Norman Kerry

Im Paris des späten 15. Jahrhunderts verliebt sich der missgestaltete Glöckner Quasimodo in das schöne Zigeunermädchen Esmeralda. Aber auch der böse Priester Jehan wirft ein Auge auf sie und befiehlt Quasimodo, sie für ihn zu entführen. Quasimodo wird von der königlichen Wache erwischt und verhaftet, Esmeralda verliebt sich in ihren Retter Phoebus. Der eifersüchtige Jehan sticht Phoebus nieder und kann die Tat Esmeralda in die Schuhe schieben, die dafür zum Tode verurteilt wird. Vor ihrer Hinrichtung wird sie von Quasimodo befreit, der sie im Glockenturm der Kathedrale Notre Dame versteckt...

Die Pariser Oper. Ein mysteriöses Phantom droht den neuen Direktoren der berühmten Musikbühne mit einer bevorstehenden Katastrophe, sollte nicht die junge Sängerin Christine Daaé, die Zweitbesetzung der Hauptdarstellerin, deren Part übernehmen. Als die Drohung verhallt, hält das Phantom Wort und verschleppt die junge Frau in sein tief unter der Opernbühne verborgenes Versteck. Der Viscount Raoul Chagny, Christines Geliebter, setzt alles daran, sie aus den Fängen des Phantoms zu befreien...

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

Robert Armstrong, falsely accused of a murder committed thirty years ago in a western gambling hall, faces the alternative of imprisonment or paying blackmail. A letter from Tom Mason, formerly a miner, prepares him for a visit, at which time he must make his choice.

After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconciliations. Beth is frivolous and extravagant; Peter is domineering and ambitious and has difficulty paying the bills. Daniel Rankin, who lives in the same apartment building, becomes attracted to Beth and arranges with the Marsh chauffeur to have her car break down, allowing him to offer assistance and gracefully introduce himself; Rankin later invites her to a dance. Resenting Rankin's attentions to his wife, Peter forbids her to go. However, Beth accompanies Rankin to spite her husband, and Rankin proposes that she divorce Peter and become his wife. A lost film.

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.

A princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense. A lost film.