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- In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
- Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts to hang around with a "fast" crowd, and one night at a party a young man picks her for his "conquest". She fends him off, but when he is later found dead she is charged with his murder. Her boyfriend from back home hears about her troubles and comes to the city to clear her name and find the real killer.
- Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a drinker, a gambler, and pretty much worthless as a human being. For some reason, successful dancer Marilyn Merrill (Bow) sticks by him. In spite of this, he gambles with her boss, and when he loses, he writes bad checks. In order to avoid jail, Armstrong gets involved in diamond smuggling.
- A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
- Theatrical adaptation: a conceited actor suspects his actress wife of infidelity so disguises himself as a guardsman and courts her to test her reaction.
- An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
- A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
- Midnight Molly is trapped by police as she attempts to steal a painting. She escapes the detectives, but, while still on the lam, she is hit by a car, taken to a hospital, and erroneously identified as Mrs. John Warren, the wife of a prominent mayoralty candidate. Since the real Mrs. Warren, who is the exact image of Molly, has just run off with George Calvin, Warren is glad to identify Molly as his wife and take her home with him. Molly recovers and continues to impersonate Warren's wife, protecting him from the political consequences of a divorce scandal. Calvin learns of the deception, returns to the city, and attempts to blackmail Warren. He is not successful, but Detective Daley, who also suspects Molly's alias, requests her fingerprints. Forcing the real Mrs. Warren to return for fingerprinting, Molly is cleared of suspicion, and Daley closes the case. Mrs. Warren and Calvin are killed in an automobile accident, and Molly and Warren are free to marry.
- A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
- A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
- In what is described as "pictorial sidelights of the world's greatest city", London is viewed from the "new and fascinating angle" of its Regent's Canal.
- A girl aids her sister's romance with a man who really prefers her.
- A KC's wife is forced to admit in court that the child killed by her drunken ex-chauffeur was hers.
- Kitty Shayne, a cut-up who is the life of every party she attends, discovers that the men in her life invariably pass her up in order to marry timid and retiring girls. Kitty then goes to live with an aunt in a distant town, assuming there the role of a modest young woman in order to find herself a husband. She soon meets and falls in love with Russell Baldwin, a proper young man who hates jazz babies. When she and Russell become engaged, Mrs. Baldwin gives a party to celebrate the occasion, but the affair is a dull one until Kitty risks her romance to save her future mother-in-law from the heartbreak of social embarrassment; Kitty once again becomes the life of the party, and Mrs. Baldwin's gathering becomes an instant success. Russell is disgusted with Kitty until she explains that she became gay only to please his mother. Russell and Kitty are reconciled.
- A crooked financier installs an inventor's television sets in banks to discover safe combinations.
- In Spain gipsies save a dancer from jail when her admirer kills the count who ruined her career.
- The marriage between Donald and Flora Brookes is under pressure. Donald has eyes for a new girl, innocent at first, but more and more affectionate. But the new girl is unstable and dramatic.
- Bob, a young sailor, lands in San Francisco, California, and unwittingly becomes involved in drug smuggling activities when he is sent to deliver opium to Wong Chang, a tong leader. A rival gang waylays Bob, steals the package, and leaves him stranded in the country. Bob finds work in a store and falls in love with Ruth Ketchell, forgetting Wong Chang's daughter, Mui Far, who loves him. Wong Chang finds Bob and returns him to the ship's captain, who beats the sailor for allegedly stealing the opium. The tong kidnaps Ruth and threatens to kill Bob, but Mui Far comes to their rescue. Realizing the futility of her love, Mui Far briefly considers suicide, but decides instead to accept the man Wong Chang has chosen as her husband.
- Although many old houses in London are now torn down, it's still possible for visitors to go and have a look at some buildings connected to Dickens and his novels. The Old Curiosity Shop is still open at 14 Portsmouth Street. When looking at it, you can image Grandfather and Little Nell meeting in the doorway, and even Dickens himself walking out of the shop. Off Marylebone High Street the house where Dickens wrote many of his greatest novels is still standing, and so is the house in 48 Daughty Street, Bloomsbury, where he wrote others. Under the dark arches of the Adelphi you can imagine David Copperfield passing through. Famous places from the Pickwick Papers like the Cliffords Inn, the Spaniards Inn and the Golden Cross Hotel can still be visited. Outside the hotel a stagecoach is waiting. Suddenly several of Dickens' best known characters turn up and enter the bus: Grandfather, Little Nell, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, David Copperfield, Pickwick and Quilp. As long as London exists, the spirit of Dickens will never die.
- To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting himself adrift in a small boat on a rough river. The boat is caught in willows, however, and Brian meets Judy, a little maidservant who introduces him to her mistress, Auntie Sue, a schoolteacher. Under Auntie Sue's benign influence, Brian reforms and writes a book. Falling in love with Betty Jo, Brian incurs the enmity of Judy, who tells her father of Brian's unsavory past. Judy's father starts out for the bank, but Auntie Sue gets there first and persuades the bank president (a former pupil of hers) not to prosecute Brian. Brian's wife attempts to visit him and is drowned. Brian finds happiness with Betty Jo.