A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby.

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son.

1820. A squire kills his pregnant mistress to marry a heiress but is exposed by his mother's dream.

A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.

Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....

A small boy [Billy] looking for a way of avoiding the workhouse looks for a father. Rl. 1 Captain Hunt of the ketch `Nancy Bell’ sends his crew off for a drink before they sail. They take along Sam who has been reading his copy of `The War Cry’ and is a member of the Salvation Army Band. Nosey Jones has died and left his son, Billy, and his dog Matey destitute. Matey runs up to Sam and Billy decides that Sam, as a father, would keep him out of the workhouse. He rushes up to Sam and calls him father (808).

Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....

The romantic 13th-century history of Prince Llywelyn of Wales, and his conflict with King Edward I of England.

A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.