In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's...
Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, be...
Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by a...
Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married th...
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, ...
Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), a...
Broad-minded rector Stephen Carey is ousted from his church by his vestrymen and befriends Claudia B...
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up ...
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French...
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl w...
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producer...
A man breaks into a flat, startling the occupant. They argue about the new girlfriend of the 'burgla...
An optimistic girl survives city life as a shoe shine till she ends up in children's court. Just as ...
The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasan...
A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his ...
During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margar...
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophistica...