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- A satire on American films, in which Shakespeare's Macbeth is performed as it might be imagined performed in an American film. (The film was prepared as part of a live benefit for the YMCA attended by the British royal family. Edmund Gwenn (QV) appeared onstage but not on film as the American producer.)
- An idiot heir helps a wounded prince save the princess from forced marriage to a usurper.
- In Paris, a cynical widower makes his daughter become a crooked dancer, but she is reformed by love.
- A clown's daughter refuses to marry a comedian to please her adoptive parents.
- A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child.
- An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
- An amnesiac tramp denounces the head of a benevolent institute as the false heir to an Australian tin mine.
- A dying musician's son turns beggar, is adopted by a violin maker, and marries his daughter.
- A potter's confession to killing his brother gets turned into a vase beneath which it was hidden.
- Stories illustrate a discussion on whether God's greatest gift is humanity, piety, love, intellect, or self-sacrifice.
- A concertina player rises to fame on a poor violinist's music.
- A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
- A Socialist weds a pregnant laundress and becomes the first Labour MP
- A Captain adopts a his friend's son who is later blackmailed by his gypsy mother.
- A rich banker's eldest daughter marries her servant.
- A squire's son weds the fishergirl who saved his life, becomes a docker's leader, and weds the Lady he loves on his wife's death.
- A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face peering through the window but is identified by a revived corpse.
- A guest's discovery saves a rich girl from eloping with her own father.