Walter Rodgers

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.

Business is bad for doctors and undertakers, but it's Thanksgiving Day and luck might change.

몇 대째 가문 대대로 내려오는 칸토르(유대교의 예배에서 노래를 부르는 선창자) 자리를 물려받게 되어 있는 유태인 소년 재키 라비노비츠(아역, 로버트(바비) 고든 분)는 재즈 가수를 꿈꾸며 아버지의 반대를 뿌리치고 집을 뛰쳐나간다. 재키는 13세 시절부터 업소에서 춤을 추고 노래를 부르며 재즈가수의 꿈을 키워나간다. 재키는 이름도 대중이 알기 쉬운 "잭 로빈"으로 개명하고 뉴욕에서 서서히 이름을 알려 브로드웨이의 커다란 공연에서 주연을 하게 될 기회를 잡게 된다. 하지만 첫 공연 전날 아버지가 위독하다는 소식을 듣게 되고, 가수로서 장래를 포기하더라도 아버지를 위해 노래하겠다고 생각하고 아버지 대신 유대교 속죄일 예배에서 노래를 부르며 아버지의 임종을 지킨다. 그 날 재키의 노래는 많은 사람들을 감동시키고, 그는 첫 공연에 빠져서 노래를 부르지 못했음에도 불구하고 브로드웨이의 인기 가수로 성공하게 된다.

At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.

Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.

Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.

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Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.

Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right and never falters in his steps to see that justice is given where it is deserved and crime punished on the same basis. Originally shot as a serial to be called "Whispering Smith", distributor Mutual Films decided to release it as two separate films - this film, which was released first, and Medicine Bend (1916).