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- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A young novice leaves the convent for a knight. Unlike the better-known 1959 film "The Miracle", this version is set in medieval times.
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- An elderly gentleman, a professor and savant, living in quiet retirement, is greatly mystified and annoyed by a nightly visitor, who flits through his study and rummages around his desk. In his growing embarrassment the professor appeals to the police, who make a thorough search of the professor's apartments, but fail to discover even the faintest clue to the solution of the mystery. Thereupon the professor appeals to the master detective, to the brilliant and profound Stuart Webb, who can fathom the motives of men and follow the devious paths of the criminal. At first, however, Webb is puzzled as much as the police were. After much thinking he hits upon a novel plan which he hopes will bring good results. He installs a motion picture camera in the professor's haunted chamber and by a most ingenious device arranges the machinery such a way that the slightest touch of the desk sets off a flashlight and puts the camera into action at the same time. The plan succeeds to this extent. The detective now has a picture of the strange intruder. The latter is revealed by the film as a man with a big beard. Rightly concluding that the man of mystery would want to change his appearance as quickly as possible after being caught by the camera and would therefore go to the first barber shop to effect the change, Webb and his assistant are ready. The mysterious intruder sits down in a chair and when he is lathered and Webb holds the razor poised above his head, Webb's assistant slips the handcuffs on him. Now, the veil of the mystery lifts rapidly. The midnight visitor, it turns out, was not after the professor's desk at all; he was the agent of a foreign government in search of important plans. These plans were in the possession of a famous military engineer, who lived on the floor above the professor. There were secret passages in the old house and in the confusion of the winding steps the thief had mistaken the professor's study for the room of the engineer. The discovery that the whole house was mined, so to speak, with parallel stairs and shafts is brought home to the spectator with unique and startling effect.
- The mystery surrounding the temple of Buddha which contains many priceless gems attracts the attention of two adventurers. They plan and eventually steal the holy pearl from the head of the idol. Next morning the theft is discovered by the Brahmins, and the high priest curses the thief, calling on Buddha to wreak vengeance on everyone into whose possession the jewel falls. The thieves hasten to Europe to sell their ill-gotten prize and offer it to Degory Priest, a well-known collector of rare gems, for $10,000. Priest invites one of the thieves, a man named Allen, to stay at his home over night and he will buy the pearl and pay for it next morning. The other man. Walker, decides to keep watch and wait in the grounds of the mansion. During the night, the evil influence of the pearl causes Allen to see strange visions. He has a paralytic stroke from which he dies. Priest, who had a motive for inviting Allen to stay the night, visits his room and finding him dead, takes the pearl. Three days later, Priest meets with a fatal accident while hunting. After his death the pearl is handed over to his son and heir, Charles Priest, who has gotten into financial difficulties and is in the power of a money lender named Lewis. Lewis brings pressure to bear on young Priest who, unable to raise the money and under the fatal influences of the pearl, commits suicide, before doing so, telling his wife to rid herself of the pearl which has brought so much misfortune on his family. She consequently sells it to Lewis. Violet Lewis seeing the beautiful gem in her father's possession, asks to be allowed to wear it for one day only at her coming of age reception. He consents, but as a precaution, has it insured for $100,000. At the reception three Hindoo performers give a show in which the famous William Tell shooting act forms one of the items. Instead of shooting the apple, the Hindoo shoots the pearl out of its setting without destroying it. This supposed accident causes a sensation and a scuffle takes place to find the missing pearl. Finally the manager of the insurance brokers, who is at the reception to guard the interests of his firm, finds the pearl, but on close examination discovers it to be a clever imitation of the original stone. And now the question arises, "Who Has the Genuine Pearl?"
- The first scenes take us to a temple beside the shores of a sacred river where virgins, clad in white, directed by solemn gray-bearded priests, go through the ritual of the worship of the lotus flower. While the sweet rites of worship are being observed in the temple, a troop of English soldiers, led by Sir Percy Grenville, their commander, approaches the temple. The English party is in pursuit of native hostiles, who have taken a trail leading to the temple. The worship is rudely interrupted by the coming of the English soldiers. Their commander, attracted by a glittering sacred jewel in the head of Buddha, ignores the protests of the priestess and wails of the priest, tears the precious stone from the sockets of the eyeball. Metta, the priestess, and Kassapa, a rich Brahmin, resolve, before the altar of Buddha to recover the diamond of their God at all costs. Sir Percy is recalled to England, and Metta and Kassapa embark on the same vessel. A silent but determined struggle for the possession of the diamond ensues. Sir Percy keeps the sacred jewel in spite of all, and landing in England, promises to give it to his bride on their wedding day. Metta and Kassapa, in various disguises, try to get possession of the diamond, but the precious stone is safely stowed away in the safe of Sir Percy's father-in-law. Metta has now fallen in love with the handsome English officer, and opposes the plan of Kassapa to kill him in order to obtain the diamond. Just as the goblet is taken up by the British officer, and he is about to touch his lips to the rim of the cup, Metta dashes it from his hands. She still however, is determined to recover the diamond, and when on a sailing trip with Sir Percy and his fiancée, the former falls overboard and cannot swim. Forgetful of her love and devotion to the cause of Buddha and at the risk of her life, she jumps overboard and brings Sir Percy safely to the shore. The last attempt is made to get possession of the sacred jewel. Metta and Kassapa, in the dead of night, steal into the room of Sir Percy, and are about to open the safe when Ethel, fiancée of Sir Percy, surprises them. The whole truth now comes out. Metta and Kassapa declare that they have come to recover their god's jewel, and point to the ill-luck that it has so far brought to Sir Percy. Ethel and her father decide to restore the jewel to the possession of the priestess and her companion. Metta, however, bears back with her to far off India, not only the sacred jewel, but a deathly wound in her heart. She cannot forget Sir Percy, and when she is once more within the hollow shades of the temple, she dances with a devotion and fervor which she has never displayed before, for her beating heart tells her that this is to be her last dance before the altar of her God. As she completes the dance her heart fails and she dies.
- A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.
- A famous surgeon who places the claims of suffering humanity above considerations of self, and goes blind.
- A tragedy about the invention of the videophone.
- Florian, a traveling minstrel, is journeying along the highway with his gypsy-like troupe of men and women, when they see moving toward them a strange and terrified procession. They are leading a witch to the stake to be burned. Everything is made ready for the execution, the fagots await the touch of the match and the strong armed executioner seizes the girl and makes her fast to the stake. An old law is proclaimed before the execution is begun. According to this law, if any freeman comes forward from among the spectators and marries the "witch" she will be purged from her sin, but the law goes on to say that if she repays her benefactor husband with ingratitude, then the old judgment of death shall be revived and she shall forthwith be led to her death. Florian is touched with love and pity and marries the "witch." Her husband instructs her in the art of playing the lute, and one day as they play before the castle of one of the Dukes of the realm, the Duke falls in love with her. The "witch" resists the advances of the Duke. In the meantime the jealousy and rage of Fascha, who regarded Florian as her sweetheart, causes the arrest of Florian on the false charge of arson. Florian is brought before the court and condemned to life imprisonment, a punishment which the Duke alone has the power to remit. The Duke, who has been a party to this false accusation in order to gain possession of the "witch," promises to pardon Florian if his wife will kiss him. Florian, who sees his wife kissing the Duke, believes that she has been faithless to him. Florian appeals to the law and demands that sentence of death be carried out against his supposedly unfaithful wife. At this moment, the Duke hears the voice of Conscience and touched by the fidelity of the "witch," he proves her innocence and then pardons Florian, who is happily restored to his wife.
- The self-exiled scion of a noble house was called to the home of his ancestors and returns to the wilds of South America disgusted with the thin veneer of civilization
- The story itself tells of an old nobleman who had four sons, three of whom were worthless wastrels, while the fourth, who managed his father's estate, was a loyal and honest son. The father, indulgent, and himself fond of life, favors the three worthless sons, with whom he is very generous with his money. He does not know their true character, but is warned by a friend, a prince, as to the profligate lives led by these sons. He at first makes light of the warning, but reading in the paper that the sons are gamblers, and resort with bad women, his doubts are confirmed. He decides to put his sons to the test by feigning death. This ruse reveals their true character. The three worthless sons almost openly rejoice at their father's death, and burn their father's will. The youngest son, although his father had treated him harshly, refusing his consent to a marriage with a poor man's daughter, shows sincere and deep sorrow at his father's death. The result is that the scale falls from the father's eyes. He casts off the three renegades and reinstates his youngest son in his favor.
- Depicts the media story of Count Arthur Hamilton who died in the British castle of Clyde under mysterious circumstances.