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Un arqueólogo británico encuentra una antigua aldea que abre la puerta a una historia de un druida Ministre Airell en el tiempo Cristo y la agitación religiosa, revelando los misterios de Briton, los druidas, la llegada de un nuevo mundo.

A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

A visitor to Mexico meets a lovely senorita living with an abusive uncle. After his gambling winnings attract the attention of robbers, she sees a way out of her lousy situation.

Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.

The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.

An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

"Marie, I bequeath you my life and soul." With these words the artist Waldimir crowned his devotion to the invalid model whom he loved so dearly that, at the bidding of the crystal gazer, he took poison and freed the spirit which would enter Marie's ailing body and renew her health. From that hour Marie grew stronger. Doctor Davidoff, the eminent scientist who had pronounced her case hopeless, was amazed. He told of the remarkable cure to Pierre Loriot, the artist, whose bosom friend. Jacques De Vignes. was a victim of failing health. Pierre had come to that point in life where the will to live is enfeebled. Clemence Villa, the actress renowned as a heartbreaker, had made him riotously happy for a few months until he discovered her baseness. Then, wishing to die, he sought justification for suicide in the desire to benefit his friend. He little thought that Juliette, Jacques' sister, loved him hopelessly. Scouting Waldimir's example, he threw himself into the sea. From that moment Jacques began to mend. Once more active in society, he met Clemence and fell victim to her wiles. When she demanded money he was shocked, but even that did not cool his passion for her. At last he learned from her own lips that the bills which annoyed her had been paid by a foreign nobleman. It seemed to him then that the portrait of Pierre, who had given him his soul, rebuked him for his folly. At this time Doctor Davidoff, traveling in Corsica, made a startling discovery. Pierre had been saved from the sea by fishermen. The doctor insisted that he return home. Juliette was overjoyed, but Jacques fell mortally ill on Pierre. Too late, Clemence came to see her victim, but they would not permit her to profane his last moments. He was already dying. The soul of Pierre, which had sustained him, was the soul of Pierre, and Pierre needed that soul with which to love Juliette.

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, they were vastly different morally. Jose was a dutiful son and upright young man, while Manuel was the black sheep. It was on Easter Sunday morning during the processional that Manuel appears in an intoxicated condition and foully ridicules the priests and acolytes as they enter the chapel of the old mission. At this the mother's pride is hurt beyond endurance and she exiles her profligate son from her forever. Manuel is shunned as a viper and while making his way along the road, meets Pedro, the notorious political outlaw, who sympathizes with him and offers him inducements to join him, and so takes him to his camp. Meanwhile, Jose woos and wins the Red Rose of Capistran and the day for the wedding is set. Manuel finds the life in the outlaws' camp palls, and, drawn by irresistible memories, he visits his home village, Here he is shot in the arm by his brother, who hounds him, and escapes further injury by hiding among the ruins of the mission, where he is discovered later by the Rose and her girl companion, who relieve his agony by dressing his wounded arm. He goes back to the outlaw camp with a firm purpose of revenge. The wedding of Jose and the Red Rose has taken place and the young couple start for their new home with their friends, by the coach. On this coach is also the rich dowry chest. This the outlaw learns and here appears the brother's chance for revenge, so gathering together the band to pursue the wedding party, they overtake the coach, but not until Pedro has fallen and Manuel assumes leadership. Jose is dragged from the conveyance and brought before his brother, who is about to dispatch him, when the bride and her friend rush up. He now sees that they and his succor when wounded at the mission are the same, hence he allows all to go on their way unharmed. The little friend of the bride who assisted in aiding the wounded brother at the mission, fell in love with him at first sight, and at this second meeting she makes clear her feeling for him. He, on the other hand, is struck by the artlessness of the pretty little Senorita and later finds himself her willing slave, and it is with amazement that the villagers see her lead Manuel into the chapel. Thus he finds love the master to curb and finally dissipate his impious inclinations.

Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.

Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty.

Down and out, Dick sits in the park despairing until a friend approaches, who bids him cheer up and come with him to meet some swell folks at the tennis court. Dick makes quite an impression upon a young heiress and is invited to attend a house party to be given by her the following evening. He, of course, must wear a dress suit, and to effect this proper raiment he surreptitiously borrows his landlord's, but why spoil a good thing by saying more?

Jean Bertaud and his son, poachers, discover the body of a woman in a stream near the village of Orcival and notify Mayor Courtois, who summons M. Plantat, justice of the peace. At the home of Count de Tremorel, near-by, evidence of murder is found. The count and his wife, who are known to have received a large sum of money, are missing. The dead body is identified as that of the countess. The Bertauds are arrested. Suspicion is also directed toward Guespin, a gardener. Investigation discloses that the count and countess have been married less than six months. She was the widow of the count's friend, Sauvresy, who had idolized his wife. Lecoq, the famous detective, enters the case and determines that the elaborate evidences of murder have been carefully arranged. The mayor's daughter, Laurence, disappears. Later her father receives a note to the effect that she has been dishonored and will commit suicide. Lecoq traces the note and finds Laurence. Prior to this, however, he becomes suspicious of one Robet, a bone-setter, who shows alarm when informed that Sauvresy's body is to he disinterred. Plantat, the justice, opens a secret drawer in the Tremorel house and reveals some history: ruined by excesses, de Tremorel had determined on suicide when Kenny Fancy, demimondaine, restrained him. His friend Sauvresy had offered him a home. Between him and Mme. Sauvresy was born a guilty passion. Sauvresy died of slow poison. Discovered by their victim, de Tremorel and Bertha had been forced to wed a year after his death, on pain of exposure through papers left in the lawyer's hands. After the marriage the guilty pair had quarreled bitterly because of the count's passion for Laurence. The murder had resulted. Lecoq discovers Tremorel with Laurence. The girl urges her betrayer to kill himself in order to cheat the guillotine. Coward, he refuses. Laurence then avenges her honor by shooting Tremorel. Plantat, who loves her in spite of all, hears Lecoq justify the act. He marries Laurence.

With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country. A half-breed learns of the reward, trails him, and, coming upon the bandit asleep, is afraid to take him single-handed. He goes for aid, leaving behind him a copy of the advertisement by which he has recognized his man. Awaking Texas Pete finds the paper, pockets it and decamps. His horse tiring, he abandons the animal and seeks cover in a rancher's barn. The half-breed, coming to the ranch, frightens the rancher's wife. She seizes her husband's rifle. The half-breed snatches up her child, and holding it as a shield, backs into the barn. She drops the rifle and rushes after him. Texas Pete, hidden in the hay, shoots the half-breed. The rancher, hearing the shot and seeing his rifle on the ground, seizes it and shoots the bandit, who thus gives his life for another. Dying, he asks that the reward be paid to the child's mother.

Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking for Hobbs' secretary. Both are fired for an offense of which they are quite innocent, and while strolling in the park taking pictures with a Kodak, they hit upon a scheme which secures for them a reinstatement in their former positions, but not for long.

A bag of gold is missing from Count Dalberg's safe, he accuses Morel, his steward. Morel protests his innocence, but rather than suffer arrest, flees with his little daughter, Madelaine. Then, years later, Count Dalberg's gardeners dig up a withered rose bush and the missing bag of gold is entangled in its roots. It had been thrown there by the children, Julian, the Count's son, Marguerite, his daughter, and Madelaine Morel. Their bean bag had broken and they had taken one of the bags of gold as a substitute. The old Count dies of remorse and Julian sets out to find Morel and Madelaine. He finds Madelaine living with Merope, an actress. He takes her home, falls in love with her and is about to make her his wife when Von Armin, a young nobleman who is engaged to Julian's sister Marguerite, comes and recognizes Madelaine as his former mistress. This is on the day Von Armin is to wed Marguerite. The story ends at the church, where Merope denounces Von Armin as the author of Madeline's ruin. Marguerite scorns Von Armin, and tearing off her bridal veil, leaves with her mother and Madelaine, while the broken-hearted Julian remains to pray with the gentle priest, the Abbe Valmont.

Armed men, under command of the United States marshal, invade the mountain fastnesses in search of an illicit still. Blake, the moonshiner, and his partner, Jim, are in imminent peril of discovery when Blake, in a fit of ungovernable passion, shoots the marshal's son from ambush. The young man is only slightly wounded and soon recovers, but Jim makes Blake believe that his victim is dead, because he desires Mary Blake, the moonshiner's daughter. Mary is an unusual girl, far superior to her class, and she despises Jim. In the woods she meets by chance a young man like none whom she has ever seen, and returns his love. He is Arthur Van Buren, a novelist on vacation. Haunted by fears of her father's threat to make her marry Jim, Mary one day yields to her sweetheart's entreaties and accompanies him to the little church, where they are married. Van Buren is summoned home by the sudden illness of his father, and Mary, left alone, is forced to attend a dance at which Jim plans to announce his engagement to her. There is a stormy scene at home, in which Blake thunders that Mary shall marry nobody but Jim. Her defiance of this mandate results in her being locked in for the night. She climbs through the window and escapes, leaving a note in which she says: "Even though I may have been deceived and deserted by the one I love, I will end it all rather than marry Jim." Reaching the river, she pushes a boat into midstream, and leaves her sunbonnet dangling from a thwart to give the impression that she has fallen from the boat and drowned. The plan succeeds, and her parents mourn for her. At the river's edge Blake discovers Jim's trick on seeing the marshal's son ride by with the posse, and turns ferociously upon his former partner, who, cowed by Blake's pistol, skulks away. Van Buren's father dies, and the novelist returns to the mountains for Mary. Her father, believing him a scoundrel, attacks him, but Van Buren's evidence of grief over the news of Mary's death convinces the moonshiner of his innocence, and the mourners comfort each other. Back in town, Van Buren cannot find relief from his bereavement. Time passes, then one day the novelist's car knocks down a woman with a baby in her arms. Van Buren, rushing to pick her up, looks into the face of his lost Mary. She is not badly hurt, but he takes her to a hospital, where she recovers and recognizes her husband. She tells him her adventures since the day they parted, ending with her discharge from the hospital where her baby was born. But of the hardships she has undergone she says little, that is her secret, a thing the mountain girl is proud to bear in memory as her silent tribute to the destiny which brought her into a new life. Tenderly he removes her to his home, where she is welcomed by his mother.

Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

Niel Musgrave plans to elope with Mrs. Vane but his uncle, Sir Anthony, threatens to disinherit him, and he goes away with the promise that when she is free he will marry her. In the north of England he meets Brenda, daughter of the Reverend Mr. Marston, and falls in love with her. The old clergyman dies suddenly, and Noel, who dares not marry Brenda openly in defiance of his uncle, takes her to Withiel, on the Scotch side of the border where, in the presence of her retainer Hamish and another witness, they are married according to the Scotch law. Five years later, Colonel Tressider, Sir Anthony's bosom friend, is on a hunting trip through the North of England when he meets Noel and informs him that his uncle has died, leaving him fortune and title. Amy Vane is free to marry him. Noel, tired of Brenda, is persuaded by Tressider to forsake her, inasmuch as Withiel is not on the Scotch side of the border and they are not legally married. Brenda takes their child, Roy, and departs, warning Noel that he who sows shall reap the harvest. Noel marries Amy Vane. Fifteen years later she dies, and her daughter Lettice meets Roy, now a fledgling artist under the assumed name of Mitchell. Noel learns that Roy is his son. Brenda makes Roy swear to obey her blindly, then tells him that he can never marry Lettice. She scorns Noel's plea for forgiveness, even when he tells her that Tressider had been in error about the legality of their marriage. But in the end her pride is broken, and she obeys the dictates of her heart, finding happiness again with Noel and the young lovers.

Suffering from a nervous breakdown, the actress is ordered to the country. On the farm she meets a country bumpkin who falls in love with her and neglects his sweetheart. At first the affair amuses her, but when she learns of the girl's love for the rube, she gives him the cold shoulder. That does not make him return to his first love, however, so the actress decks the girl in one of her own beautiful costumes as a bait to love's eyes. But her beauty thus adorned still fails to impress the rube, so the actress tries another plan. She invites her sweetheart from the city to visit her, and introducing him to the girl, demands that he pretend to be in love with her, so as to arouse the rube's jealousy. He refuses, but she persuades him, and he sets out for a walk with the girl. He does make the rube jealous, and the latter tries to enlist the aid of the actress in reclaiming his sweetheart, but she laughs at him. The laugh is on her, however, when her sweetheart falls in love with the girl and elopes with her, then sends back a message stating that she shouldn't have egged him on to it.

False entries in the bank's books serve to cover up the peculations of Stephen Eldridge, the cashier, but the discovery of the fraud results in the imprisonment of John Gordon, the paying teller. Gordon implores his wife to keep his little son in ignorance of the disgrace, and vows that he will clear his name someday. Time passes, and Eldridge is made president of the bank. About the same time Gordon is made a trusty in prison. He takes advantage of his freedom to escape and makes his way to on him to effect his getaway. Questioned as to the source of the money, she replies that an old friend of Gordon, who wishes to remain unknown, sends her a monthly remittance through a lawyer. Gordon half guesses the truth and makes his way to Eldridge's home, where the bank president, seeing him looking through a window, believes it an apparition conjured up by his guilty conscience. Gordon assumes the disguise of a scissors grinder, and thus contrives to keep in close touch with his wife. Douglas Gordon goes to college and there meets the son of his father's betrayer. William Eldridge is a dissolute junior, always in debt. He has secretly married Marie Abbot, a showgirl, and she demands money. He goes to his father and is severely lectured for his bad habits. On the table he sees a memorandum of his father's payments to Mrs. Gordon, and uses this knowledge to force money from his father. Later, at college, he quarrels with Douglas Gordon over a game of cards and taunts him: "You're the son of a thief, living on my father's bounty." Douglas is restrained by the presence of the girl he loves, Eleanor Curzon, daughter of Stephen Eldridge's old friend. He departs to ask his mother if what he has heard is true. When she tells him the story, his one thought is to establish his father's innocence. When William Eldridge taunts his father with paying conscience money to the embezzler's wife, John Gordon, in his disguise of a scissors grinder, is watching at the window and overhears the words. His son resolves to get possession of the incriminating document, and goes to the Eldridge home late at night. His father follows him at a distance. Stephen Eldridge is giving a house party for Eleanor. After the guests have retired, Eleanor returns to the study in search of her handbag. Hearing footsteps, she secrets herself in a closet. William Eldridge enters the room and proceeds to rob his father's safe. Marie has threatened to reveal his marriage to his father, and rendered desperate he will stop at nothing to buy her silence. He is interrupted by the entrance of Douglas Gordon. The latter finds the safe open and ransacks it. Eventually he finds, not the paper he seeks, but a signed confession of Stephen Eldridge's crime. As he turns to go, William grapples with him, revolver in hand. Eleanor screams, and the household is aroused. Stephen Eldridge, entering, is shot by his son's weapon. Police enter, and William charges Douglas with burglary. But Eleanor intervenes and accuses William as the thief. At this juncture John Gordon enters, and Stephen Eldridge looks into the face of the man he has wronged. Dying, he backs up his written confession by a declaration of his guilt.