A villainous rival abducts Mabel and chains her to the railroad tracks while Barney Oldfield races to her rescue.

Lucy falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

Dakota Dan agrees to curb his murderous temper to win the new pastor’s daughter but then Ace Farrell comes between them.

Chariot racer Ben Hur competes against his enemy Messala and against Rome’s occupation of Jerusalem.

Bob thinks he is destined to be a detective. Not wanting to lose the boy, his father conspires to frighten Bob back home.

Gloria and Bobby’s secret marriage is threatened by a bigamous wedding performed by a jewel thief posing as a preacher.

Lord Kewes seeks to marry a wealthy woman but she refuses when she discovers why they were introduced.

A beachcomber takes desperate measures to get rid of his Filipina wife to marry an heiress.

Jimmy’s wife Jeanne wants a divorce. Instead, Jimmy stages a fake suicide, but he forgot to leave his will where it could be found.

Matty is on the point of proposing to Sally when flashy blonde-haired Carole swings onto the campus and threatens to lure him away.