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- Mark Ridgeway, the owner of a large ranch in Nevada, intends to leave his ranch property, which includes a dam, to his foreman, Tom Taylor, but when he dies without signing the will, the ranch goes to his niece and nephew, Marion and Reggie Ridgeway. These two easterners arrive at the ranch, and Tom falls in love with Marion. Joe Deerfoot, an evil, college-educated half-breed Indian, offers Reggie $10,000 for the ranch, aware that the water rights on the property are worth a fortune. The stupid, effeminate Reggie agrees to the deal and signs the contract. Joe kidnaps Marion in order to force her signature on the deed, but Tom, having overheard the plans, rides his horse Silver King to Joe's lair in the mountains. There, Joe stabs Tom and pushes him over a cliff into a lake, but Silver King tramples the Indian to death, dives from the precipice into the lake, and saves Tom. Marion and Tom put Reggie on a train back east and face the future together as ranchers.
- The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won. Determined to regain his honor, Billy goes into training, with his valet's help. Billy arranges to finance a boxing match with Burke, but because Billy's father objects, the fight must take place on a raft near Coney Island. Billy finally wins the fight, thereby impressing his fiancée and winning the respect of his father.
- The Thompson-Thorpe automobile was once a great car but the failure of the owners to be able to agree on needed changes led to the break-up of the company, and Thompson and Thorpe has each started their own car-manufacturing company. Not knowing his true identity, Earle Thorpe Jr. has been hired by Henry Thompson to drive his new car in an upcoming race. Thompson has two crooked mechanic/engineers who plan to make their own car, using Thompson's plans, and win the big race themselves. Thompson's daughter, Ette, and Earle become close and resolve to settle the feud and re-unite Thompson and Thorpe Sr. They take the best features of both cars and combine them into one super car. But, Stanley Steele, the Thompson mechanic steals the car.
- Supposedly a deaf-mute, Jack Taylor arrives in Valley City at the same time that Postmaster Dad Warner is threatened with the loss of his job because of the many recent mail thefts. Taylor suspects Warner's clerk, Law Sleeman, and is consequently captured by a gang led by local politician Dick Blackwell. He escapes, stops another robbery, rescues Lillian Warner, captures the gang, reveals himself to be a Secret Service agent, and wins Lillian's hand.
- Jim Harkness has made every sacrifice to give his younger brother, Dick, an education and welcomes him home from college. Dick, however, did not go to college but became a member of the notorious Black Hat Gang, which has been ravaging the countryside. Jim prevents a train robbery by the gang and captures one of the masked bandits, who turns out to be Dick. He returns the goods his brother stole, Dick repents, and Jim marries May Lacy, the sheriff's "school m'arm" daughter.
- Mike O'Malley, a young mechanic who has invented a special fork for motorcycles, has neither the money or influence to market the device. When he learns that a large cash prize will be awarded to the winner of a cross-country motorcycle race, Mike decides to enter. Mike wins the contest and the affection of his sweetheart.
- Billy Griffin, who is in love with Catherine Curtis, the daughter of fight promoter James Curtis, must fight her father in order to win her hand in marriage. Despite his ignorance of boxing, Billy puts on the gloves, and the elder Curtis knocks him senseless. When Billy awakens, he has lost his memory. Billy is later sentenced to 90 days in jail, where his cellmate, a former boxer, sees he has a natural punch and teaches him the fistic art. After his release, Billy becomes a boxer and is soon successful enough to be matched with the light heavyweight champion, Young Dillon. Suddenly, Billy regains his memory and remembers nothing of his days as a fighter. He enters the ring with the champ, and for several rounds he is badly beaten. However, Catherine taunts Billy, calling him "yellow" until he becomes greatly angered. He handily wins the fight, but refuses to speak to Catherine. After learning she was only using his anger to save him, Billy chases after her taxi cab and, after leaping on the roof of the speeding vehicle, wins her for his bride.
- While Scotty McTavish is driving around his his big automobile, he sees a very pretty girl enter his father's railroad yards and falls in love at first sight. He borrows some blue overalls, gets by the gate-man and applies to the yard-foreman, "Slugger" Martin for a job. Scotty tells Martin his main objective is to meet the girl. The girl is Patsy Thorne, daughter of the yardmaster, and also the apple of Martin's eye. Martin also is more than a little bit crooked and he makes things very complicated before Scotty and Patsy can get together.
- Suspected of having killed the father of the girl he loves, Trooper Moran of the Northwest Mounted Police is given a week to find the culprit or else do away with himself. Aware of a quarrel between the man and an Indian trader, Moran trails and finds the Indian and places him under arrest. The Indian declares himself to be innocent but admits to having been present when the man was shot. The evidence finally points to a French trapper, who is forced to confess. Moran clears himself and marries the girl.
- Learning his father's railroad business from the ground up, layabout Leonard Hathaway undertakes to win a large ore-hauling contract by making his the company with the fastest train. No trick is overlooked by the villain, Thomas Webber, but the hero thwarts his opponents and proves himself worthy.
- Writer Jerry Logan, who specializes in potboiler stories about sailors and seafaring, has actually never been on board a ship in his life. He decides one day to give it a try. He meets two sailors who tell him a completely made-up story about buried treasure, in order to get him to charter the boat of a financially struggling young girl they know. He hires a crew of tough sailors and sets sail to find the "treasure", but winds up having a lot more "adventure" than he was looking for.
- Hart Lawson is the pampered scion of an old patent medicine--manufacturing family, whose members are poor advertising for the rejuvenating effects of their own products. Hart's uncles continually insist that he, too, has heart disease, he resolutely insists that he does not, and he eventually proves himself to be in good health.
- Racing driver Jack Harlowe falls in love with Helen Drake, the daughter of his father's rival automobile manufacturer. Having promised his father to drive in the big race, Howes must refuse the girl's request that he drive for her father, but when he learns that another man (who has his eye on the girl) plans to drive for her father and throw the race, Howes receives parental permission to win the race for the rival.
- Bud Parsons fails in an attempt to steal a wallet from a well-dressed man, but the man takes him to a club and offers him a chance to make some easy money. He must pretend to be the son of Mrs. Hale, that disappeared when a very young child. Bud has a qualm or two but accepts as he sees this as a chance to earn the money to entertain Blanche Amory, a worthless show-girl, who charges a lot of money when being entertained. He and his pal, "Red," go to the Hale mansion and begin the deception. Mrs. Hale's daughter, Ellen, immediately attracts his attention, even though it is not considered proper for a brother to start hitting on his sister, even if the brother is an impostor. Lewis, the man who hired Bud to pose as William Hale, claims the $20,000 reward for the return of the son, but Bud and "Red' rob him after he cashes the reward check at the bank. Meanwhile, from out of nowhere, the real William Hale shows up but Lewis has him tossed in jail. Things eventually work out to everybody's satisfaction, with Lewis being the notable exception.
- William Ignatius Newton, a charmingly worthless young man, inherits a car, a dime, and a valet from his millionaire father, then sets out to learn about life. However, the elder Newton is still alive and has commissioned female detective Hazel Dawn to monitor William's activities, in the hope that the experience will make a man of him. When William decides to incorporate himself, criminals Tombstone Reilly and Obituary Blake, who know the truth about Mr. Newton, attempt to become majority stockholders. However, they encounter fierce competition from an aging spinster, who hopes to land a young husband. Upon learning of his father's deceit, William embarks on a series of misadventures as he and Hazel attempt to outwit their adversaries. William emerges victorious after a fight on the roof of a fifteen-story building.
- When a builder receives a contract for the construction of a large dam, his business rival sets out to blacken his good name by substituting inferior cement while the dam is being built. Bob Downes, a bright young man who hates his soft job, learns of the plot to ruin the dam and lends his considerable energy to defeating the conspirators, thereby saving the power project and winning the love of the builder's beautiful daughter.
- War veteran Jim (Reed Howes) is an airplane designer. His best buddy Dick (James Bradbury) steals his latest design. Dick wants to impress beautiful Winnie (Ethel Shannon) and sell Jim's plans to her father, a rich manufacturer, but Jim turns up at the right moment to claim his invention, and he wins Winnie.
- The first of a series of twelve-proposed features starring ex-prizefighter Billy Sullivan. He plays a washed-up, drifting fighter, reduced to the job of a cook in a small-town diner. But when a fighter fails to show up, Billy is called on to substitute and take a beating. Billy has other plans.
- The town is depending on Jimmy O'Day to be the victor in a prizefight so that money can bring back jobs. His girlfriend Alice stands by him as he deals with the pressure of training and people's expectations.
- After graduating from college, timid young Billy Tanner is told by his guardians that his late father had worked in a circus, and he must now enter the family trade. Sometime later, Billy accidentally knocks out a boxing champion, who challenges him to a match. Billy does not do well in the bout until the circus owner, Old Man Barnabas Tingling, instructs him on how to land a punch. After winning the fight, Billy saves the Tingling Circus and wins the love of the owner's daughter.
- The fathers of Isabel Channing and Howard Billings were good friends until they had a falling-out over a horse and swore to be enemies forever. Years later, Howard is seen returning from college and Isabel, who has lost her,is working hard to keep the old homestead (and stables) together. Thornhill is trying his best to cheat her out of everything. Howard takes a hand.
- When he goes to war, Theodore Pendergast is a snob. When he returns from the trenches of France, he is a democrat whose best friend is Butch McGuire, an ex-prizefighter and regular guy. Ted (as he is now called) takes Butch home with him to meet his father, and the old gentleman immediately has Ted committed to a sanitarium. Ted escapes and goes to live with Butch, whose sister, Molly, runs a beanery in a rough section of town. Ted is accepted by all of Butch's friends except Kid Lowry, a prizefighter who finally goads Ted into a grudge match. Before the fight takes place, however, the elder Pendergast has Ted kidnapped and placed in a padded cell. Ted again escapes and arrives in time for his match with Lowry. Ted is losing the fight when Molly appears and urges him on. The police raid the place, and Ted escapes with Lowry, whom he trounces after they have eluded the cops. Ted proposes to Molly, insuring a marriage that pleases the elder Pendergast, who has belatedly come to appreciate the loyalty that Molly and Butch have shown his son.
- An American adventurer goes into the interior of Africa on a quest for the great starfire diamond. After much action and adventure, he obtains the diamond and rescues the girl he loves from a band of hostile natives.
- Pat O'Farrell, a rich young man, takes a job as a truck-driver for his uncle's milk company, and falls in love with Cliare Knight, daughter of the Knight Car Company. Pat is financing "Dad" Perkins, who is working on a super-charger which Pat hopes to put on the Knight race-cars. Perkins tells Pat he has loaned the invention to lawyer Stanton Wade. Lawyer Wade has intention of keeping the device for his own benefit. Pat has no intentions of allowing that to happen.
- After boxer Billy Barton gives blood to save the life of a seriously injured opponent, he becomes so weak that he can no longer fight. This prompts him to return to his former job as a jockey. He helps a horse-ranch owner to transport a thoroughbred to a big race in Kentucky. Then, when circumstances lead to their arrest, Billy is let out of jail in time to enter and win a boxing match for the purse, which he then uses to finance his entry in the race. Billy rides the horse to victory, thus saving the rancher and winning the hand of the rancher's daughter.
- One day, while out driving in his sporty automobile, wealthy but reckless young Tommy Oliver eludes the police, who are trying to give him a speeding ticket. His flight is observed by Dixie Denman, who assumes that the police are chasing him because he is a crook. When she takes him to her gang's hideout, they invite him to join them. Tommy soon falls in love with Dixie, who is also loved by the leader of the gang, "Satin Fingers" Burke. Dixie's brother, "Breezy," sides with Tommy, but Tommy realizes that he alone must save Dixie from a life of crime. Because Tommy has no record, and thus no fingerprints on file with the police, the gang enlists his to help them rob a bank. Tommy goes through with the robbery plot but is able to recover and return the money, thus saving the day and the girl he loves.
- On a business trip, Ted Clayton falls in love with the daughter of the President of Costa Blanca. Her chaperone keeps him from making much progress with her, and in the process he incurs the wrath of the President's military.
- While making a series of boxing exhibitions, "Lightning" Bradley, the lightweight champion, is matched with Billy Morris in a small western town. Bradley knocks Billy out, and Billy, looking for a revenge rematch, follows the champ from town to town, taunting him and "getting his goat." Billy follows Bradley to Hollywood, where the champ is making a picture. Billy gets a chance to box Bradley before the cameras in what is expected to be a set-up, and knocks him out. Bradley's manager tries to stop the story from getting into the newspapers, but Billy outraces his thugs and breaks the news. He also wins Virginia Avery, the star of the film.
- After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
- A night club devotee is abducted by orders of his wealthy father. The Abductors betray themselves and the boy discovers the plot to rob his father and kidnap him. A cigarette girl is a member of the gang but, through her love for the boy, switches her loyalty, and he is enabled to prevent an attempted robbery.