A religious old mountaineer desires that his son become a friar, but on the way to the mission he meets the daughter of a widowed baker and heeds the call of love.

Misanthrope Raymond Ferray’s life of peace and quiet is disrupted by the arrival of his new neighbors the Rovels. Lady Rovel designs on marrying her daughter Meg to the much older Marquis de Boisgenêt. Her mother agrees not to force her, however, if she can find a suitable alternative. Raymond, w...

Orphan Oliver Twist becomes an unwilling member of Fagin’s band of thieves.

Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack’s adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.

Jimmy’s wife Jeanne falls for Proctor Maddox, a socialist and feminist activist, and wants a divorce. To avoid the scandal, Jimmy stages a fake suicide instead, but he forgot to leave his will where it could be found.

During King Richard’s illness, his sworn enemy the Duke of Monserrat steals the English flag from the crusader camp. To avenge the insult, Richard decrees that Monserrat must engage in mortal combat with Sir Kenneth, the king’s favorite knight. Richard, the Lion-Hearted is an early Italian adapta...

In pre-conquest Mexico, the Azteque and Maya are at war. Tonga, chief of the Maya, is captured and threatened to be sacrificed by Montezuma. Princess Tacki, daughter of the Azteque chieftain, has fallen in love with the captive and works to free him.

After her husband dies at sea, Madeline travels to the city to study sculpture but her tutor has a more than professional interest in her.

Juliet’s father, unknowing that she is secretly wed to Romeo, commands her to marry Paris. She and her friend, Friar Lawrence, come up with a plan: Juliet will take a drug that will make her appear to die. After the funeral, Romeo will retrieve her and they will run away together without her fami...

Sue tries to reform Satan Town, the wickedest place on earth, running afoul of Malamute and his minions.

Walter Grey, the son of a family of New York social climbers, moves out west to a rustic mining town to escape from the pressures of society. He falls in love with Mary, a horse rider from a traveling circus. To the great disappointment of Walter’s family, the two marry and return to New York. Th...

When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but “Wirenail” Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight.

Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.

Frustrated by her lonely life as the wife of a station master, Kitty Manning decides to leave her husband to become a singer in the big city. On her way to San Francisco, she is delayed at a station even more isolated than her own and the husband and wife there make Kitty question whether she mad...

When a heartless creditor comes to foreclose on an old man’s farm, his daughter’s fiancé pawns his watch and stakes it all on the long shot at the horse race.

A posse forms to track down a band of cattle rustlers after a rancher offers $500 reward for their capture.

Farmer boy Johnny Madden travels to the city and falls in love with Capella, a dancer at a musical revue. His mother is heartbroken at her beloved son’s flying the nest and that the woman he has flown to is a common actress. She had always intended that he would marry their neighbor, Daisy Brown,...

To gain access to a moonshiner, a detective marries his sister. He abandons her after the arrest is made but his conscience haunts him.

When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant’s playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor ex-convict trying to go straight.

Pete and Buck are mining partners. Word comes that Pete’s wife and daughter are on their way out west to see him, but Pete is killed in a blasting accident and Ella in an Indian attack. Nellie is left in the care of Buck, who has never had any patience for children.

When the trestle her son’s train is about to cross is struck by lightning, a mother must find some way to warn him of the danger ahead.

Doreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who has skipped town to avoid arrest. Doreon vows to find Blake and bring him back.

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

Back in college, John Ballard saved Philip Hardin’s life. Twenty years later, John is the district attorney and Philip is president of a railroad notorious for its accident record. When John brings a suit against the railroad, Philip threatens to reveal a ruinous secret about John unless he drops...