Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
カリフォルニア州サンタローザ。その街で家族と共に平凡に暮らす長女チャーリーは、突然やって来た叔父に秘密の匂いを嗅ぎとる。やがて二人の探偵が現れ、チャーリーは叔父に未亡人殺しの疑いがかかっている事を知る。明るい日常生活の中でチャーリーひとりが、叔父が殺人犯かどうかの疑惑にさいなまれていく…。
Mrs. Errol
Leon Errol tries to thwart his son's romance.
Mrs. Dane
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
Society Woman
航空会社に勤務するバリーは、軍需工場への破壊工作の濡れ衣を着せられ、手錠のまま逃亡の身となるが…。
Mrs. Arthur Freeman
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Miss Dunbar
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Lady Denham, a Dowager
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.
Mrs. Sprague
第二次世界大戦直前のアムステルダムを舞台に、オランダの要人暗殺を目撃したために政治的陰謀に巻き込まれる新聞記者の暗殺を描く名作。ストーリーは二転三転、名シーンが詰まっている。
Kate Vollar
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
