls in love with Mimi San, daughter of the gardener of the summer cottage of the Mikado, who does not know that Yorotomo is a prince. The Mikado dies and Yorotomo is called to take the throne, and he is compelled to leave O Mimi San and marry Sada San.
- D'Artagnan goes to Paris and becomes a member of the famous King's Musketeers. The Queen sends him on a dangerous mission to England. His three companions are either captured or put out of commission in the course of fights on foot and horseback. D'Artagnan reaches London and recovers from the Duke of Buckingham a pair of studs the Queen gave him as tokens of regard. On the ship on which he returns the hero is captured by his deadly enemy, De Rochfort. Jumping over the side, he clings to the chains of the vessel till it reaches port in France. He restores the studs to the Queen, and she has them put back into the necklace where they belong. Cardinal Richelieu has induced the King to command the Queen to appear wearing the necklace at a great court ball. When he sees the complete necklace, his plan to embarrass the Queen falls through. In addition to obtaining the favor of the Queen, D'Artagnan is rejoiced over the safe return of his comrades and his reward from his sweetheart for his bravery.
- When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.
- Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
- Confederate soldier Frank Winslow is terrified of the war and eventually runs away from battle. But when he finds himself behind enemy lines with vital information, he must decide between his fear and his conscience.
- A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her; she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.
- Rumpelstiltskin, a wicked little dwarf with magic power, covets the miller's daughter, Polly. He offers the miller two bags of gold for her and is angrily kicked out of the mill. The dwarf vows eternal vengeance. The King, whose coffers are empty, having heard of the magic power of the dwarf, sends for him and commands him to refill his coffers. The dwarf, in vengeance, tells the King that the miller's daughter can spin straw into gold. The King sends for Polly, places her in a room full of straw and commands her to spin it into gold before dawn, else she, her father and the dwarf will lose their heads. The dwarf tells Polly he will spin the straw for her if she will promise him her first born, if it is a girl. Polly, in order to save her father, promises. Prince Cole, disguised as a hunter, seeks a girl to love. He sees Polly and falls in love with her. She agrees to meet him in the forest, but is captured by the dwarf and taken to his cave, where the Dragon is set to watch over her. With the assistance of the Good Fairy the Prince rescues Polly. The King places the Prince in a dungeon because of his love for Polly. The Good Fairy helps Polly to liberate him and he and Polly step on the magic carpet which the Good Fairy has given Polly and wish themselves far away. They are transferred to the woods, where they are married and a baby girl is born to them. The dwarf searches for Polly and the Prince, finds them and steals their child. The Good Fairy again comes to their assistance and the child is restored to them. The King, whose treasure is exhausted in the search for his son, commands the miller again produce his daughter so that she can spin some more straw into gold for him. The Prince and Polly appear before the King, by whom they are joyfully welcomed. They tell the King the story and the dwarf is condemned to spinning straw the rest of his natural life.
- Mary Beresford is the devoted and self-sacrificing wife of a man whose ambition is great, but whose energy in achieving that ambition is less than nothing. He has a fairly responsible place with a well-known firm and holds it solely because his wife does most of his work for him after hours in their home. One day a particularly important stack of papers is given to Al Beresford by his employer; a report must be in the hands of their most distinguished client that night. Al dawdles through the day and at night takes the unfinished job home. He and Mary start to work it out together, but he pleads a headache and goes to bed. She finishes the work and delivers the papers in person to Elihu Jasper. Jasper is a powerful operator in Wall Street and lives alone in a big mansion. He is attracted to Mary and in an effort to help her summons Al to an interview. He soon finds that the man is unworthy of consideration, but because of the woman he gives Al many tips that increase his income and enable the Beresfords to move into palatial quarters. Jasper is a frequent visitor there, bored by the man's egotism, but secretly admiring the woman. There comes a day when Beresford is convinced that his rise is due entirely to his own efforts, he regards the wife who has made his position possible as a hindrance and urges her to give him his freedom. A widow in society has attracted him. Mary departs and the world swallows her up. Jasper is informed of the situation by her maid. His mind quickly formulates a plan. Al Beresford is wiped out in the street and commits suicide. Then comes the long hunt for Mary, but not until Jasper goes into the market to thwart a plot to deprive him of a profitable mine does he discover her as the secretary of his broker. He saves the mine and wins the woman.
- Prospector Jim Alton stumbles upon a dying woman, while traveling across the desert, she implores him to care for her little boy Joey. Jim takes the boy to town, where he encounters Joey's brutal father, Razor Joe, and falls in love with Jennie, a young girl whose father is dying. After running Joe out of town, Jim settles down to make a home for Joey. Jim rides to the neighboring town to bring back Dr. Howard after Jennie's father takes a turn for the worse. Soon after, the old man dies and the doctor convinces Jennie to return to his home and marry him. Upon discovering that the doctor already has a wife in New York, Jennie leaves him, but, too proud to go home, accepts a position in a dance hall. Meanwhile, Razor Joe and his gang kidnap Joey. Jim follows, confronts them with his guns drawn, and rescues the boy. All ends well as Jim and Jennie are reunited and, together with Joey, begin life anew as a family.
- Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her uncle. Her American ways both shock and eventually delight the people of the old village--especially the handsome young minister.
- The Indians are on the warpath, and their depredations have reached such a length that the government has massed its troops and after much difficulty surrounded them. The Indians are defeated. In one of the tepees Col. Ward finds a little girl about 10 years old, grief-stricken over the loss of her parents. He brings her back to the fort, and he and his wife adopt her. The Indians lay down their arms, and at a peace conference a treaty is solemnly signed by which the Indians agree not to venture beyond certain boundaries, which the government agrees to protect from further intrusion and settlement, Mary, the child, is sent to an eastern boarding school. One morning the Indians get excited over the appearance of a long wagon train which wends its way into their territory. The emigrants prepare to settle down. Wild consternation prevails among the Indians. A delegation is appointed to call at the fort in protest against the invasion of their hunting ground. Colonel Ward sees the justice of the Indians' protest, and receives them kindly. He promises to take the matter up with the Washington officials. The Indians insist upon the emigrants being removed, and to this the Colonel turns a deaf ear. Mary has just come home from college. The Indians meet her in the yard, and the attraction of race overcomes the years of education and civilization. These are her people, her brothers, and she listens to their impassioned recital of their wrongs, and then bids them wall while she intercedes for them. Mary eloquently pleads the cause of the Indians to the Colonel, but he is helpless in the premises and can only promise to do his best. It is the first time Mary has ever asked anything which was not granted her by her doting foster-parent, and she feels it keenly The Indians appeal to the government agent, and as they become excited he orders them from his office. They refuse to move. Angered, he draws his revolver and in the scuffle that ensues the weapon is discharged and he falls to the floor mortally wounded. The Indian police and soldiers rush in and arrest the chief. A court-martial is held and the Indian is sentenced to be shot. Mary has overheard the trial and determines to save the chief. She secures permission to visit him in his cell and unfolds to him her plan, which is to remove the bullets from the guns and replace them with blank: cartridges. When the soldiers fire he is to fall and feign death, and, when his body is turned over to his tribe, to continue the deception until he is safely away. That day at midnight, Mary makes her way to the library and extracts the bullets, replacing them with blank cartridges. In her excitement she drops one of the guns. It awakens the Colonel, who starts to investigate. Mary listens a moment, and hearing nothing goes on with her work. The Colonel sees the dark form moving in the room and fires. Hastily lighting a candle he picks up the dead body and sees who it is. Mrs. Ward is frantic with grief, and the Colonel with difficulty controls himself, a glance at the guns explains the situation, and he replaces the bullets and decides to conceal Mary's death until after the execution. The next morning the fort is surrounded by hordes of Indians. The Chief, confident that Mary has carried out her plan, boldly takes his place facing the firing squad. With a dozen bullets in his body he drops like a log. The Indians laugh merrily at what they consider his clever acting. He is placed on a stretcher and given to his tribe. When they think they have reached a safe distance from the soldiers they draw back the blanket which covers their chief, and then, for the first time, they learn that he is dead.
- Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies. At their headquarters, in the Gila Mountains, in consultation with "Ace High," his lieutenant, he plans depredations on the neighboring settlements. Although Hudspeth is powerful, their rule is disputed by El Salvador, a half-breed, and his following of desperadoes. Desert Pass is the scene of many conflicts between the contending bands. Rumors of the arrival of miners with gold causes El Salvador to send "Cactus" Fuller, his henchman, to levy tribute by a hold-up, which is successful. Flushed with triumph, he boasts in the "Golden Fleece" saloon of the ignominies to which he would treat Cliff Hudspeth if he ever met him. Hudspeth arrives and makes Cactus, whom he throws out of the saloon, realize that something must be done to retrieve a shattered reputation. Coming out of the saloon, Hudspeth sees Norma Wright, a milliner, standing at the door of her little store, and waves her inside, as he anticipates trouble. The shooting commences and Cactus is defeated. As Hudspeth is preparing to leave town Norma denounces him as a cold-blooded murderer. Stung almost to madness by the girl's accusation, he seizes her and gallops out of town. At his retreat he locks the stupefied girl in a room and seeks to drown the memory of her words with whiskey. The whiskey, and his awakened conscience, bring him to review his life, and, half delirious, he sees his victims pass reproachfully before him. The girl, too, becomes aware of the human side of the man and next morning she brings him around to her way of thinking and extracts a pledge that he will never willingly kill another human being. Soon after there comes from a member of the legislature offer of a pardon and restoration to citizenship if Cliff will undertake to rid Arizona of El Salvador. Hearing of Cliff's new appointment, El Salvador is wild with rage, and burns the town and drags Norma away to the mountains. Cliff Hudspeth rescues her and kills El Salvador, although mortally wounded himself. He places the girl on a horse, which bears her to safety, and passes away consoled that his last killing was in her defense.
- Mlle. Poppea of the Imperial Ballet, had fascinated all Calcutta. But most conspicuous among her devotees was Captain Drake of the Royal Singapore Blues. It was not so generally known that Prince Yar Khan, of Her Majesty's Bengalese Dragoons, also was an ardent suitor of this Circe of the West. Drake's and the dancer's infatuation was mutual. One evening, awaiting him Poppea sat before coil upon coil of Indian pearls. "To the fairest of the fair," read the card in the casket, "from her devoted slave, Yar Khan." Captain Drake made his entrance. She was Drake's, she told the Englishman, and his alone. A few weeks later, Poppea held in her hand Yar Khan's letter of proposal. "He is a prince," she whispered to herself. "He is rich. Why not?" Within the hour, Yar Khan rode away from their interview. Poppea and consented to marry him. And simultaneously in the perfumed, dim-curtained chamber of Poppea, Drake was demanding the meaning of the priceless, strange ring on her finger. As he learned the truth he turned away. For a moment she searched him with her great, lustrous eyes. Then, putting her face close to his, she whispered, "Need my marriage make any difference to us?" After the honeymoon. Prince Yar Khan and his bride received their "mutual" friend many times at the palace. Drake came and went with the full confidence of Poppea's husband. Then, unexpectedly, the Prince was ordered south. Yar Khan was chagrined and sorrowful that he must take his bride into the sweltering southland. They had been gone about a month when, one day, Captain Drake was handed a letter. "And I'm sick of it," the letter concluded, "sick of the heat, the greasy natives, and being worshiped by a fool. If you don't come to me I shall go mad. Poppea." The "mutual" friend, absent from the army at Calcutta on a plea of ill health, was made extraordinarily welcome by Prince Yar Khan. Then, one morning, the Prince, entering his wife's room, saw on the candle-stand by her bed a heap of cigar ashes. The awakening was swift and terrible. True to the code of the Orient, he determined to work secretly. That evening he entrapped the lovers together. Placing a guard over them, Yar Khan retired to his study. He poured out two identical glasses of wine. Then, into one of these he dropped a quantity of arsenic. Poppea and Drake were led before him. "One of these is harmless," he addressed the Englishman, "the other fatal. My wife will choose for you." At last she waveringly held out toward Drake one of the glasses. Ceremoniously, the two men drained the fatal toast. The Indian prince still stood, statue-like and smiling, when with a sudden, horrible writhe of his body. Drake fell over on the table, dead.
- Knud, a vicar's son, meets Magda, a piano teacher, on a tram. He falls in love with her and introduces her to his parents. She refuses to go with them to the Sunday service and convinces him to go to the circus with her.
- Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into depravity, drug-addiction, criminal activity, and finally to tragedy.
- "Draw" Egan, a notorious bandit of New Mexico, has come to the end of his tether. His gang has been dispersed, many slain, and more in jail, and there is a reward of $1,000 offered for Egan, "dead or alive." While drinking in a saloon at Muscatine, Egan chances across Matt Buckton, a leading citizen of the neighboring village of Yellow Dog. Yellow Dog is a town infested with gunmen who make life miserable for the few respectable citizens. Buckton is on a still hunt for some strong men who will shoulder the unenviable responsibilities of sheriff, and put the fear of God and the law into the hearts of his undisciplined fellow-citizens. While Buckton is thinking over his seemingly impossible quest, the bully of Muscatine enters the saloon and accosting "Draw" Egan, finds himself crumpled upon the floor without opportunity for repartee. Buckton is so much impressed by the quietude and deftness of Draw Egan's work that he immediately offers him the job of cleaning out Yellow Dog. So Draw Egan, as William Blake, is installed as sheriff of Buckton's promising community. William Blake soon has the bullies and gunmen of Yellow Dog well in hand, with law and order restored by the capable ex-bandit. At the time when the respectable citizens are singing the praises of the new sheriff, one of the worst of Egan's old gang, Oregon Joe, strolls into town, sizes up the situation, and holding a threat of betrayal over the sheriff's head, proceeds with the aid of the tough element to undo the sheriff's good work. For himself Egan cares little, but while endeavoring to live down his past and lead a clean life, he has fallen in love with Buckton's daughter Myrtle. Day by day he submits to Oregon Joe's insults and the tough element gradually gets the upper hand. Things have reached such a pitch that one day the gunmen, headed by Oregon Joe, decide to drive the respectable citizens out of town and run the place for themselves. It is up to the sheriff to decide, and his manhood asserts itself. He confesses the evils of his past life, throws himself on the mercy of his fellow citizens and promises to surrender to the government if they will allow him one day to restore order. He makes good; the gunmen are whipped into submission and Oregon Joe, the blackmailer, meets his just reward. The sheriff surrenders and is locked up in the caboose, but the next morning a delegation of citizens greets him with the assurance that to them Draw Egan has ceased to exist and that Yellow Dog only recognizes Sheriff William Blake. Myrtle Buckton is one of the delegation.
- A parson, in love with a girl who is betrothed to a rich Count in her family's hope of partaking in the Count's fortune, uses his pulpit in a scheme to shame the family into allowing the girl to break the engagement and marry him instead.
- Moving Picture World, 5 October 1912 - A melodrama of the Wild West which leaves nothing to be desired for those who enjoy bandits, bandit lore and bandit hunting. They kidnap a girl in this case, a doctor leads a sheriff's posse to her rescue and some interesting and novel adventures follow. The production has an admirable setting in a rough mountain country and the photography is praiseworthy.
- Brilliant but besotted attorney, David Harmon, wins a big case but ends the day in a dingy waterfront flophouse. His fiancée puts him on a sailing ship in an attempt to get him to dry out, but once at sea a storm wrecks the ship and strands Harmon on a tropical island. He rescues the daughter of a native chieftain from being sacrificed to the lava gods and together they live an idyllic life for a time. Harmon is drawn back to civilization though and he returns to his former city only to find that his fiancée has wed his best friend. Another bout of drink finally brings Harmon back to realize that his true life is back on the island so he returns to once again find his beloved about to be sacrificed, this time with their son in her arms.
- After his wife dies in childbirth, mountaineer Jim Grimsby names his newborn daughter Bill, and raises her as a boy. Remaining a boy in name only, however, Bill soon wants to style her hair and wear the latest fashions. She soon develops a crush on the new sheriff, Waldo Whittier. Appalled at the prospect of his "son" marrying Waldo, Jim decides to test the sheriff's grit, and so, believing that Waldo will be too frightened to come after him, he robs a casino. The sheriff does pursue, however, and, further impressing Jim, Bill pulls a rifle on Waldo to protect her father. Now certain of the sheriff's manliness, and convinced that his daughter has not forgotten how to act like a man, Jim returns the casino's money and agrees to let Bill and Waldo continue their courtship.
- "Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
- A young man named Leandro tries to force himself onto his love interest, but she already has another man, and while escaping punishment for his rushed actions, he enters an alchemist's house and releases the lame devil that was being held there. Together they make some mischief.
- Lillian Hillary's mother encourages her to marry a rich man after her father's death and the loss of the family fortune. She chooses Bert Werden, who is more wholesome than her other wealthy suitor, financier Graham Henderson. When Werden loses his fortune, Lillian's goading causes him to work night and day dealing in the stock market. Although he regains his fortune, his health soon suffers and he develops an obsession with making money. Werden neglects Lillian, who misses his attentions. After Werden forgets their third wedding anniversary, he responds to Lillian's displeasure by coldly handing her a $50,000 check. When Henderson tries to gain control of a syndicate to bankrupt Werden so Lillian will leave him, Werden, to save himself, asks her to give the check back, but she refuses. Thinking that Lillian will accept Henderson, Werden is about to shoot himself when he overhears her tell Henderson that she refused Werden's request so that he would go broke and forget about greed. Werden sends Henderson away and is reconciled with his wife.
- The Colonel is at a financial low ebb, and his only recourse is to get his horse safely to the big race and win. But obstacles appear at every turn.
- The Spirit of Evil, driven out of Heaven, flies to the mountains of Caucasus, and determines to conquer the soul of Tamara, a beautiful princess. The Demon causes the death of her lover and soon begins to exert an irresistible influence on Tamara, who hides in a convent to escape him. The Demon descends in the night and forcing his way past an Angel who seeks to stop him, takes Tamara, powerless to resist, in his arms. As he kisses her the touch of his poisonous lips cause her to fall lifeless, and the Demon is foiled.
- Angus McConnell is factor of the outpost of the Hudson Bay Company which is dignified by the name of Fort Lu Cerne. The summer has been disastrous for the trappers, and they are deeply in the company's debt for provision. Angus keeps account of what they owe in a little book, and one night this precious book disappears. Angus vows all manner of vengeance on the culprit who has taken it. He keeps close watch on the office, and at last he beholds Lois Le Moyne, belle of the outpost, rummaging about his desk. Unknown to him, she has come to make him a gift of a beautiful pair of moccasins, made with her own fair hands, so he concludes she is the thief, and has her thrown into the goal. Then Richard Sylvester, the company inspector, comes to Fort Lu Cerne on the rounds. He sees Lois, falls in love with her, and has her released. On his promise that he will have Angus dismissed as factor and himself appointed, she agrees to wed him. This he accomplishes, and Angus takes to the trail alone. But before the wedding can take place an epidemic of sickness breaks out, and in terror the cowardly Sylvester flees with his bodyguard. Angus, who has heard that the Blackfeet Indians are about to descend on the outpost to demand a white person to be sacrificed as an offering to the god who has brought down the plague, happily returns at this time and resumes the reins of authority. The Indian attack takes place, and after a thrilling fight, in which the whites are greatly outnumbered, Angus goes forth to offer himself as the victim. He is miraculously saved, however, and returns to the fort. But he finds that all the garrison have gone save Lois; and with these two great enemies along in a terrible situation there comes about a great finish to a remarkable film. -- Moving Picture World, June 3, 1916.
- While Ethel Duprey stars in a play about an adventuress involved with a married man, her life comes to imitate art as she herself begins an affair with Ernest Hale, another woman's husband. In the play, the adventuress rejects the wife's pleas to give the man up, after which the wife kills herself. In real life, when Cora Hale comes to beg for an end to the affair with her husband, Ethel's first impulse is to take her cue from her role, and to refuse to break off her relationship with Ernest. She reconsiders, however, and urges Cora to make herself more attractive in order to win Ernest back. Cora follows the advice, and as a result, Ernest falls in love with her all over again, and ends his romance with a disconsolate Ethel.
- Everett Nelson was born on a farm and is an only son. He does all the hard work on the place for his father, who keeps the country bank. Unable to stand the bondage any longer, Everett leaves for New York in quest of work. While job hunting he sees a sign on the door requesting the services of a janitor. On entering to apply for the position he finds himself on the stage of a theater, where a rehearsal for a musical comedy is in progress. The astounded manager gazes at this apparition, and then an idea strikes him. He hires the "Clodhopper" for a rural number in his show. How the "Rube" makes the hit of his life as well as showing he is not to be laughed at as a prodigal son is shown in the events that follow.
- A powerful contrast of two kinds of women, opposite in their moral code and way of living, yet extremely alike in the dominating sex impulse.
- Anne Larson, tired of the brutality of her husband, Pete Larson, decides to leave him. She goes back to her father. Her father dies and she starts south again. She runs short of provisions while on her way, and is in a very weakened condition when Jim Dawson, a young hunter, rescues her. He takes her to his home, and his mother cares for her until she recovers. Jim falls in love with Anne and proposes marriage. She accepts his offer, believing her husband dead. A stranger comes up to their home and asks for something to eat. Jim takes him in. Anne recognizes him as her husband. Larson promises to keep silent if she supplies him with all the money he needs. This she promises to do. One day while intoxicated Pete Larson has a row that ends in a tragedy. He escapes from the posse and seeks shelter in Jim Dawson's home. The posse comes there to hunt for him. He again escapes them, but later is caught and killed.
- Billy, who is the little son of Captain Andrews, commandant of a western army post, has one ambition in life, and that is to become a good soldier. This he has confided to his friend, Sergeant Hogan, and the sergeant takes pains to foster the idea. He really needs all his courage to face a new situation that has come up in his life. His father is going to marry again. While he knows absolutely nothing about his prospective stepmother, he can conceive of no one worthy of taking the place of his beloved mother, who lies in the little cemetery outside the fort. In spite of Billy, however, the wedding takes place. The newcomer tries in every way to win over the little fellow, but beyond politeness his friendship stops. Soon after the wedding his father is called at the head of his regiment to quell an uprising of the Sioux Indians, forty miles away. He leaves his bride in little Billy's care. The distant trouble is but a ruse on the part of Lame Bear, the Indian chief, and now, with his picked braves, he swoops down on the weakened garrison at the fort. The defenders of the fort are so few in number that it is but a question of time before they must surrender. Billy, bearing in mind the admonition of his father to take care of his stepmother, takes her away from the fort by a secret passage and hides her in a cave in the hills. Suddenly he observes the wavering men at the stockade. Bethinking himself of his bugle and hoping to lead the Indians to believe that his father and the regiment are returning, he blows the signal to charge from a distant knoll outside the fort. The outcome of that bugle call saves the garrison and draws Billy and his stepmother together.
- Yukon Ed has asked saloon owner Ruby McGraw to marry him several times, and has been turned down each time. She falls for Jack Sturgess, a no-account who has seduced and abandoned a poor young girl and is escaping from his father's anger. She takes up with Jack to Ed's dismay, and soon the thing that Ed feared would happen does happen.
- Gambler "On-the-Level" Leigh gives up his profession for his little sister, Alice, whose precarious health demands that she move to the mountains. There, the gambler meets the fiery dance hall girl Coralie whose advances he rejects. His funds exhausted from the expense of the move, Level unwillingly returns to his old profession, but Coralie induces the dealer to "cold deck" Level, and he loses every cent. Out of desperation, Level decides to hold up the passengers of the stagecoach while unknown to him, Black Jack shoots and kills the driver for the express box. Learning of the driver's death, Level surrenders himself to the law and is jailed. Escaping from his cell, Level discovers Black Jack uncovering the express box and arrests him. Level returns to town with the real murderer, is cleared of all charges and is reunited with his sweetheart, Rose Larkin.
- Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura.
- Allegedly sent to Germany as an American war correspondent, William Berner, who quickly wins the confidence of the German military brass, is really a British spy. Then, he learns that as part of the new Allied strategy, the house where he is staying must be bombed. Choosing to ignore the fact that the Germans are his enemies, William saves the lives of the three German women who are in the house with him, but before the British high command can question his loyalty, he gives up his life for England after he fights his way into Pit Forty-Three, a German stronghold, and then wires the British to bomb it, leaving himself no time to get away.
- The first part of the film shows the training stunt, at Raicevich's Villa, the massage, etc. The champions are then introduced and the men get into action. First bout; Jourdan, the French champion, vs. Lopmajar, the Austrian champion. Second bout: Emile Raicevich. Italian, vs. Shinaplier, the Prussian champion. Third bout: John Raicevich, champion of the world, vs. Anglio, the Black Giant of Martinique.
- A witch casts a spell over a poor fisherman.
- An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented lawyer, whom she ruins both morally and financially. Her second victim, Rex Walden, the generous son of society matron Mrs. Walden, becomes her complete slave. Mrs. Walden sends her elder son Franklin to try to dissuade Leila from toying with Rex's affections. Franklin, however, also falls under Leila's spell, and Rex is driven to suicide by her callous behavior. Desperate, Mrs. Walden enlists Adele Harley, a girl of strong moral character, to fight Leila for Franklin's affections. Adele's determined victory causes Leila to lose her confidence, and in a drunken state, she cuts her own face with a shard from her shattered mirror. Permanently disfigured, Leila ends a broken and lonely woman.