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- In New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
- A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
- Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population.
- Frank and Lou are brothers, running the family's bakery, a fixture in their Bronx neighborhood since 1921. Lou loves it, but the rest of his life is in tatters: he lives alone, bets on the horses, and owes a loan shark. Frank, older, married, and always responsible, wants to get out of the bakery and pursue other dreams. Things come to a head on the day Lou's marker comes due and Frank announces big news. Can the business or their relationship survive?
- Anna Ward struggles to help her husband Jim, a laborer in a Pittsburgh steel mill, to improve his lot in life. When Jim's friend invents an improved rail-making device, Anna convinces her husband to invest his savings in the machine's promotion and marketing. This proves so successful that Jim is made a director of the steel company, but because of his strong stand on workingmen's rights, the company officials conspire to ruin him. Under the influence of a co-director, Jim resumes his old drinking habit and becomes involved in an affair with a beautiful woman, who induces him to sue Anna for divorce on a false charge of infidelity. Anna refuses to defend herself until the court threatens to take away her son, whereupon she claims that Jim is not the boy's father. Deeply ashamed, Jim confesses everything to the court and is sentenced to prison. After his release, he returns to Anna, just as their son departs to fight in World War I.
- When Henry Howland, the great philanthropist, feels his health failing, he makes his will and entrusts it to his nephew, Walter, to file away in his private safe. Impelled by curiosity, Walter opens the will and discovers that his uncle has cut him off with a mere pittance, leaving the major portion of his estate to charity. He cleverly forges a new clause to the will, and is in the act of substituting it for the original when surprised by his uncle. After a heated argument, Howland dies of heart failure and Walter, panic-stricken, carries him to his own room and notifies the coroner. Later, Walter accompanies Gladys Brooks, with whom he is in love, to the retreat of a Hindoo mystic, a crystal gazer, who bares Walter's life while in a mesmeric trance. Fearful of arrest, Walter escapes from the room and eludes the detectives put on his tracks by the district attorney, who is a rival suitor for the hand of Gladys. After a time he returns and makes a clean breast of the whole affair. The district attorney seeing that Gladys loves Walter, and that Walter is sincere in his desire to start life anew, calls off his detectives and allows the couple to catch the Montreal express.
- A womanizer's carefully constructed web of lies comes crashing down when his mistress threatens to tell his wife about his new girlfriend.
- The story opens after the death of Vivian's father, with the reading of his will, Vivian is made sole heiress, while her uncle is placed over her as guardian for a term of years. Should she marry, the estate goes to the husband. The uncle, Ralph, determines to marry his own son, Jack, to Vivian, and as the estate is on a secluded island, he is confident that matters will work out his way. We are then introduced to Teddy and Brian, who leave in a motor launch to look for what Brian calls "the land of romance." They arrive at Vivian's island and make camp. Vivian, meanwhile annoyed by the attentions of Jack, complains to her guardian, and declares her intention of returning to the mainland. She attempts it that night, but is injured in a trap set by the father and son. Brian and Teddy hear the girl's cry; they rush to her assistance, only to be met by father and son, who order them from the island as trespassers. As the girl lies unconscious on the bed, the guardian takes her picture to be used as a lantern slide. His purpose is to throw the picture by means of a lantern, into Vivian's room, showing her dead. It is his scheme to drive her insane or to suicide. Teddy, while roaming around the house investigating, is captured and made a prisoner in the cellar; his boat is overturned to give Brian the impression that he is drowned. Later a nurse comes to the island to care for Vivian; she soon suspects something wrong, and informs Brian whom she has met, of her fears. Vivian asks Brian to take her from the island. The plot discovered, the nurse finds herself also a captive with Teddy in the cellar. Vivian and Brian carry out their attempt to escape, but are foiled. It is Teddy's dog that rescues him from the cellar, and it is the dog which, while swimming to the mainland carrying a note for help, meets the boys in the rowing skiff. Following the race to the island, there is a terrific fight. But the guardian and his son are captured and made prisoners in the cellar themselves. Later, there is a double wedding, Brian and Vivian and the nurse and Teddy. Visiting the island in a launch, they send the dog off to the cellar with a package. The dog pulls the bolt and the guardian and his son stagger out; they open the package left by the dog. It is a wedding cake, and the two men are glad to get even a wedding cake to eat.
- The farmer catches a party of pretty girls picking flowers on his place. He is scolding them, when one unexpectedly trips him up. The girls then catch him, and throw him bodily over a high board fence.
- While Ned holds the affections of Alice, her parents favor Percy. To gain their consent Ned induces a fumigating concern to smoke up the house while Percy and the parents are present. Percy, observing the awful smoke, flees, leaving Alice to her fate. Ned, waiting outside, rushes in at the proper moment and saves her. Alice's father, grateful to Ned for saving his daughter, now favors his suit and when Percy calls again he is thrown out.
- John Hedden is a middle-aged man who is passionately fond of children. He spends a great deal of time at the home of a widow friend who is happily blessed with three beautiful children. He meets there Helen Knox, who is acting as the children's governess. Realizing that she could create the happy home life that he so craves, he asks her to marry him. She willingly consents, but after the marriage greatly disappoints him by turning from the beautiful home he has made for her to the allurements of society. In order to offset his loneliness he steals away, while his wife goes out to society affairs, to the companionship of the widow's children. Finally, one Sunday morning, again compelled to eat a lonely breakfast, he decides to take the children up to the zoo without his wife's knowledge. He leaves her a letter, saying that he was called away on an important engagement, and goes to the widow's house, where he prevails upon her to accompany him and the children. While at the zoo be is seen by a gossipy friend of his wife's. She goes at once to the wife and tells her what she saw. The wife, already mystified by her husband's letter, is quite ready to believe the friend's gossip. She goes at once to the widow's home and there finds that her husband has already returned with the children. She accuses the widow of trying to steal her husband, and the widow, in turn, tells her how she has disappointed her husband in his ideal of home life. In order to prove her assertion, she leads the wife to the nursery door, and there shows her the children with her husband. He is having the time of his life telling them stories. The wife realizes what a failure she has made of her married life. She begs her friend's pardon and steals quietly away to her own home. Later her husband finds her there in tears, which leads to a complete understanding and reconciliation.
- George and Mabel are in love. Mabel's father is opposed to George and his suit. George writes Mabel a letter, asking her to meet him at Darling's restaurant. Father gets hold of the letter, and decides to meet George himself, taking with him a large club. Mabel warns George. George disguises himself as a blonde lady and keeps the appointment. George flirts with father and they dine together. Father is very much smitten, and George steals father's hat. George then runs out on father, who does not know what to make of it until he arrives at home, only to find George and Mabel planning their wedding day. Father raises a row until George threatens to expose his wild actions and career in the restaurant, and father has no other course left open to him than the giving of the parental blessing.
- McGuirk joins a fake detective agency and starts out to detect a crime. Percy Gay loves Byrdie May, whose angry father says him "nay." McGuirk, finding Percy swearing vengeance, follows him, believing he is on a track of an awful criminal. Percy gives McGuirk an awful throw-down from his automobile. That night, when Percy brings a ladder with which to carry away the imprisoned Byrdie, McGuirk is on. He follows Percy up the ladder to Byrdie's room and is promptly knocked unconscious by Percy, who escapes with the girl. Papa May hears the rumpus, and revolver in hand captures McGuirk, whom he accuses of abduction of his daughter. Marching McGuirk through the streets at the point of a pistol, angry papa confronts Byrdie and Percy, who have just been married. They are forgiven and McGuirk gets his.
- A costly gem is stolen from a Hindoo idol and brought to America. Introducing numerous startling incidents, including an auto wreck and a leap for life.
- Harry calls on his sweetheart, and unsolicited Lillie proceeds to entertain him by singing and playing the piano. This is disconcerting to Harry and he persuades her to accompany him to the home of their friends, Mae and Joe. Joe and Lillie show a more than passing interest in each other, and Joe schemes to put one over by taking her to a masquerade. Harry learns of this and hurries to the hall with Mae on his arm. He recognizes Joe in the guise of a convict. A fight follows and Joe makes his way through the crowd and runs down the street with Harry at his heels. In the meantime a real convict has escaped and is being followed by the guards. A lively chase follows in which the real convict finds Harry overcome by exhaustion and changes clothing with him. Later, he knocks down a policeman and repeats the performance. Tradesmen, women and children, who are following, land in a heap before matters are finally straightened out and Harry and Joe are carried to a nearby doctor. Well bandaged they return to their loves, but are handed the cold shoulder so they proceed to drown their sorrows together in a way which assures many a laugh to the audience.
- Bill is a policeman. His sweetheart meets him every morning just as he starts on duty, and the morning kiss puts him in good humor for the rest of the day. By the roadside the cop finds a bathing suit. He goes in for a swim and is just beginning to enjoy the water when he sees a tramp putting on his uniform. He calls to him threatening to arrest him, but the tramp strolls away swinging the club. The cop comes out of the water and has to put on the tramp's clothing. A chase follows. The cop hails another "arm of the law," who assists him, and after a brief pursuit they "cop" the tramp.
- Eddie visits Mae. While she is entertaining him, Bert, another beau, enters. Both are enraged with jealousy and come to the conclusion that the only way to calm themselves is to fight a duel with pistols and whichever one lives through the combat will be the winner of Mae's hand. The fight starts and is continued over tables, behind chairs, and with bullets flying in all directions. A few go flying into Mary and John's room and Mary, becoming indignant and furious after her mirror is broken, wall paper torn and holes made in the walls and floor, goes in and revenges herself upon the two men, finally assisted by a few cops. A month later, Eddie and Bert, well bandaged, call at Mae's home at the same time. They are ushered into the parlor and Mae soon joins them, bringing with her a handsome stranger. Eddie and Bert all but collapse when he is introduced to them as Mae's husband.
- It is all arranged by the mother of "Sir Charles Kerplunk" that he shall marry "Emma." Emma proves not to his liking on first introduction, so Charlie runs out of the house and away from her as fast as he can. At the same time, in the great palace, the "Duke" is seen by one of the attendants dancing with one of the ladies-in-waiting. The attendant tells the Duchess, his wife, who rushes upon her fickle spouse, boxes the lady's ears and bandies the Duke rather roughly. In the meantime, Charles has been found and taken back to the house and Emma. He decides that he would rather die than marry her, so, taking a stout rope, he goes out into the orchard intent on committing suicide. He ties the rope around his neck, but is discovered by the persistent Emma before he has accomplished his purpose, and is taken back to the house and revived. Next day the Duchess decides to leave the Duke. She and her maid steal away to a boarding house which happens to be the identical one that Sir Charles and his valet have hit upon in their flight from Emma. She chooses a room next to the one in which Charles is hiding, and becomes so charmed by the music he is playing on the musical he has brought with him, that she sends for him. The Duchess and Sir Charles see much of each other and fall in love. At length the Duchess' maid goes back to the palace where the Duke is having a glorious time in his wife's absence, and discloses the Duchess' hiding place. The comedy ends with an extraordinary number of laughable situations and with the safe return of each of the runaways, the Duchess to her husband, the Duke, and Sir Charles to his mother and Emma.