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- A doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Although in love with Virginia Philips, Lew Tyler refuses to be supported by his rich prospective father-in-law, causing her to break the engagement. Thus cast off by Virginia and insulted by her father, Tyler finds distraction in Jessie Winkler, an old friend; and through the efforts of Buzzy, a business partner, Lew and Jessie marry. Their marriage is unsuccessful, and Lew, haunted by the memory of Virginia, seeks forgetfulness in a liaison with Coleen Miles, a neighbor. On the night Jessie sees him with Coleen, their child dies, and Lew remorsefully dulls his sorrow by drinking. Jessie is granted a divorce, and Virginia's father, regretting his treatment of Lew, effects a reconciliation between him and Virginia, and they are married. On the night Virginia's child is born, Jessie comes to nurse her, and Lew humbly seeks a means of reparation for his failure; he agrees to finance a hospital for poor children and thereby ensures her happiness.
- The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.
- After boxer Billy Barton gives blood to save the life of a seriously injured opponent, he becomes so weak that he can no longer fight. This prompts him to return to his former job as a jockey. He helps a horse-ranch owner to transport a thoroughbred to a big race in Kentucky. Then, when circumstances lead to their arrest, Billy is let out of jail in time to enter and win a boxing match for the purse, which he then uses to finance his entry in the race. Billy rides the horse to victory, thus saving the rancher and winning the hand of the rancher's daughter.
- The first of a series of twelve-proposed features starring ex-prizefighter Billy Sullivan. He plays a washed-up, drifting fighter, reduced to the job of a cook in a small-town diner. But when a fighter fails to show up, Billy is called on to substitute and take a beating. Billy has other plans.
- A young millionaire's life is turned upside down when his twin brother, an escaped convict, begins to impersonate him.
- A romance, started during World War I in France, between an American soldier and a French girl, finds its climax a few years later in an American mining town.
- A dim-witted American is caught up with arms dealers in South America.
- Daphne Carrol, once a "plain Jane," returns from Paris a "polished" flapper, and finding that her love for Custis Lee, her sister's brother-in-law, is not reciprocated, sets out to win him. His brother, Jack Lee, managing editor of the local newspaper, orders a conspicuous report of Daphne's return, but through an error her picture appears over a news item citing the escape from an insane asylum of Sally Long, bent on revenge on her husband. Daphne gains entrance to Custis' house and poses as Sally, disclaiming him as her husband. Fearful of his life, he humors her until he can engage a nurse to watch her. Daphne enjoys the joke until she discovers that her nurse is actually Sally--and Sally's husband tries to rob the Custis home. In the merry mix-up Daphne faints in Custis' arms and is forced to declare that she is his wife; after the complications are resolved, they decide to make the arrangement legal.
- Billy Griffin, who is in love with Catherine Curtis, the daughter of fight promoter James Curtis, must fight her father in order to win her hand in marriage. Despite his ignorance of boxing, Billy puts on the gloves, and the elder Curtis knocks him senseless. When Billy awakens, he has lost his memory. Billy is later sentenced to 90 days in jail, where his cellmate, a former boxer, sees he has a natural punch and teaches him the fistic art. After his release, Billy becomes a boxer and is soon successful enough to be matched with the light heavyweight champion, Young Dillon. Suddenly, Billy regains his memory and remembers nothing of his days as a fighter. He enters the ring with the champ, and for several rounds he is badly beaten. However, Catherine taunts Billy, calling him "yellow" until he becomes greatly angered. He handily wins the fight, but refuses to speak to Catherine. After learning she was only using his anger to save him, Billy chases after her taxi cab and, after leaping on the roof of the speeding vehicle, wins her for his bride.
- While making a series of boxing exhibitions, "Lightning" Bradley, the lightweight champion, is matched with Billy Morris in a small western town. Bradley knocks Billy out, and Billy, looking for a revenge rematch, follows the champ from town to town, taunting him and "getting his goat." Billy follows Bradley to Hollywood, where the champ is making a picture. Billy gets a chance to box Bradley before the cameras in what is expected to be a set-up, and knocks him out. Bradley's manager tries to stop the story from getting into the newspapers, but Billy outraces his thugs and breaks the news. He also wins Virginia Avery, the star of the film.
- After Rex leaves his father to follow his dream of being a professional boxer, he becomes the trainer at a women's gym owned by his girlfriend.
- Happy-go-lucky Billy, his best friend and their friendly rival, are all sailors on a ship in the U.S. Pacific fleet. While on shore leave, Billy learns that a mad inventor has created a dangerous contraption by which he intends to destroy the entire fleet. The three sailors then spring into action and are able to thwart the scientist and save the fleet after rescuing Billy's sweetheart.
- A couple recall their son's death in the war whilst a singer (on stage) sings 'Tommy Lad,' 'Land of Hope and Glory,' etc.
- Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
- Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
- A native Californian guide is discharged by the leader of a wagon train because he dares to make love to the latter's daughter. Sometime later he comes upon them again and is in time to save the girl he loves from an attack by the Indians.
- Helene is forced into marrying blackmailer Vaughan Neil, who holds incriminating evidence of a scandal involving her father. In a struggle with the girl the villain is killed, and she is suspected. But eventually she is cleared and finds happiness with the Mountie assigned to the case.