Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker Charles Cressler. At a performance of Faust, Curtis meets and falls in love with Laura Dearborn, the sweetheart of artist Sheldon Corthell. Curtis pursues Laura and finally convinces her to marry him, but soon after their wedding, he neglects her for his business. In her loneliness, Laura renews her relationship with Sheldon and the lovers plan to elope. When Curtis is ruined on the market, however, Laura rejects her lover and comforts her husband.

Lloyd Kent returns to his hometown after twenty years a wealthy man. All the while he was gone, he h...

Mimi, an unsophisticated American girl attending an exclusive Swiss boarding school, unexpectedly in...

When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find...
Gypsy Willie Buckland recalls to his friend why he and his wife return each year to that same spot t...

The romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe act...

Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity w...

In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.

The daily lives and struggles of a group of workers in a small German town. They face poverty, unemp...

Allayne Norman's husband Bruce is a gambler and drunkard who kills her artist cousin in an argument....

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and so...
Reverend Darwin Kirby falls in love with a woman described as fond of "all the gaieties of life". Sh...
Driven from home because of his father’s temper, 20-year-old Frank Bradbury struggles to control his...

Lili, an unfortunate foster child, has a series of near misses and falls in love.

Young peasant Paul's life is one of poverty and hardship from an early age. His lifelong struggle as...

Phyllis Latimer goes to Fiji to rejoin her husband of three years and finds him in a state of drunke...
Between the wealth of the aristocrat and the fortune of the successful tradesman there is a great so...