Country girl Nell travels to the heartless city to find her drunken father and falls into the clutches of a mustache-twirling villain in this parody of early melodramas.

A western girl stands to inherit a fortune if she agrees to marry a refined eastern gentleman, but she and her brother have other ideas.

A woman tries to break into being a stage hand at Charlie's studio by disguising herself as a man.

Everett sees a want-ad for film actors in his morning paper and decides to apply. He turns out to be a natural in front of the camera, but his wife does not approve of the love scenes.

Farmer boy Johnny marries Capella, but a dancer is no fit mate for him in his mother's eyes. She secretly forces her to abandon Johnny so that he will come back to the farm.

Jack Parker battles a Mexican bandito while pining for Texas Ryan, the rancher's daughter.

When an innocent woman is kidnapped by a rival group of outlaws during a turf war he had a part in starting, bad-man Cliff Hudspeth reforms his ways to rescue her.

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend.

At his dying mother's behest, John must sacrifice himself to save his brother's future.

Raffles, a gentleman thief, pulls off daring robberies while narrowly avoiding capture.