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- In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
- A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
- Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
- The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
- The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
- A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
- Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
- Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
- A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
- A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
- An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
- A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."
- A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.
- A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
- A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
- A young man takes a succession of odd jobs to save enough money to buy a house for himself and his mother. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
- An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
- An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
- Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations?
- A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
- It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.
- Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point, excelling at football but angering fellow cadets with arrogance until he resigns, but returns to lead the team and reunite with Betty Channing.
- A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
- When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.
- The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
- Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.
- A young street orphan, Buttons, gets a job as a pageboy on an ocean liner. He and his friend, Slugger, get on the wrong side of the ship's captain, however, when they try to tell him his wife, who is aboard the ship, is cheating on him. The captain throws them both in the brig, and their troubles get even more complicated when the ship is wrecked at sea and is in danger of sinking.
- Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through. Russ is forced to make an emergency landing near a ghost town, where he meets Alice Rendon and her invalid father, who is badly in need of medicine. Russ repairs his plane and promises to return on the following day with the elder Rendon's medicine. Making good on his promise, Russ returns, carrying with him a valuable mail shipment and his friend, Sandy. The plane is attacked by two planes belonging to a gang that smuggles dope and aliens across the Mexican border. Sandy makes a parachute jump with the mail sack, and Russ maneuvers his craft so that the pursuing planes are forced to crash. Russ then lands his plane, only to discover that the Rendons have been captured by three escaped convicts. Russ manages to bring the men to justice, winning the gratitude and love of Alice. Sandy realizes the crowning ambition of his young life and delivers the mail.
- King Serge IV of Molvania (Menjou) comes to Manhattan to conduct business with Arthur Trent (Kilgour), but instead goes to Coney Island, where he meets Gladys Humphreys (Love) and John Rockland (Shaw). John, not knowing the king's royal identity, invites him to his home at Little Falls, New Jersey. The king falls in love with Gladys, but Trent catches them in a compromising situation, and blackmails the king into completing their business deal. The king leaves the United States and Gladys forever.
- This girl with red hair finds true love in a drug king pin. She fell in love with his money, but he blows it all on beer and pizza.
- During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.
- A young chiropractor is tricked by a tall, homely girl into marriage, but he ducks out the morning after the honeymoon. Months go by and he learns that his bride has become a mother. Obliged to his responsibilities, he returns. however, it's just another ruse, with three borrowed babies and a midget dressed as one standing in for his new children.
- Balkan Country in which this story is laid, is governed by an elderly widowed queen whose will is of iron. She has a very soft spot in her heart for the Crown Prince Alexis who will eventually succeed her. Alexis is a hefty laughing cavalier who is an all-round sport and the finest shot in the country. Alexis has been officially betrothed to the Princess Elena of Avonia by the old queen. He has never seen her, nor has anyone else in the country besides the old queen. One day the news comes that the Princess is staying at Castle Anuscheff, just like an ordinary school girl on a vacation. The minister informs Alexis that he must go to the castle to pay the Princess a formal visit. The Prince sends his aide, Dimitri, to the castle with a letter announcing his impending visit. The next day, Dimitri rides out through the country. Near the castle he sees a wonderful looking girl riding on horseback. He is instantly smitten by her and tries to race with her. Not succeeding in out-distancing her, he pretends to fall from his horse. The dark-haired beauty turns around at his cry of distress and returns to help him. He stands upright, looks at her and says, "thanks; your eyes are really brown-that's all I wanted to know." The girl, nettled by the impertinence, whips up her horse and gallops off. Arrived at the castle Dimitri sends in the letter from the Crown Prince. He is presented to two girls, one a blonde and the other a brunette. The brunette is the one with whom he tried to flirt in the forest and she is announced as the Princess Elena. Her blonde friend is the Countess Vera Anuscheff. Dimitri feels that he is falling in love with the officially announced bride of the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince arrives and they hold an informal dance. Dimitri sweeps the Princess off her feet with an impassioned declaration of his love. The Prince who has been dancing with the little blonde has seen nothing of what has occurred and he suggests a sleigh ride. He makes Dimitri, drive the blonde while he takes as his partner, the little brunette. A terrific snow storm arises and the Prince's sled overturns. As they are quite close to the inn, the Prince takes the blonde there; they go to his private rooms. After a moment, the Prince comes up with a warm drink for her and tries to calm her. She bursts out with "I'm worried about the Princess Elena." The Crown Prince is mystified; she rattles on. "I'm not the Princess. I'm Countess Vera Anuscheff. The Princess was so nervous about meeting you for the first time, that we changed names for one day and this is what has happened." In the Castle Anuscheff a similar explanation is taking place. Dimitri realizes that the girl whom he loves is not the princess and that she is lost somewhere in the snow storm. He drives hurriedly off. The Prince who is angry at being fooled tries to make love to Vera. She puts up a fight but the Prince is relentless. Dimitri enters in time to save her and she cries to be taken away. Dimitri challenges the Prince to a duel but the Prince has him put under arrest. Next day Dimitri is condemned to death. The Princess on learning the story from Vera, pleads with the Prince to grant a respite. He agrees to give one hour of freedom on Dimitri's promise to return promptly. Vera. persuades him to run away and he is torn between his love and his word of honor. In the Castle, the Princess turns on the Prince and accuses him of having played the part of the coward. Vera enters and tells them that Dimitri has run away. The Prince sneers and Dimitri walks in, confessing that he could not go back on his word. The Crown Prince offers to duel Dimitri, and pistols are chosen. Dimitri flings off his coat and removes a cigarette case from his breast pocket. This is the case that the Prince had given him for having saved his life. Dimitri will not use it as a shield and he removes It. Alexis follows the gesture and repents. The Prince shoots but only hits the pendulum on the clock. The sentence is revoked and the picture ends with Dimitri and Vera dancing their way thru the dark and empty ball room, to the strain of their waltz which is played for them by an old violinist, who is on his way home.
- Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
- Drakma, an international spy, seeks the possession of the triangulator (a device emitting electronic death rays), which radio expert Alan Holt invented for the United States Government. Mary Walsworth manages to smash the machine before Drakma can get it; therefore, the villain captures Alan and Mary, puts Mary on a rum-runner, and leaves Alan on an island to build another triangulator--under threat of Mary's death. Instead, Alan builds a radio and broadcasts an SOS, which is answered by Admiral Walsworth, Mary's father. Alan gets to the rum-runner on a raft, and holds off the crew until sailors arrive to the rescue.
- Coming face-to-face with a couple of ruffians, champion boxer Terrence O'Rourke and construction worker Bull Malarkey, the equally tough Randall Savage flattens each with a single punch. Randall has a romantic interest in Dorothy Clark, whose father is erecting a new building. To get closer to her, Randall lands a job as a riveter. He then learns that not only is Bull Malarkey foreman of the crew, but is plotting to ruin Dorothy's father in business as well. Randall makes sure that does not happen.
- A con-woman has a nice business fleecing gullible tourists who want a genuine 'underworld' experience, but the tables are turned when one of her victims turns out to be less innocent than he looks. Dodging the city detective who knows her by sight and wants her to "go straight", she next sets her sights on a valuable diamond pendant; but when her elegant nemesis turns up at the scene of the would-be crime, a race begins to see who can carry out the con first.
- It's the story of a biblical-era country boy, Jether, who goes off to an unnamed city and gets pulled into the high-life with Tisha, played by Greta Nissen (in maybe her first Hollywood appearance). She's protected by the crooked Tola.
- Jesse James, a member of Quantrill's Partisan Rangers during the Civil War, meets Zerelda Mimms, a northern girl marooned on her uncle's southern plantation, and is saved from capture as a spy. After the war, Jesse is warned by his friend Parson Bill that his mother has been maimed by fanatic Union sympathizers and is threatened by Frederick Mimms with expulsion from the town. Jesse is about to wreak vengeance on Mimms when his daughter's screams bring help; he flees in a spectacular manner and becomes notorious as an outlaw bandit. Citzens attempt to trap him into surrender with the aid of Bob Ford, who betrays him for love of Zerelda, but Jesse escapes with Zerelda on his horse, Silver King, and forces Parson Bill to marry them in a stagecoach.
- A young Parisian noble promises to marry. Visited by fiancée and parents, he bids farewell to mistresses. After marriage and gambling scandal engineered by vengeful valet, the valet confesses to save his master, reuniting the newlyweds.
- Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner of a cabaret. Lawyer Frank Peters falls in love with Maria.
- Shocked by his daughter's flirtatious behavior at a party in his home, Robert Endicott takes her on a trip to the Canadian Northwest. While fishing, she is unwittingly drawn into the rapids, and Grimshaw, her father's engineer, attempts to rescue her. They both reach safety in an inaccessible basin, where a romance develops before they are rescued.
- An innocent young librarian, Lily, catches the eye of several officers in a German garrison, and although one of the, Lieutenant Prell, is particularly attracted to her, she marries Colonel Mertzbach, the aristocratic regimental commander. When Lieutenant Prell persists in his pursuit of Lily, tragedy pursues the trio.
- Afer having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that he has been left a fortune--on condition that he gets married. Deciding that being rich and married would be preferable to being broke and single, he goes in search of a wife, but things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
- A princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense.
- A mirror in a creepy old Bavarian castle has the magical ability to reveal the future of whoever looks into it while the full moon shines brightly. A series of characters looks into the glass to learn their fate, and most are unhappy with what they learn. In the end, the hero smashes the glass and then commits suicide. After he is dead, the mirror magically reassembles itself into a whole as before.