The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
Phroso é um bem-sucedido mágico de espetáculos casado com Anna, mulher que também é objeto de desejo de outro homem, o comerciante de marfim Crane. Quando Anne deixa Phroso para ficar com Crane, começam as tragédias. Numa briga com Crane, Phroso fica paralítico. Alguns meses depois, Anna já não está com o amante e morre deixando uma criança. Com sua vida destruída, Phroso jura vingança contra o homem que tomou sua esposa e lhe deixou paralítico, e parte para África. Dezoito anos depois, ele se tornou o líder de uma tribo africana, parte de seu plano para liquidar Crane. No meio de tanto ódio, a criança, agora uma mulher, se tornou uma prostituta alcoólatra em Zanzibar. Phroso segue com sua vingança, mas a situação foge de seu controle e as tragédias atingem a todos.
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
Eileen O'Hara lives as a member of a cult in a remote retreat in the Adirondacks with her father, an embittered man since his wife's infidelity years earlier. Because his wife was untrue, O'Hara is determined that his daughter, Eileen, shall never marry. Peyster Sproul was the man who had the affair Mrs. O'Hara's infidelity, and when he shows up as president of the Sagamore Club and attempts to buy O'Hara's land, the two men come to blows.
