O bancário August tem uma reputação de bom marido e pai. Mas logo sua vida dá uma reviravolta quando ele parte para Chigago a trabalho, levando papéis valiosos e dinheiro. Chegando lá conhece uma jovem que, após embebedá-lo, chama um homem para bater nele. Mas August revida e acaba matando-o. Temendo um escândalo, August desaparece e é dado como morto.
Produção da era silenciosa que adapta o clássico de Victor Hugo. Chaney está no papel de Quasimodo, o tocador de sino da Catedral de Notre Dame, desafortunadamente deformado. Ele se apaixona por Esmeralda, uma jovem e bela dançarina cigana, logo depois que ela lhe deu água quando ele estava apanhando em praça pública. as o gesto fora apenas por comiseração. Ainda assim, Esmeralda mais tarde é acusada de trair e esfaquear seu amado. Por isso ela é torturada e sentenciada à morte. Quasimodo é quem vai resgata-la nas escadarias de Notre Dame.
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.
