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- Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Lloyd is a detective in a private firm of crime hounds. Business is very slack until the firm gets a peculiar sort of case. At the house of old Bixby, a millionaire, mysterious messages have been received from a criminal signing himself "Scarface." These predict the disappearance of a valuable diamond necklace, worn by Betty, his daughter. The note names midnight as the hour the necklace will vanish. Bixby communicates with the detective agency, and Lloyd and the manager come out to the house to protect the valuables and capture the crook. They station the occupants of the house at points of vantage and wait for something to happen. They are warned that whoever the flashlight falls on shall die. They do not have to wait long, for doors begin to open and close, and mysterious noises are heard. Lloyd is scared stiff but tries to catch the crook, although the fateful light falls on him. Scarface adopts the disguise of a huge gorilla and terrorizes the entire household. He glides from room to room, through walls, trapdoors and secret exits, completely mystifying the watching detectives or frightening them out of their wits. The chase leads to the cellar. Lloyd is left there alone while boxes and barrels move around the gloomy place. Finally he thinks he has captured the crook-but it is only his partner. The gas light in the cellar is blown out and the gas escapes. Lloyd asks for a match to light the gas and when the match is struck the house blows up, the explosion landing the two detectives and the crook on the branch of a tree. Lloyd slips the handcuffs on the crook just before the bough breaks.
- A three-some is waiting at the first tee for another player in order to complete their four-some when who comes into sight but our hero. He is carrying a golf bag and one club, but he eagerly accept their invitation to join the game. Lloyd tees up and take a swing at the ball with a strange looking club. It opens into an umbrella and carries him off the tee. His newly-found friends furnish him with another club and he scoops out a divot as large as a door mat. The next swing is a complete miss and one of his friend hands him a huge club. Lloyd's shot hits Dr. Frank, the keeper of a private sanitarium-a polite word for insane asylum. On the second tee, Lloyd again smacks the ball down the fairway and again it hits the doctor. All through the game he hits the doctor until this individual is mad enough to kill him. At the finish of the game Lloyd's gentlemen friends are met by a chauffeur who tell them that their car b waiting. They ask Lloyd to visit them at their home. Lloyd gets into the car and is driven to the sanitarium-;- He does not know that his new friends are a bunch of nuts that the squirrels have overlooked. In the sanitarium, Lloyd is surprised at the behavior of some of the people he finds there until he discovers that they are all lunatics. A beautiful girl begs him to help her escape and makes her plea very forcible by kicking Lloyd every time his back is turned. Doctor Frank is in charge. The doctor orders Lloyd into a straitjacket but a mouse runs into it and Lloyd tears the jacket to pieces. Then he meets a man with a wonderful invention-a self propelled airship which works ok for him, but which lands Lloyd in a heap outside the walls of the asylum.
- Louis Rousseau believes that the technically perfect music of his violin student, Tom Richards, lacks a soul because Tom has not suffered. Therefore, he convinces Rosalie Anjou, whom Tom saved from apaches and now loves, that she must dance at the notorious Moulin Rouge to earn the money Tom needs for his lessons. While keeping Tom ignorant of her activities, Rosalie becomes a great success and is selected Queen of the Moulin Rouge. Rousseau takes Tom to the coronation and, as he hoped, Tom denounces Rosalie and pours his pain and rage into his music. Rousseau confesses his scheme and Tom rushes to the banks of the Seine just in time to save Rosalie from a watery grave.
- When a newlywed goes out to get a present for his wife on their first anniversary, he is shanghaied by two friends and unwillingly made to masquerade as a wild man from the cannibal islands.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- The janitress of a girls' school tries to keep her husband in line and away from the young beauties.
- "Poodles" is the hard working assistant to the village blacksmith and everything he does goes wrong. As the blacksmith shop is filled with hot irons, heavy hammers and hard anvils, every time "Poodles" makes an error, somebody is due to get hurt. And it is usually Glen, the husky blacksmith, who is on the receiving end. Lucille, daughter of the village's rich man, is in love with "Poodles." She has a tough time trying to convince father and mother that "Poodles" is all right, for one of "Poodles'" mistakes result in father getting under a falling bale of hay. And when "Poodles" tries to help mother on her horse and throws her over it, he also drops in her estimation. The blacksmith is also a prize fighter and has issued a challenge to a finish fight with Slaughter-House Slattery. Slattery arrives in town and hunts up the blacksmith. When Glen sees Slattery his feet get so cold that his grandmother suffers from chilblains. Glen refuses to fight Slattery, pleading that he is sick. Lucille conceives the bright idea of having "Poodles" substitute for the battling blacksmith. "Poodles" refuses, but when Lucille's father tells him that he has bet all of his money against Slattery, "Poodles" agrees to battle his tough opponent. "Poodles" knows nothing about fighting but he is bright enough to wear a suit of armor into the ring and it almost wrecks Slattery's hands before the fighter discovers the deception. Then "Poodles" is in for a tough evening and it gets tougher as the battle goes along. But "Poodles" wins the fight through strategy and by knocking Slattery through the roof. Lucille and "Poodles" are very happy for Dad has saved his money. Dad gives his consent to the match.
- A star-struck fan of a film star botches his chance to meet her with a wardrobe malfunction. But, did Lester give up so easily? He sneaks onto the movie studio to try and make amends--which does not go exactly as planned.
- Dorothy's father, an inventor, has just perfected a new type of airplane and is anxious to have Stanley, a captain of aviation, inspect and test it. Stanley is Dorothy's sweetheart, and Glen, also an aviator, is his rival. Dorothy, her father, Glen and Stanley start for the aviation field, with the chauffeur driving. On the way they get into all kinds of trouble with the car, finally being forced to abandon it and to proceed on foot. Dorothy and her father catch a motor-bus to the field after many ludicrous efforts. At the field, the plane is inspected and Stanley is to drive it. Before he can take his place in it, Glen slips into the cockpit and starts the ship. While Dorothy is christening the plane, it takes off. She is caught in some of the rope and the plane soars aloft with the girl dangling from the wing. Stanley and her father see Dorothy's predicament and they commandeer another plane and start in pursuit. Frank, the chauffeur, is caught in another rope and he is also carried aloft. Dorothy manages to climb up the rope and then she recognizes Glen in the plane. Glen is trying to kidnap her and attempts to force his attentions on her. He chases Dorothy out on one of the wings of the ship, but Dorothy pulls the release string of his parachute and Glen is dragged off the plane. Meanwhile, the plane with her father, Stanley and Frank, is circling overhead. Frank drops to Dorothy's plane and they try to get to the other ship. Finally, both of them jump, but Dorothy goes through the floor of the other plane and falls earthward while Frank lands astride the fuselage. Stanley jumps over after her and catches her, and they both float safely to earth in his parachute.
- When Lige, a simple country lad, hears about the bill money movie actors make in Hollywood, there is nothing that can hold him back from a life on the screen so he cranks up the old family flivver and sets out for the land of movie opportunities. Before he has gone very far one of the tires goes flat and he pulls up to a service station to get some free air, but through a mistake he hooks up with a pipe line from tanks filled with helium gas. The tires on his car assume balloon-like proportions and the old flivver takes a notion to ride among the clouds. Lige has a tough time until he discovers the cause of the flivver's antics and then he pries off the tires and comes back to earth. Arriving in Hollywood he hunts up a studio but finds that it is easier to get into the mint than into a modern movie factory. The gateman is so tough that he even keeps his shadow outside and Lige is kicked out so often he feels like a football. Just as he is about to give up, he trades places with an actor and enters the studio where he is promptly beaten up as part of a big mob scene. Lige wanders among the stages and when he gets mixed up with Lloyd Hamilton there are many funny things happen to him. He finally is hired as a property boy and is given a can of powder to distribute on a movie battlefield, but he leaves a trail through the studio and when the powder is touched off it blows up everything in its path. To escape from the angry studio people. Lige takes refuge in an airplane which is to be shot down by anti-aircraft guns. When he gets high enough the guns start and the plane is soon riddled. Lige retains his hold on the wings and soars over his old home into which he drops just as his father is praying for his safe return.
- Anne's father arrives at the bank too late to deposit $5,000 in cash which he has just received. He is being followed by Billy, a pickpocket, and is nervous about the money. When he arrives home he hides it in a sofa pillow, but the pickpocket sees where he puts it and determines to get the money. Anne is preparing gifts for a charity bazaar and unwittingly gives the collectors the pillow in which the money is hidden. The maid discovers that the missing pillow contains a huge sum and tells her sweetie, the iceman. He also sets out to get the money. Father then learns of his loss and starts for the bazaar. The iceman and the pickpocket also race for the place and there is a fight to buy the pillows. All four buy pillows, each thinking he has the right one, only to discover that the money is in none of them. Finally Anne learns that the pillow has been sold to her Jimmie, who has given it to his aunt. The four of them dash to the aunt's house where they find that the pillow has been sent to the cleaners and then they stage a sprint for the cleaning establishment. Every pillow in the place is torn to pieces, With the feathers flying everywhere. Father falls into a starch tank and the feathers settle on him until he looks like a huge chicken. But he recovers the money and is chased out of the place, taking refuge on an ostrich farm where he is rescued by Anne from the birds who are picking him to pieces. Then Anne decides to take the money and spend it on her honeymoon.
- Lige Conley appears in a dual role as a fortune-hunting foreign prince and as a Customs Inspector whom he bribes to take his place to elude conspirators who threaten his life.
- Bobby gets a note from the hotel management that if he doesn't pay his hotel bill he will have to go to jail. He tries to make his getaway down the fire escape with his trunk and bags but is caught by the manager and the house detective who force him to work out his bill working as a bellboy. While he is on duty the manager orders him to take a pitcher of ice-water to his sweetheart, Sally's, room. He does so, but disguises himself so that she will not recognize him. As he leaves her room he picks up a paper and starts to read it. There are big headlines about a famous scientist who has just arrived in town with a new invention, laughing gas, to be used in future wars. The victims laugh themselves helpless. The scientist has arrived at the hotel and engaged rooms. He has with him two men, agents of a foreign government, As Bobby passes the room he sees smoke coming out of the door. He immediately thinks the hotel is afire and starts a general alarm. The manager, detective, and several of the hotel employees rush to the scene and Bobby starts chopping down the door. As he does so, the gas comes rushing out and the management and some of the guests are overcome and all start laughing. Bobby is also a victim and staggers to the window and climbs to the ledge. Looking down ten stories to the street below he thinks it is a huge joke and becomes hysterical. The house detective is after him but Bobby escapes and disguises himself as a woman only to be discovered. He pulls off his disguise and makes a dive for the hotel desk. In the mail box is a letter for him with a check for $5,000. The manager comes up furiously and Bobby hands him the check, asking him to cash it, but upon examination it is found to be made out to Mrs. Bobby. There is also a note from his uncle stating he had made it out to his future wife that Bobby will marry and settle down. Immediately Bobby thinks of Sally and rush to her room, followed by the manager and detective. After much difficulty the couple are married.
- "Big Boy" and his brother, Jackie, are very hungry. There is nothing to eat in the house. Their mother, a wash-woman, is very poor and has no money to buy food or to pay the rent. Jack and "Big Boy" go out to play. They manage to get some coal for the stove and put it in the kitchen. Then they go to the grocery store where Jack works, delivering bundles, to pay a long due grocery bill. "Big Boy" meets Bonnie at the grocery store and starts a flirtation with her. Bonnie is a little rich girl but she finds the attentions of the poor boy quite acceptable. "Big Boy" makes funny faces and cuts up generally. But he nearly wrecks the store in his efforts. Then to make had enough worse, "Big Boy" climbs into the meat display window after his dog and gets thoroughly spanked by the grocer for his efforts. Jack is told to watch a baby in a buggy. The baby crawls out of the carriage to play with "Big Boy" while Jack ties the buggy to the pet dog. A cat comes along and the dog chases it. The grocery keeper and the mother of the child miss the buggy and start a frantic search for it. They enlist the aid of all the police as the search goes on. The dog pulls the buggy all over town, finally landing in a lake. While the frantic mother and groceryman scream for help, "Big Boy" and the baby are looking for the mother. The mother offers fifty dollars reward to anyone who will save her baby. Consequently, when "Big Boy" appears with the child, she gives him the money. "Big Boy" pays the groceryman and the landlord what his mother owes them and he and Jack go out and purchase the makings for a big feast with the remainder of the money.
- "Ham", an effeminate man-child who skips around chasing butterflies with a net, is forced to go on a camping trip to "make a man out of him".
- An American doughboy gets separated from his company, and starts back from the fighting sector to the little French town where his sweetie lives. He takes a company of German prisoners on his way back and marches into the town only to find that the Germans have taken it over.
- Lige is a sporting goods salesman in a retail store and is compelled to demonstrate the different devices in the store, which he does to very, poor advantage as an irate boss looks on and threatens repeatedly to fire him. Eventually Lige shows the ladies how to "pin the tail on the donkey." He is blind-folded and walks through an open window to land on a safe being hoisted to an upper floor. A negro, in an effort to rescue him, also winds up on the safe in midair. After a lot of horse-play they are rescued.
- At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
- His duties as the bellhop, clerk, office boy, messenger and porter at the local hotel keep Johnny busy, but he still finds time to romance Lucille, the daughter of the proprietor. Lucille also finds time to become fascinated with George, a traveling salesman, while Anita, a vamping vamp from New York City, works her wiles on Johnny.
- With the aide of a fake spiritualist, Walter's future mother-in-law is trying to contact her deceased first husband. The fake spiritualist is just interested in robbing the safe.
- The hero, Lige, accompanied by his Black valet, land on a desert island and are captured by cannibals who prepare to put them in a stew. A flood of water released to put out a fire in one of the straw huts sweeps them away. With the aid of an alligator, mistaken for a spar, they land on a shore and are received as guests of an oriental potentate in his palace; however, the desire of the ruler for the girl and the opposition of the hero causes the latter with his companion to be thrown in a room where a lion is let loose, and then follows a merry chase and general mix-up which covers the whole palace ending in the hero conquering the lion.
- Lloyd is just a private in the big army of the unemployed. But he is trying. He will try anything once, and if he isn't thrown out, he'll try it again. He gets a job as an electrician's helper. Now our hero knows just about as much about electricity as the ancient Egyptians knew about the Charleston. But, as said before, he is willing to learn. He is taken out on his first job after an apprenticeship in the store. Luckily nothing more serious happened in the store than the breaking of a gross of bulbs and turning on the "juice" in an electric gridiron just when the boss had his hand on it. But those are little things. At the house where Estelle lives and where he is trying to make a big hit, he makes his first serious blunder. He connects a line carrying high voltage -22,000 of them-into the house circuit and then things begin to happen. First, the electric sweeper creates such a vacuum that things disappear right in front of him. Then the radio swells up and bursts. But when the piano begins to play and all the strings and keys jump out, that is the last straw. The boss knows something is wrong and orders Lloyd to the cellar to inspect the meter. Lloyd tinkers with the meter until he short-circuits it and then there is a big explosion which leaves nothing of the house standing except the doorway. Lloyd then knows he has made a slight error somewhere, so after courteously bidding the owner a pleasant good-day, he bows his way out of the door and is on his way, once more a private in the army of jobless.
- Lucy Knowles, a rich young girl, has just fallen heir to a Chinese prison ship and she hires a couple of lawyers to look after her interests. The prison ship is a valuable piece of property as it is a money-maker-a concession at a local amusement park. Charlie Bong, a half -breed Chinese, realizes its value and tries to induce Lucy to sell it to him. She refuses and starts with her lawyers to see the ship. On the way the lawyers take a cab but run out of gas on a hill. The car chases them down one hill and up another, finally cooping them up on the rear bumpers and depositing them, along with a gentleman of color they have picked up on the way, on the gang-plank of the ship. At the entrance of the ship they are greeted by the sight of several of the instruments of torture u d on the old ship and the colored gent gets the first shock. While they are looking over the ship a trap door opens, depositing the visitors into the under-deck dungeons filled with more torture instruments. George and Phil, the lawyers get separated from each other and find themselves in various parts of the ship. An old Chinese caretaker, seeing the strangers tries to entrap them in the various torture machines while the visitors seek to escape.
- Johnny is one of nature's noblemen. He is as pure as the driven snow and sings in the choir. Although he's more than sixteen, he's never been kissed. But he is in love. Kathryn is his beloved. She thinks the only thing he lacks to be an angel is wings. The path of true love is due to have some bumps in it, for there is a deep and dastardly plot abrewing. Wallace is plotting to get an inheritance that is coming to Kathryn and can only get it by marrying her. He plans to spoil Johnny's romance and marry Kathryn himself. Anita, a high-powered vamp, is pressed into the scheme. She waits for Johnny outside the church and finally traps him in her car and rushes him to her apartment where Johnny escapes just before he blushes himself into a fever. The wedding day arrives. The guests are assembled and all is ready. Suddenly Anita, dressed in rags, rushes into the room and commands the ceremony to halt. She then tells a harrowing tale of young love and betrayal by Johnny, painting him as the wolf in sheep's clothing. She tells how the monster carried her to his room and how she barely escaped without losing her dignity. She twists the facts until poor Johnny looks like the greatest rogue unhung. Anita sees that Wallace is paying too much attention to Kathryn and she double-crosses the villain. Then Johnny gets mad. He flares up like a two-bit skyrocket and cleans out Wallace in fine style:- But in the free-for-all fight, both he and his bride are decorated with black eyes for the wedding. Anita explains that her story was a pure and simple fabrication made up by Wallace, who had promised riches and his love if she helped him in his plot.