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- Clara plays wealthy Prudence Severin, whose reckless, profligate behavior causes nothing but headaches for her father. A detective (Lee Moran) is hired to protect Prudence from herself, but to no avail.
- A day in the life of a hapless plumber and his bumbling assistant, flirting with a customer's daughter, a dangerous drive, plumbing a house and fixing a flooded bathroom. Good help is hard to come by.
- Bobby Dunn has been shipped out of one city by the sheriff, for the reason that he absolutely refuses to work and is therefore considered undesirable as a citizen. He arrives in a mail sack and the sheriff immediately tries to see to it that he gets work, but Bobby is successful in eluding job after job until finally, in his attempt to escape, he lands in a training camp where a heavy-weight. prize fighter is getting ready for a championship battle. The fighter, badly in need of sparring partners, takes Bobby on and knocks him out with the first punch. While out, Bobby dreams that he is so successful that he becomes the fighter's manager and trains him for the fight. The fighter has a very attractive sister with who Bobby falls in love. On the day of the fight the fighter falls and breaks his arm and Bobby says that he will go into the ring in his stead. He does, when to his horror he finds that his opponent is the official who has been causing him so much trouble. He gets very much the worst of the fight until he succeeds in grabbing a hammer and stuffing it into his glove, promptly knocks out everybody in the ring and the entire audience. The girl, very much impressed, embraces him and he wakes up to find that it was only a dream and the disgusted sheriff puts him back in the mail sack and ships him back to the city from which he came.
- Two prospectors, one the father of Skye "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate. The sheriff also informs Kate that Lightning's father killed her father, and she immediately turns against Lightning. "Powder" Solvang also knows the story behind the knife and the string, and is determined to gain possession of both, even to the extent of making Kate his prisoner in an opium den in Chinatown.
- An intense rivalry exists between the post-man and the leading soda clerk of Hay Centre, who are suitors for the hand of the prettiest girl in town. An automobile race, agreed upon as a method of deciding to whom the lady is to give her hand, has a number of intensely humorous complications. The mail-man loses out and the final fadeout shows the happy victor riding off triumphant with the girl.
- This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
- Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
- Big Elk and Che-wee-na, both of the Great Bear tribe, are engaged to be married. White Wolf, the son of the chief of another tribe, offers to buy Che-wee-na; when her father refuses, Little Wolf challenges Big Elk to a physical contest that Big Elk wins. Embittered, Little Wolf provokes a war between the tribes, abducting Che-wee-na while Big Elk and the other Great Bear warriors are away from their camp. Che-wee-na feigns insanity among Little Wolf's people, who think that she is in communication with the great spirits. She wins the gratitude of the tribe when she nurses a sick child to health, but in so doing incurs the jealousy of the tribe's medicine man, who accuses her of poisoning the tribe's water supply. Che-wee-na is about to be burned at the stake when Big Elk and his warriors rescue her. The lovers are united among their people.
- Bobby Dunn arrives on board a freight train in the town of Angels' Rest. Instead of finding a peaceful little village as the name would imply, it is the abode of some desperate characters - one of them being Black Wolf for whose capture $10,000 reward is offered. Bobby doesn't get far in the town when he meets Black Wolf's gang shooting up another gang. Black Wolf gets captured and for some reason Bobby gets credit for being the captor and is immediately awarded a badge, and to crown it all the village beauty falls in love with him. However, Black Wolf escapes from jail again and again, but the third time he sets out to get Bobby, captures him when dynamite doesn't end his life, hangs him from a tree. The village beauty is on the job and rides up and shoots the rope from which Bobby is suspended and he falls into her arms.
- Bobby is a sandwich man who is in love with Vera Pretty, a motion picture star. The story concerns his efforts to get into the studio to see her. He succeeds several times, each time butting in on the scene and being thrown out. The picture that Vera is making is about an escaped convict. In a nearby prison a convict is about to be executed. He make his escape and Bobby buys his convict suit from him in order to get into the picture with Vera. The guards capture him, believing him to be the escaped convict. He finally escapes from them and flees to Vera and begs her to save him. He again butts in and as this is a scene that the director is trying to take for some time and he does it so well, the director offers him a leading part in the next picture. He is delighted but when Vera says no one shall play the lead except her husband, he goes back to the prison to be executed.
- This feature film from 1916 tells the story of South Africa's Boer pioneers in their epic trek across southern Africa in search of new land. It concentrates on the struggle against Zulu inhabitants, which the Boers eventually won at the Battle of Blood River in 1938.
- After he is told of the death of his wife, Dora, in a hotel fire, Dr. Howard Fleming goes to the country hoping to ease his sorrow. While visiting a farm, he falls in love with and marries Dolly Perkins, who--unbeknownst to Howard--is Dora's sister. Howard is later told that Dora is actually alive, though hopelessly insane. He restores her sanity with surgery, but when Dora learns of Howard's bigamy, she has a relapse. A second operation kills her; Howard returns to Dolly, their child, and a happy future.
- Hope Dugan rescues young Jim McTavish from a beating at the hands of his cruel father, who then is himself beaten in a fight with Hope's father. Seeking revenge, Red kills Dugan and is hanged, leaving Jim and Hope orphaned. They are adopted by two old miners, Sam Hawks and Bill Higgins, who later sell their mine to send Hope to school but are robbed of the money by Brandt, who has offered to buy the claim. Jim learns of Brandt's treachery and recovers the money in a holdup but is arrested. Hope returns to find that Sam has died, and she believes that Jim is dead too until Bill tells her he is being framed for robbery. She and Bill hold up the stagecoach and rescue Jim, pretending to shoot him. United and free again, Hope and Jim face a happy life together.
- Prologue: Conrad LaGrange proposes marriage to Mary Gibson. She refuses him and marries Aaron King and they welcome son Aaron King, Jr. John Willard, who does not approve of the intimacy between his sister Myra, and James Rutledge, provokes a quarrel with Rutledge. Thinking he has killed him, Willard goes West. A baby is born to Myra, who does not know that Rutledge has a wife. Mrs. Rutledge learns of it. Crazed with jealousy, she seeks Myra, throws acid in her face, marring her for life; then commits suicide. With Myra's permission, Rutledge takes the baby to raise with his son, James Rutlidge, Jr., and shares his wealth equally between them. Myra refuses his offers of money, and writes to John Willard, her brother, asking for help. In California, he holds up a mail stage to get money for her fare West. Willard is arrested. Myra, ignorant of this, goes to Graymont, California. Not finding her brother, she wanders into the mountains and to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andres, who take her in. She is like a mother to Sybil, Andres' only child. Years pass. Aaron King, in financial difficulties and disgrace, dies. LaGrange, who has prospered, pays some of Mrs. King's debts and again asks her to marry him. She refuses, saying her life belongs to her boy. Mrs. King, sacrifices all to keep Aaron, her son, now a young man, in a Paris art school. Graduating with high honors, he receives word that his mother is ill, and rushes home in time to see her die. The Story: Twenty-five years have elapsed. Aaron King, Jr. leaves for the West. On the same train are Gertrude Taine; her husband Edward Taine, a wreck many years her senior; and Mrs. Taine's stepdaughter Louise Taine. They are met by James Rutledge, Jr. Myra, who now lives in Fairlands, recognizes Mrs. Taine and Rutledge. King becomes acquainted with LaGrange. Friendship springs up between the pair. King is commissioned to paint Mrs. Taine's portrait. He and LaGrange take a cottage next, to Sybil and Myra. Rutledge annoys Sybil with his attentions. King and LaGrange meet Sybil. Mrs. Taine becomes infatuated with King. John Willard (now known as John Marston) escapes from prison. He meets Rutledge, who befriends him and bides him in a mountain cabin. Mrs. Taine is pleased with the portrait. As King contrasts Sybil with Mrs. Taine, he sees the latter as a designing soul in a beautiful body. Refusing to let her have the portrait, he asks her to pose again. Thinking she has infatuated King, she consents. He also paints Sybil's portrait. Mrs. Taine gives a reception in honor of King and LaGrange. She tries to influence King by causing Sybil to play her violin as one of the paid performers. Mr. Taine collapses in the midst of a speech and is carried off, dying. Mrs. Taine, visiting King's studio, finds him absent. Sybil comes in. Mrs. Taine, bringing in the fact that Sybil was up in the mountains with Myra while LaGrange and King were on a camping trip in the mountains, convinces Sybil that the world thinks she is the artist's mistress. Sybil stops long enough to write a note for Myra, and then rides away. Myra tells King of Sybil's disappearance. He follows her, and enlists the aid of Brian Oakley, the forest ranger. Rutlidge learns of Sybil's departure. By threatening Marston with exposure, he forces him to kidnap Sybil. Marston takes her to a cabin. Oakley, King and a posse of men search the mountains for her. King goes to Granite Peak, but Rutledge gets there first. Rutledge makes the proposition that they throw down their guns and fight it out. As Rutledge is about to throw King over the cliff. Marston appears with Sybil, who begs him to save King. He shoots Rutledge, who topples over the cliff. Then Marston disappears. King and Sybil go back to town. Sybil has discovered that she loves King and that he loves her. Mrs. Taine goes to the studio. She sees herself on the canvas as King sees her, and flies into a rage. She threatens to blast King's career and to ruin Sybil's reputation. LaGrange, overhearing, brings Myra in and has her tell her story. As Mrs. Taine listens, she bares her shoulder, showing a scar which identifies her as Myra's daughter. LaGrange threatens if she ever speaks ill of Sybil or King to publish the story broadcast Mrs. Taine retreats. Later, Sybil, learning from LaGrange that King has completed his masterpiece, goes to the studio. King takes her in his arms.
- This surprisingly violent 15-episode serial takes place on the border between Texas and Mexico. When warned by Captain Jack of the Texas Rangers of impending trouble, elderly rancher Bill Burrel swears that Mexican cattle rustler Pancho won't do any riding or shooting in the area again. Pancho's lieutenant Santas, (who desires his boss's daughter Juanita's hand, and has been refused), overhears Burrel and decides to make things rough on Pancho by stirring up trouble for both sides. Pancho and his raiders, sworn to drive the settlers off the border country, attack the Burrel ranch and shoot Burrel dead, and his son Harry swears to make Pancho pay for his night's work. In the conflict that follows Pancho is knocked unconscious and his hands crushed in a press by masked men, apparently Texas Rangers. Though the torture is actually performed by the traitorous Santas and his cohort Rodriguez, Pancho blames the Rangers for the injury, swears revenge, and the two factions resolve to destroy each other. In succeeding chapters, Pancho and his ruthless gang menace Harry, his sweetheart Ruth and abduct Harry's younger sister Blanche, inflicting fiendish and deliberate tortures upon them. Pancho's demands are carried to his sworn enemies by the black-garbed "emissary of evil" the Masked Rider, who rides onto the scene without warning to kidnap, assault, or fire upon the Texas Rangers, their relatives, and even their horses. Pancho's daughter Juanita, frequently harassed by his men, is shocked by her father's cruelty and takes surreptitious action to prevent his murdering innocent captives when she can. She also falls in love with Captain Jack of the Rangers, which complicates matters even further. Rugged and outspoken "Ma Chadwick," Ruth's mother, helps the Rangers when Blanche and then Ruth are both kidnapped. Interesting shooting locations include a hacienda complex in Sabinas, Mexico, an ancient mission in San Antonio, the gigantic Medina Dam, at which a terrific action sequence was apparently almost thoroughly improvised (the scene does not appear in the original shooting script), and the "hole in the wall," a labyrinthine passage through the border mountains.
- Donald Britt (George Larkin) has an "unusal sort of brain" and induced by financial hardship, sells off the right to dissect his brain, AFTER his death, to a diabolical, scheming old professor, Dr. Bates (William Bechtel). But since the professor is many years older than Britt (with the Unusal Brain),and figures to outlive him, the anxious and unable-to-wait possessor holding the rights-to-dissect Britt's Unusal Brain, decides to hasten Britt's demise. Britt endures fourteen chapters of lurking peril, impending doom and hairbreadth cliffhangers before, with the aid of his sweetheart Phyllis Charlton (Anna Luther), the old professor meets his own untimely demise.
- "Hurricane" Smith (Francis Ford), head of a steamship company, plots to keep the railroad from entering the city. The map of the proposed route becomes the instrument by which Blake (Frank Baker) and Florence (Florence Gilbert) are harassed by Smith's gang and repeatedly are rescued by "Pinto Pete," (Ashton Dearholt) who is adept with a whip.
- Bobby, thrown out of his boarding house walks along the street carrying all his worldly possessions in a suitcase, bumps into a crook carrying a suit case of stolen jewels. The two suitcases (being alike in appearance) get mixed - Bobby getting the one containing the jewels. Realizing that detectives are after him he tries various ways to dispose of the troublesome suitcase. Whether he drops it on the street, or throws it on a passing trolley or auto truck, always the unwelcomed suitcase returns to him. As a last resort he throws it in a back yard, but a little dog picks it up in his mouth and "dogs" Bobby's very footsteps with it until he has to relieve him of it. Then the crook comes along and takes the suit case away from Bobby. Two detectives are working on the case, one a very charming young lady. Bobby immediately joins forces with her and between them they get the suitcase and return it to Smith and Co. (the people who have been robbed), only to find upon opening that it contains nothing but Bobby's old clothes. Suddenly the little dog is seen carrying the stolen suitcase containing the jewels, and Bobby and the lady give him a lively chase before they recover it from him. Luck turns and Bobby captures the crook, turns him over to the lady detective to arrest. The other detective working on the case gets jealous and decides he also must make an arrest just for the look of things, so he places the handcuffs on Bobby and takes him to jail.
- "One death, and thousands of lives restored to existence. For some useless life a thousand lives saved from decay and death. Shall not one little crime be effaced and atoned by a million good deeds?" So ran Rodion Raskolnikoff's creed in the book which was responsible for his being expelled from the University, but which elected him the leader of a secret brotherhood which admired him. The law proving too hot for him, he is finally forced to flee to America, still preaching his same doctrine. Rodion's heart is touched by the poverty on the East Side and he determines to kill a pawnbroker who mercilessly squeezes the poor unfortunates to their last cent. He accomplishes the deed, takes money from the safe, uses it for the needy and manages to keep the guilt from himself. But the crime is fastened on an innocent man, who, to escape further torture of a relentless third degree confesses to a crime he had no hand in. Then comes Rodion's struggle between his conscience and his creed, and through the guidance of a "lost sister of the streets," he rejects the faith he founded and acknowledges his guilt.
- When Tate Killaly and his daughter, Zelma, cross the river to the trading post of Henri Cocteau, located in a little Alaska town, Zelma is attacked by Quig Lanigan, Cocteau's tool and a man of evil impulses. A stranger steps in and saves her from harm. Zelma later finds the stranger suffering from snow blindness on the trail and takes him home to her cabin, where she nurses him back to health. Zelma and the stranger fall in love, and he tells her that he is a fugitive from justice and victim of injustice. Chitna, Zelma's Indian servant, goes into town for supplies and tells Tate and Cocteau of the stranger's presence. The men, who know there is a $5,000 reward for the stranger, go to the cabin and capture him. Zelma helps him escape, but when she is led to believe that the stranger has killed her father, she turns against him and is instrumental in his recapture. When she finds out that her father is alive, Zelma realizes her mistake and gets her father to help the stranger. Cocteau is killed in a snow-slide, and the stranger, Bruce McLaren, is informed that the real criminal has confessed, making Bruce a free man again.
- A scientist invents a poison gas; the villain and his gang will do anything to get the formula; our hero, "Lightning Hutch", is sent to save the scientist, the scientist's beautiful daughter, and the formula.
- Episode 1: "The Mystic Message of the Spotted Collar" Zudora, 18, has a guardian, Hassam Ali, a disciple of Hindu mysticism. Hassam Ali was a fakir with a small caravan circus. Zudora's mother was his sister and the rope walker. Zudora's father remained in a small mining town where he prospected for gold. As the story opens Zudora, her mother and Hassam Ali, her uncle, are visiting the town of Zudora's birth and where Zudora's father is still prospecting. Zudora's father finds that the Zudora mine yields a wonderful run of gold. He becomes over-zealous and is killed in an explosion. He wills the entire mine, which is valued at $20,000,000, to Zudora, when she reaches her eighteenth birthday, and in the event of Zudora's death, going to the nearest heir-at-law. Zudora's mother receives information of her husband's death when she is about to ascend the rope and give her performance. She falls to the ground, and with a dying gasp turns over to Hassam Ali the guardianship of Zudora. Zudora reaches her eighteenth year. Hassam Ali has set himself up as a mystic, but his one purpose in life is to rid himself of Zudora, so that the mine will be his. He is also anxious to rid himself of John Storm, Zudora's sweetheart. He has kept from Zudora the information about her inheritance. He at last arrives at one plan that seems safe. Zudora has evidenced quite wonderful powers of deduction. He tells her that since she has always been so anxious to incorporate herself in his work, he will give her the next twenty cases he is called upon to solve. He says: "If you win, you may marry John Storm. If you lose on any one of them, you renounce him forever." Zudora's sweetheart is involved in a great case for the city. Opposed to him is one Bienreith, a prominent lawyer. The case is going well for John Storm. Hassam Ali decides that after eighteen years of waiting it is time to use heroic measures. He denounces Storm in front of Zudora, and then tells her about the twenty cases. The very first thing in the courtroom, Storm slaps the face of Bienreith, after a particularly insulting speech, and is invited to a duel that night. An hour later the newspapers are full of her sweetheart's trouble. Zudora rushes to his side and finds him practicing with a revolver. She plans to keep him from meeting Bienreith. She purchases a drug, and drops it in a glass of drinking water. Next morning the papers tell of Storm's disappearance. The great mystery of it is that Bienreith has been found dead in his room and the blame placed upon John Storm. Storm is arrested. Zudora rushes to her uncle and begs that this be her first case. When she goes to Bienreith's home that morning she finds the collar that he had worn when killed. It has queer markings on it. She studies the lines carefully, but can make no headway. Storm is formally charged with the murder. She reaches the courtroom just in time to say, "Stop, he is not guilty...," and falls into a faint. Hassam Ali and Burns, a confederate, watch as the girl recovers and explains that she has solved the mystery. Burns is placing a revolver, equipped with a silencer against her neck, when she turns suddenly and takes a pencil from his pocket to prove her contention to the court. She realizes, in looking at the mark, that there is a similarity between the markings of Burns' pencil and the markings on the collar. Court is adjourned. Zudora induces Burns to accompany her home. Under hypnosis he confesses to killing Bienreith. Zudora had placed two lawyers behind the curtains and they hear the confession. Zudora has solved her first case and Hassam Ali congratulates her. In the courtroom Zudora clasps Storm in her arms as the judge proclaims him free.
- A woman confesses to her fiancee that she was involved in a scandalous incident with a former fiancee. After marriage, her past threatens to destroy their lives.
- Cigar counter girl Tessie tips off her mechanic boyfriend that a wealthy women is going to buy a car, and he leaves Tessie for Mrs. Welles.