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A history professor has a chance meeting with an infamous outlaw and eventually assumes leadership of his gang.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Bassanio loves heiress Portia, and to help his friend the merchant Antonio hesitatingly borrows money from Jewish money lender Shylock. The deal: If Antonio can't repay the debt Shylock may cut a pound of meat out of Antonio's body.

A boatload of 413 women is shipped to then underpopulated colonial Australia, so they can get busy with the men there to do some propagating.

A detective poses as a simpleton to uncover gun-runners using an abandoned railway line.

In a Swiss winter resort, Lydia Boysen, who has just divorced from her husband, meets the young ski instructor Dagfin Holberg. It doesn't take long before they both fall in love with each other. One day her ex-husband Axel shows up, not long after he had tried to set Lydia up with the much older, rich Turkish man Sabi Bey. A little later, Alex Boysen is found lying dead in the snow. Dagfin and Lydia suspect each other of killing Boysen. To protect Lydia, Dagfin takes all the blame. Not entirely unselfish, he receives full support in his actions from Sabi Bey, who also promises to help Dagfin escape. The Turkish general hopes to get closer to his goal in this way and finally win Lydia over. Lydia, in turn, is ready to sacrifice herself for Dagfin. In order to be sure of Sabi Bey's support for the fugitive Dagfin, she follows the Muslim despot, who was once responsible for a massacre of Armenians and only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, to his castle in southern Germany. As luck would have it, Dagfin has gone into hiding right next door, on Colonel von Gain's neighboring estate. Meanwhile, Tilly, the colonel's daughter, has fallen head over heels in love with the reclusive permanent guest. Sabi Bey gradually realizes that he won't let Lydia down in the future and swallows poison out of desperation. Dying, he confesses that he killed Axel Boysen in self-defense as Boysen was blackmailing him. Lydia and Dagfin can now look into the future together.

Melodrama of a boy taken from his family, adopted by a coachman,who grows up to be secretary to the minister of Justice, and to uncover dark plots, spearheaded by a femme fatale, that affected his own life and the lives of others.

Tom Winston is a circus acrobat who uses his strength and athleticism to save a helpless infant stolen by an ape and dragged to the top of a factory chimney.

A prize fighter heads to the logging camps of the north woods to recuperate where he encounters romance and opposition. Unwittingly Sills becomes a tool for a criminal lumber gang that sought to use Sills' pugilistic abilities to its advantage. The daughter of one of the victims makes Sills understand the situation, which culminates with Sills fighting fiercely with the six-foot-seven-inch John Kolb in the turbulent river waters as a log jam breaks apart.

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.