A man loses his memory after a suicide attempt and falls for his nurse. He recovers physically but does not regain his memory. He takes a new name and begins work at a mill.
Frederick Osborn is too busy to tend to his family duties and his wife Frances feels neglected. But Frederick's attention is caught when his wife takes up with a pair of companions to whom she is devoted, but whom he sees as more than a little shady.
A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history and her troubled relationship with her son, Ralph, and his family.
Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his misanthropic uncle to plead for money.
Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and finds Regina in Bryant's arms, he orders him to leave. Bryant obliges, but he doesn't go away -- when the Taylors' daughter, Vivian, has a birthday, Bryant gives her a Shetland pony.
A winning lottery ticket and the theft of half of it leads to both joy and a lot of trouble for former coworkers Abe and Kitty as well as Abe’s daughter Minnie and her true love David Moss.
Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.
Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.
Betty, the only daughter of Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, is secretly loved by Tom Saunders, a farm hand. Tom's scapegrace brother, Dick, returns from the city and is befriended by Tom. Dick later wins Betty's love. While Jenkins is blasting out a tree stump with dynamite, Betty and Dick are passing close by unnoticed, and the explosion destroys Betty's sight.
In the poor Italian quarter of New York lives Luigi, an Italian peasant and inventor, who is so absorbed in his work that he greatly neglects his wife, Nedda. She is younger than he and fond of pleasure. Not understanding his neglect, she strongly resents it.
Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for America. In New York he meets Louis Kaplan, an old friend, who owns a fruit store. Louis' sister, Marie, is pretty and flirtatious, and is much impressed by Hugo. He soon falls under the influence of her wiles and buys part interest in Louis' store.
A new theatrical star is born when Ivy Liversedge, daughter of Silas, an unsuccessful playwright, scores a big success in Paul Hesseltine's new play, "The Fatal Silence." Paul falls in love with Ivy. but her father exhibits an intense dislike for him at their very first meeting.
When Pierre Larosse, a trapper, calls on his sweetheart, Jeanne Coudert, to present her with the skin of a silver fox, he finds a stranger. Jacques Javillier, at the Coudert cabin. Jealousy is aroused between the two men by the girl's evident preference for the stranger. Pere Coudert, her father, is called away and announces that one of the men must accompany him.
Edward Thursfield, chief engineer of the bridge building firm of Henry Killick and Company, is building the largest concrete bridge in the world. Employed in the New York office is a young man named Arnold Faringay. Arnold sees an opportunity of using money from the payroll for a big deal.
John Glayde is a stone-hearted man intent on wealth to elevate his family, losing his wife to another man in the process.
Bob Hammond, a promising young boxer, is taken east by his manager to meet some of the better men in his class. Bob promises his sweetheart, Maggie Dowling, he will return and marry her. In the past he becomes champion in his class, and is known as "The Battler."
A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
Peter is smitten with Winifred, a model, whom he met on board the steamer returning from Europe, but is discouraged by his sister, Ena, who is more ambitious for him. Peter is the son of Peter Rolls, the wealthy New Yorker. Ena tells Winifred that Peter is engaged to Eileen, sister of Lord Ravglan and that he is just trifling with her.