Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Harvey Cheyne é uma criança rica e mimada, acostumada a fazer tudo do seu próprio jeito. Quando uma brincadeira dá errado a bordo de um transatlântico Harvey acaba caindo ao mar e quase se afoga. Felizmente, ele é pego por um barco que acabou de sair para a temporada de pesca. Ele tenta subornar a tripulação para voltar mais cedo e ganhar uma recompensa, mas nenhum deles acredita nele. Encalhado no barco ele deve adaptar-se ao jeito dos pescadores e aprender mais sobre o mundo real. Adaptação do romance de Rudyard Kipling.
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.