is about the sleuthing of a private detective, hired by a jealous wife to trail her husband, a doctor often working late into the night. The husband is murdered, and shortly afterwards, the wife is killed too. The detective shuffles through a long list of suspects, then confronts the deceased doctor’s sexy former patient. Is she guilty?
A female and male customer enters a jewel merchant’s office and each recognizes the other as a jewel thief. The two wordlessly team up to steal a $30,000 diamond. The two would-be thieves feel frustrated because police anticipate their every move. Later, the two fall in love. Eventually, the female thief admits she is a detective hired by an insurance company to impede the male’s thievery. She pleads with her partner-lover to give up crime.
is set in a Missouri farming community beset by North-South tension in the days after the Civil War. A stranger comes to town, stays with a South-sympathizing family, helps out with farming tasks, and falls in love with the daughter. Pressed to reveal his wartime affiliation, he reveals fighting for the North. Eventually, he reveals his connection to the family’s oldest son, who went off to war and never returned.
follows a slum kid from paper boy to light-weight boxer with “lucky” right-handed punches. In a last-minute mismatch, the boxer unintentionally kills his opponent in the ring. Dubbed “Killer McCoy” by the media, he wanders aimlessly, returns to boxing with the help of a shady gambler, falls in love with the gambler’s daughter, contends with a drunken, selfish father, and uses his right-handed power punch to win three bouts in a row.
