In Scotland, a young man, Lochinvar insists on marrying Ellen, the woman he loves in spite of the fact that she is betrothed to another.

A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.

A Mandarin marries an English girl and tries to poison her lover.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

In India, a princess disguises herself as a commoner to escape an arranged marriage.

Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).

In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband.

A colonel's daughter marries a farmer in name only, but returns to him when her lover threatens suicide.

A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.

An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.

A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.

Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking.

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)