When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
미네소타에서 밀 농장을 하는 렘은 시카고로 밀을 팔러 간다. 기차에서 렘은 우연히 케이트를 만나고 둘은 사랑에 빠진다. 렘은 케이트와 함께 고향으로 돌아오는데, 어머니와 어린 여동생은 케이트를 반기지만 아버지는 의심과 경계의 시선을 거두지 않는다.
독일 표현주의를 대표하는 거장 프리드리히 빌헬름 무르나우가 할리우드에서 만든 마지막 작품. 분주한 도시와 드넓은 밀밭의 모습이 대조되며 햇살이 비치는 밀밭, 역동적인 수확기의 모습은 무르나우의 서정적인 풍경을 더욱 풍요롭게 만든다.
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
