'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

In Mexico a girl saves a treasure hunter from a mutinous crew and he saves her from her gambling husband.

An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.

A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.

Cinders is about a professor who inherits both a vast fortune and a luxurious hotel on the French Riviera. He leaves his modest family house in London – where he keeps his insects – and takes Betty, the maid, along with him to his new home.