Ferdie, tired of his wife's love for the foxtrot, fakes an injury to get out of dancing.

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

A collection of fragmentary sequences from The Messenger, in which slapstick antics follow Hank as he lackadaisically goes about his messenger job.

A pictorial report of the methods used by human traffickers to procure women for prostitution.

Peggy covers for Frank, who has stolen $500 from his father to pay his gambling debts.

A fisherman discovers a young woman on what should be an uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle do not have long to live.

Tom has a little too much to drink and accidentally shoots his friend Ned in a bar fight.

At his dying mother's behest, John must sacrifice himself to save his brother's future.

Explorers Osa and Martin Johnson search the cannibal isles for Nagapate, chief of the Big Numbers tribe.

While out prospecting, Jim rescues a man dying of thirst and takes him back to his cabin, but Jim soon discovers that the stranger is out to steal his gold and his sweetheart.