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The Great Outdoors
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.
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Let's Build
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.
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Spying the Spy
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.
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The Fatherhood of Buck McGee
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.
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Ben Hur
Jerusalem is in a state of rebellion against its Roman overlords. During a Roman procession, Judah Ben Hur wounds Valerius Gratus when he accidentally shakes loose a roof tile and it falls on the procurator. Messala — once Ben Hur’s friend, now a Roman legionary — betrays him and he is sent to th...
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The Heart of Doreon
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.
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Just Maine Folks
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.
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Man’s Calling
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.
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Three Million Dollars
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...
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Station Content
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...
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An Unusual Honeymoon
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.
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The Little Country Mouse
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.
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The Juggernaut
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...
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Smashing Barriers
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.
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Billy, the Bear Tamer
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.
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Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies
Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man’s car and kidnaps his girlfriend.
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The Doll-House Mystery
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.
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The Victoria Cross
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...
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Across the Mexican Line
During the Mexican Revolution, a female spy for the Mexican guerrilla fighters falls in love with an American lieutenant. When he is captured and threatened with execution, she turns to the Americans for help by climbing a telegraph pole, tapping the wire, and sending out a distress call.
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Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva rides naked through the streets of Coventry to save her people from an onerous tax in this short based on Tennyson’s poem “Godiva".
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Somebody Lied
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.
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The Soilers
In this parody of The Spoilers, Bob Canister strikes it rich in the Alaskan gold rush only to find himself plunged into a tumultuous battle with Smacknamara, a claim-jumper who, with the aid of the underhanded sheriff, has stolen Canister’s find.