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After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.

Two wealthy, independent young people meet in Venice and fall in love, but their affair takes a tragic turn as the young woman becomes hooked on heroin.

In the spring of 1942, the New Zealand government presents the U.S. a 70-year-old wooden twin-masted schooner. The US military decides to use the ship to place spies ashore behind Japanese lines.

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.

Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.

A bachelor employee at the United Nations building takes care of an abandoned baby.

A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

A housewife poses as her sister, a notorious dancer, in order to fool her husband and teach him a lesson.

After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband.

A chorus girl hopes to rise to stardom and thus accepts the advances of a wealthy man. But she becomes fearful of her reputation and safety. In an attempt to escape the rake's attentions, she hides out with a disparate group of men who room in a house called "The Barn." There she learns that there is more to life than that found on the stage.

When Mary Blake applies for the position of personal secretary to misogynist James Stanhope, she is judged too attractive to accomplish the job. Mary returns home, makes herself unattractive and is promptly hired. Stanhope is assisting the government in the arrest of Bolshevists, and one night three revolutionaries enter the house, bind and gag Stanhope and put a time bomb under his chair. Discarding her unattractive disguise, Mary vamps the three into submission, clouts each on the head with a brass statue and saves her boss's life. Mary's resourcefulness forces Stanhope to give up his disdain for pretty women, and he proposes to his attractive secretary.

The Women's Political League in a Midwestern city selects Josephine Gerson as its candidate for mayor because of her stylishness and good looks. Her fiancé, political leader Jim Bradley, backs his friend, Freddy Bleeker, as the opposition candidate. When Josephine overhears Freddy promising political appointments, she breaks her engagement and delivers a notable speech, winning the men of the town to her side. However, the women vote against her and Freddie wins by a narrow margin. Jim disassociates himself from his cronies, and the new appointments are all filled by women. Now an advocate for honest politics, Jim is reunited with Josephine, who accepts her "defeat" with grace.

In seventeenth-century England, Barbara Winslow helps her rebellious brother, Rupert, to escape the King's forces. Barbara is captured while disguised as Rupert, but Captain Prothero becomes enamored with her and sets her free. Later, when Barbara and the captain are imprisoned, they discover a secret passage that enables them and their fellow captives to escape. Barbara then secures a pardon for herself and the captain by revealing a plot against the king. Prothero is exiled from England, and Barbara goes with him.

When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.

While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.