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The ruler of a country agreed to give a greedy man all of the land that he could stake out on foot within a 24-hour period. The man ran the entire time and staked out a huge area. After he drove the last stake, things changed drastically.

A famous magician and escape-artist feels he is about to die and promises his fiancee and two friends that he will communicate with them after death. But things are complicated when he becomes a ghost who can't return.

Two former Confederate soldiers on a desolate island bemoan their bad fortune.

An embezzler is fleeing to Tasmania aboard a ship after a large theft that implicates him. His conscience troubles him and at Gibraltar he jumps overboard and finds he has made quite an error.

Adolphe Menjou takes viewers to the exotic city of Simla in India. Based on Rudyard Kipling's "Phantom Ricksaw," the play details the life of Jack Lindsay, Major in Her Majesty's India Army, and of the two women in his life.

A Scotland Yard Detective trails a former client to England, unaware that the man witnessed a murder.

Professor Bonnard helps a girl escape from an orphanage in Paris and is thus committed to a charge of kidnapping.

On a small island off the coast of Italy a fisherman tries to romance a timid girl in the village.

A story of fear, romance and gratitude.

A young man waits at a casino for his rich mother to die but instead she shows up at the club.

Mr. Bartleby, the scrivener, does what he wants to do, even if it means his death.

Adolphe Menjou plays the part of a penniless painter who bets a millionaire a million dollars he can voluntarily imprison himself for 10 years.

A New England station master finds a penny which creates a chain of events that almost leads to a man being electrocuted for a crime.

In Ireland the rebels bring in a professional saboteur to carry out their next act against the government.

A professional gambler Captain Rake is accused by Alex Gifford of cheating by talking the jack of hearts. Feeling his honor questioned Rake challenges the man to a duel.

In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?

An ex-convict's efforts to live within the law are continually being thwarted.

For three bed-ridden GI's in a German prison, knowledge of the world outside is confined to the observations of a lieutenant whose bed is next to a window.

The fateful tale of three young people who settle on desolate "Turtle Island" and whose lives become as storm-tossed as the skies and seas during a typhoon.

A professor and a sailor exchange identity.

A tattered derelict returns after 20 years to find his hometown busy raising a memorial statue to his heroic "death" in the first battle of Sudan.

A young man bargains for his soul with the devil. How he outsmarted Satan makes for the story.

A fanatical physician has devoted his studies preparing for his own vivisection so that his beating heart can be studied. The incision is made which allows the study of the normal heartbeat to be studied for the first time.

A judge rules his home as he does his courtroom.

A strange family feud between two brothers and a great sin that has repercussions are the basic ingredients for the Guy de Maupassant story.

Tells the tale of a man who becomes overwhelmingly preoccupied with finding the right lens for a microscope. All else in his life is tossed aside and neglected, for what he discovers under his precious diamond lens is something unworldly and barely believable.

The story tells of how the men of the village made Betsy Baker the postmistress, then began to regret the action until a strange ending occurs.

A boy and his father swap bodies, causing mayhem all round.

A young sentry falls asleep on guard duty in the Civil War and sees the "Horseman in the Sky"

Stranded when floods wash out a trestle, a group of friends are safe in a switchman's hut with two strangers. When the prison bell sounds in the distance a third stranger joins the group, one is known to be an escaped convict.

An ambitious copy boy plots the capture of a killer his editor wants a story on.

The new Duke must choose between losing either his beautiful young wife or a fortune.

A man suffers in prison for decades for a crime he didn't commit. Then the actual murderer is sentenced to the same prison in another trial leading to the two men meeting.

A sea captain is given a sealed trunk and sealed orders both to be opened at sea.

A retired electrician invents a gravity defying machine which causes a sensation with his family, the press, and more problematic the United States army.

Rick Tymperley takes a trip from Skid Row to the Stock Exchange and back in "Turning Point".

Three playing cards form the triangle that causes one death and the loss of a gambler's luck.

The man in the lighthouse supposedly is murdered on two different evenings as two different witnesses' watch. The third night another murder attempt is made and this is seen by a visitor as he travels to the lighthouse.

A former French underground agent finds that a friend she'd thought dead is still alive, but he refuses to recognize her.