Rich Auntie Flora sends a portrait of herself to her niece and nephew-in-law, who consign it to the attic as Auntie is not expected to visit any time soon. When she arrives unannounced the next day, they have to scramble to hang the picture on the wall, lest they offend Auntie and risk being left...

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...

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...

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...

On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.

The Spats mail-order a fire engine and decide to hold a fire drill to test it, accidentally burning down their house in the process.

The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police.

Newlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat’s brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff.

Amateur detective Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, but his bungling leads him to the Coffin Club, a fraternal organization with a morbid sense of humor just itching to have some fun at the would-be sleuth’s expense.

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.

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.

Squire Lang has his eye on the widow Walters but so does his archnemesis, Bart Cullum. On the night of the harvest festival, all the farmers gather round to tell spooky stories. These tales of ghouls and ghosts give the Squire an idea for how to scare off his rival.

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.

A man’s daughter stands to inherit three millions dollars on the condition that she marry within a month, but she refuses, saying that nobody loves her. Not wanting to lose the money, Father hires a gang of cowboys to kidnap his daughter as well as a suitable husband while he goes to get the Just...

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...

On their honeymoon, Tammas and Mary have a bit too much to drink. The next thing they know, they are crash landing a balloon on a South Sea island. They are swarmed by cannibals, but the menacing headhunters back away in awe when Tammas begins playing his enchanted bagpipes.

Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué’s loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.

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...

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.

Billy tries to win over his girlfriend’s father, who imagines himself to be a great hunter, by disguising himself as a man-eating bear.

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man’s car and kidnaps his girlfriend.

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.

Ellen’s father refuses to allow her to marry Lieutenant Cholmodeley until he has proved himself to be a brave soldier. When war breaks out between England and Russia, the Lieutenant is called to the Crimea and Ellen follows as a nurse under Florence Nightingale. There, she witnesses her lover cas...

Latude effects escape after legendary escape while he is pursued by Siki for stealing all the farm’s eggs in this early Dippy-Doo-Dad comedy with an all-animal cast.