Having just reached adulthood, Clyde Griffiths has always lamented his lot in life, he the only son of poor missionaries. He has gotten a peripheral view of society life, to which he aspires, in his work as a bellhop at an upscale hotel. If being truthful to himself, he would admit that he lacks moral strength, he often taking the easiest but perhaps not the most ethical path to protect himself. Forced to move from place to place out of circumstance, he ends up in Lycurgus, New York working at the Samuel Griffiths Collar and Shirt factory, Samuel Griffiths his paternal uncle. Not knowing his uncle or his family, Clyde only wants a chance to get ahead, not expecting anything else from his wealthy relations. After an apprenticeship, Clyde ends up as the foreman in the stamping department. Despite a company rule forbidding foremen to fraternize with staff, especially those working in the same department, Clyde begins an affair, a clandestine one out of necessity, with Roberta Alden, who works in the stamping department under him. Their love is an obsessive one, made all the more powerful due to its clandestine nature. That changes for Clyde when he meets, through his wealthy relations, society maiden Sondra Finchley, the two who immediately fall in love with each other. The extra draw of Sondra over Bert is Sondra's standing in society. By this time, Bert informs him that she is pregnant with his child, she pressuring him to do right by her in getting married. Wanting to be with Sondra instead, Clyde contemplates murdering Bert by drowning her in a lake, he knowing that she doesn't know how to swim. Although Clyde is ultimately unable to commit this act of murder and will do right in marrying Bert, he, due to that lack of moral strength, nonetheless is caught in a resulting tragic situation for all involved.

Behind the doors of a foreign-government's embassy in Washington D. C. a group of royal loyalists are attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new republic. They are led by an unknown leader called 'The Eagle."

The Harvester is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by James Leo Meehan and starring Orville Caldwell, Natalie Kingston and Will Walling. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel of the same name by Gene Stratton-Porter, which was later remade as a sound film in 1936.

The Fighting Cheat is a 1926 American silent film western. Directed by Richard Thorpe, the film stars Hal Taliaferro, Jean Arthur, and Ted Rackerby. It was released on February 11, 1926.

Some Pun'kins is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Jerome Storm and starring Charles Ray, Duane Thompson and George Fawcett. It is also known by the alternative title of The Farmer's Boy.

The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.

A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.

Joan Doubleday is a shy spinster, who has been engaged to Monty Wade for 12 years, is secretly adored by Peter Flagg. Her young niece, Jerry, arrives and sets out to capture Monty. On the wedding day, Jerry announces that the grooms have exchanged places and that Peter will marry Joan. A quarrel prevents preparations for the wedding, but Jerry finally convinces Joan that she was meant for Peter.

Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.

Chuck McCarthy is a stunt double for movie actor Marmaduke X. Caruthers, and as such suffers all the indignities and injuries that the public thinks are being overcome by Caruthers. Chuck is in love with Marmaduke's leading lady , but even there it seems that Chuck must watch as Marmaduke takes the prize rightfully should be Chuck's.

Marie Chaumontel, a spy for the Germans during World War I, vamps her way through the French high command, accumulating state secrets as she discards lovers. Captain Henry Ravignac commits ...

"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.

Jim Carson, a young Tennessee mountaineer, and Millie James, a mountain girl, are worried over the condition of Jim's mother. Millie nurses her tenderly. Jim's worry is increased by a note which he has received from John Calhoun, a miserly landowner, stating that, unless he pays the overdue rent on the shack which they occupy, that Jim will be evicted. Realizing that terrible shock would be dangerous to his mother, Jim goes out and attempts to borrow the money. He meets with no success. Meanwhile, Calhoun, accompanied by two deputies and his overseer, Ned Simms, goes the rounds of the cabins to collect his rent. He arrives at Jim's cabin. Jim being absent upon his mission, Millie states that they have not the rent, whereupon Calhoun orders them evicted and the men at his command place the dying woman out on the roadside on a mattress, also throwing their scant furniture into the roadway. The shock of the eviction kills the mother, Calhoun goes on his way. Jim arrives at the cabin and learns of the eviction and the death of his mother. Shortly afterwards he leaves to wreak his vengeance upon Calhoun. The mountaineers carry the dead woman into the cabin and restore the furniture to its original position. Jim Carson, by a short cut, waylays Calhoun, shoots at him and kills his horse. In a desperate struggle between the two men, Calhoun's revolver is accidentally discharged and Calhoun is killed. The body is discovered and Ned Simms and a posse set out upon the trail of Carson. He is captured, placed on a horse under a tree with a rope about his neck and left there, Simms knowing that at sunset the horse will return to the stable, leaving Carson to hang. Simms returns to the cabin of Carson and finds Millie there and taunts her with Jim's fate. The mountaineer whose horse Jim borrowed his already arrived on the scene. He hears the argument in the shack, goes to the window and covers Simms with his own rifle. Millie leaves on horseback and rescues Jim. She liberates him and at her request Jim rides towards the North, where Millie promises to join him after burying his mother.

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. They are eventually reunited and marry. But life in New York is hard and ...

Sam Higgins, a grocery clerk, sends his invalid wife, her mother and baby to Arizona for his wife's health. The cottage rented by them is owned by John Hecker, a railroad superintendent. They cannot pay the rent. Hecker tells them they must pay or get out. They write to Sam, asking him to come on and get a job there and take care of them. The husband is unable to go for want of money. Big Jim Dougherty, king of the hobos, drifts into the store, tells Sam how he can reach Arizona by freight and gives him signs so that the hobos on the road will help him. Sam leaves about a month later, but owing to an order issued by the superintendent whereby all hobos are ordered thrown from all trains, Sam is thrown off by a brakeman on the desert. Dougherty and the other tramps find him and bury him, placing a cross to mark the grave. Hecker is called out to fix a broken block signal and leaves for the scene on a handcar with a couple of men. The bum and Dougherty catch Hecker, dress him in Dougherty's clothes and send him to the railroad yards to try and get a ride under the new order. Hecker undertakes to do this and receives a dose of his own medicine; he is thrown off the train and later is found clinging to the cross erected by Dougherty. Dougherty finds a wad of money in Hecker's clothes. He goes to the home of the wife and throws the bills to the baby who is playing on the floor, with a note stating that the money will do them more good than the owner, and leaves. He later finds the skeleton of the superintendent clinging to the cross, a note pinned on it stating that if he had done to others as he would have them do to him he would not have died alone in the desert.

Bill Eagan, a young bandit, holds up the stage coach and robs the passengers of all their valuables. A reward of $500 is offered for Bill, dead or alive. Shortly after the hold-up, Bill calls at the Muscatine Post Office for a letter which is advertised for him. Bill covers the postmaster with his pistol and the letter is delivered to him. Bill then starts back to the hills and is pursued by the sheriff and his posse. He is captured and is about to be lynched when he asks as a last request that the sheriff read to him the letter he has just received from the Muscatine Post Office. The sheriff complies with Bill's request. The letter, which is from Bill's mother, says she is coming to see him. Just then the stage drives in and Bill's mother is one of the passengers. She sees Bill and hurries to him with outstretched arms. The sheriff pities her, as she is a sweet-faced woman. He tells the mother that Bill has just been made sheriff of the town, and pins his own badge on Bill. Bill's mother thanks the sheriff and the villagers. She is then shown to the best room in the hotel, with Bill in the room next her. After the sheriff and villagers leave Bill and his mother, the mother takes off her wig and make-up and proves to be Bill's pal, a young cowgirl. That night she and Bill escape from the hotel and rob the bank and the post office. They get away. The next morning the sheriff discovers how he has been tricked by Bill.

Realizing that his father, John Collins, who is a big department store owner, will object to his marrying Mary Eyton, a shop girl, Roger Collins secretly marries her. He receives a note from Mary telling him that in order to save her good name, the marriage must be made known. Roger confides his secret to his mother who visits Mary. Perceiving that the girl is good and worthy of her son, the mother advises Roger to stick to her, but the father, who has other plans for his son, and after he has failed to buy Mary's silence, turns Roger out. Roger, untrained to any kind of labor, loses position after position and drinks to drown his sorrow, leaving Mary to earn a few pennies by sewing. Several years later on Christmas eve, Mrs. Collins is grieving for her lost son. She receives a letter from the detective agency which she has employed to locate her son, telling her that they are unable to find a trace of him. Mrs. Collins takes the matter in her own hands and, hoping to learn something of Roger, searches the streets of the East Side. She finds a poor little barefoot girl standing before a toy shop window. The child tells her in reply to Mrs. Collins' question that her mother is unable to buy her shoes because her daddy takes all the money for drink. With the spirit of Christmas in her heart, Mrs. Collins buys the child toys and takes her to her poverty-stricken home, only to find that the child is her own grandchild. Roger returns to the house, looks through the window, sees his baby at her prayers and hears her ask God to send her a new daddy who does not drink. He resolves to be a better man, and a reconciliation takes place on Christmas morning in Roger's humble home.

While Shorty is out looking for cattle thieves his horse stumbles and falls, and Shorty is thrown and injured. He is captured by a bunch of Mexican rebel soldiers and put in jail. He is seen by Anita, a beautiful Spanish girl, whom he sends to notify Bud Simms, the ranch owner. Anita has taken a great fancy to Shorty and breaks the rules by taking food to him. In the meantime an important letter has come to the ranch for Shorty. The boys open it and find that Shorty has been left a fortune on condition that he marry a certain woman within two weeks. The boys conceive the plan of marrying Shorty to the lady, who is on her way to the ranch, by proxy. Nell Holden, the lady in question, who is rather a pretty girl, fearing that she may not like the looks of Shorty, disguises herself as an ugly old maid so that Shorty will refuse to marry her. The proxy is Tom Crowne, a very handsome young cowboy, who falls in love with Nell, when he sees her with the disguise removed. Nell plans with the sheriff, who is also the magistrate, to insert Tom Crowne's name in the marriage license instead of Shorty's so that Tom becomes her legal husband instead of only by proxy. Anita notifies Simms of Shorty's whereabouts and the cowboys rescue him. Shorty is very much surprised to find on his return that he has been married by proxy, but is no more surprised than Tom Crowne when he finds that instead of being Nell's husband by proxy, he is really her legal husband.

Shorty starts for Arizona with the hope of finding work so that he may be able to send for his mother, who is suffering with a cough. He is unable to pay his fare on a freight train, so he sneaks into the caboose and hides in the wood box. A lot of tramps, who are stealing a ride, when told by the brakeman to move on, attack him and throw him out of the moving box car and then attempt to man the train. Shorty helps the train crew and when the tramps are brought before the magistrate at the next town. Shorty is given work by Tom Simms, a ranch owner, while the ringleader of the tramps is given a long sentence by Ned Dorne, justice of the peace. Shorty is soon made foreman. In some unknown way the barns in which Simms has his crops stored take fire, burning up everything. Ned Dorne, who is a rival for Ethel Somners, the new school teacher, holds a note against Simms and sees a good chance to ruin him. Ned Dorne demands immediate payment and they quarrel. The tramp responsible for the attack on the train serves his time and is released and ordered out of town. He sees Dorne riding alone and decides that this is his chance to get even. He attacks him, kills him and is wounded in the struggle. Simms is accused of the crime, but Shorty writes a note to the sheriff, telling him that he did it. Shorty finds the tramp dying, obtains a confession from him, just as the sheriff and posse arrive to arrest him. Simms is exonerated and Shorty's mother arrives just as he returns to the ranch, a free man.

Baron Nuisance accompanied by his valet, Bud Duncan, arrive at the hotel, where they are given the best suite in the place. The baron, preferring the air rather than stopping in a close room, soon decides to go out for his afternoon walk, leaving Bud in charge of the suite. Bud, on the other hand, does love to be quiet, so naturally becomes riled when the nice looking maid calls with more linen prior to her leaving for the afternoon. During the afternoon the baron meets what he thinks is a society girl, but later proves to be the chambermaid. When time comes for the parting, he insists on taking his friend home, but she declines his request and the only consolation he can get is her name and address, which he writes on his cuff. The baron arrives home very tired from the afternoon's excitement; his valet is awaiting him. He is put to bed to await his evening engagement, but while he sleeps his valet sends his laundry away, including the shirt with the girl's address on the cuff. When the baron finds the address and the shirt gone, he and his valet start in a hurried chase for the shirt. They first come to a laundry wagon, which they put to shame. Finding nothing but soiled linen they go to a near-by Chinese laundry and cannot make the Chinaman understand their wants, so they proceed to hunt on their own accord. During the excitement the Chinamen are given a rough deal. They call in the police force, who meet with many accidents while the baron and Bud are wrecking the laundry. Finally the police force get on the job, but just at the same time the baron and Fred have run out of ammunition, so they resort to some starch buckets which the police receive in the face. In the battle the baron is hit in the eye with his own shirt, which he quickly notices. He and Bud soon desert the place for the address on the cuff. The cops give chase. The boys think they can get free by crawling up under a bridge spanning the river and beat the cops to the other side: but the cops find a short way over and decide to meet them half way. They do and there comes the downfall. The boys hide behind the posts and as the cops pass they push them out. After all the cops have fallen Bud and the baron are looking on with amusement, when they lose their balance and join the others, where they are taken captives.

All during the night a storm raged furiously, but day dawned beautifully. Tom, a young fisherman, discovers on the beach of the little island evidences of a wreck, and then the limp, unconscious form of a sweet young woman, bound to a piece of the wreckage. Tom lifts her gently and takes her to the humble cottage where he and his mother live alone. With their care Ruth soon again regains health, but the terrible ordeal through which she has gone results in the complete loss of memory of the past. However, Tom loves her, and she, too, has the same passion for him. They marry, and the little household becomes a haven of happiness, until a launch party of sight-seekers stops at the little fishing island for luncheon. One of the strangers approaches Ruth and is promptly knocked down by Tom for it, but not until Ruth has recognized and remembered, and in her horror she staggers into the shack. The sight of the strange face was a shock sufficient to give back her memory of the past, memory of her marriage to a man who was not Tom, a marriage she had no memory of, and of a husband living whom she had forgotten. While she struggles with her secret, her misery and her memory, he comes, her husband, the stranger, declaring his identity and demanding her, his wife. Ruth comes from her room and reveals to him the too unhappy truth of the stranger's claims. The launch is waiting. Ruth is forced to go away from a happiness she had never before known, he gives Tom back the wedding ring, which he kisses and places on his own finger. Then he watches the fast-disappearing motorboat which takes away from him all that he held dear in life.

About 1722, Spain, in her command of Texas (named from a confederation of Indians, who called themselves Tejas), established the Franciscan mission of San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo). Around this mission was built the pueblo (village) and presidio (barracks), which formed the nucleus of the present city of San Antonio. In 1824 Texas withdrew from Mexico and formed a separate republic, and the Mexican general Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, was sent to force her back into allegiance. At San Antonio in 1836 Col William B. Travis was in command of the fort. With him was Col. William Bowie, David Crockett, Lieut. Dickenson and a small force. He received word that Santa Anna, at the head of a Mexican army of several thousand, was advancing to take the city. Travis dispatched a message to Gen. Sam Houston for aid, sending Lieut. Dickenson and taking his force of 140 men and women of the city, among whom was Dickenson's wife, Lucy; he retired to the Alamo. On February 23, Santa Anna sent a message to surrender, and upon the brave refusal of Travis, he attacked the place. Travis held the Alamo until March 6, 1836, his little force constantly diminishing. On that day, when all seemed lost, Travis drew a line with his sword down the center of the room and asked all who would die with him to cross to his side. All crossed save one, Rose, who announced his determination to try to escape. He succeeded in leaving the building but was never heard from again. A breach was made in the wall by the cannon of Santa Anna, and the Mexicans entered to find all the men dead except Travis and four companions. These were immediately slaughtered on the spot, and Lucy Dickenson, with two other women and three children, were all to leave the Alamo alive.