Edward Alexander

부유한 광산주 닉 반 앨스틴의 아들 버티는 세상물정 모르는 응석받이이다. 앨스틴의 사위 마크는 능력은 없으면서 야심만 많은 브로커이다. 어느 날 부정이 탄로나게 된 마크는 그것을 버티의 잘못으로 뒤집어씌움과 동시에 광산을 헐값에 팔아넘기려는 음모를 꾸민다. 이제 버티는 자신과 집안을 지켜내기 위한 싸움을 시작한다.

Free and easy Garrett Cope loves Katherine Gresham, but his rival, Henry Miller, who is really Heinrich Mueller, a World War I German spy, gets rid of Garrett by having him arrested for the murder of Pembroke Van Tuyl. While Garrett is in prison, Katherine marries Mueller, but Sidney Dundas, knowing that the German actually committed the crime, finally confesses, and Garrett is freed. Meanwhile, Mueller takes Katherine to a remote island called No Man's Land, which he uses as a base for blowing up Allied ships.

Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.

Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.

Margot is the pawn in a game set up by her father, "Old Bill" Prewitt, and her husband, Tom Sloan. They use her to fleece gamblers until a gun fight results in serious injuries for both Tom and Bill. Bill thinks Tom is dead and takes Margot across country. He finally collapses from exhaustion and they are found by a trapper.

An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.