Becky Sharp tries to scheme and manipulate her way to the top in this early and ambitiously scoped three-reel retelling of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.

In the Crimean War, a British lieutenant is cast into danger during the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade.

Robert feigns illness to see a nurse he has fallen in love with.

A rich man is robbed of his clothes by an escaped convict and is mistaken for a fisherman by the convict’s sister.

A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them.

Lillian’s parents and her wealthy young beau test to see just how well she could endure poverty.

Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman, vamps his way into the German High Command, and seduces the Kaiser himself into revealing Germany’s war plans.