In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.

During the English Civil War, Lord Forrest attempts to sign up with the Royalist army, but is mistaken for a Roundhead and forced to join their number instead.

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.

'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)

In Algiers, brigands throw the lieutenant over a cliff and sailors save him from a flooding cave.

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...

In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.

A manager's mistress cons a financier into buying a dud oil claim.

A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.