AustLit

After failing to stop a robbery, a policeman is forced to quit his job, and turns to crime to make a living.

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police corporal investigates the presumed murder of his friend and fellow Mountie, after the latter's horse comes back riderless.

After a train robbery, the railway company sends an investigator to track down the stolen money; the investigator soon comes to suspect that the man convicted of the crime is covering for someone else.

A counterfeiter, serving a twenty-year sentence, is broken out by his gang and embarks on a systematic revenge against the treasury agent who caught him, beginning by abducting the agent's fiancee.

Dick Sterling and his comrade Santag plan to jump the claim of brother and sister Jack and Helen Caldwell, even though Dick's sister is Jack's sweetheart.

'Burke, of the Secret Service, is assigned the task of preventing a plot to smuggle into the country important jewels by way of Havana. His adventures are many and his risks are great, especially as surprise after surprise is sprung on him, and through it all runs an intelligent, plausible love story.'

Source:

'Paramount Theatre', Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 August 1924, p.3.

A United States cavalry officer is sent undercover to prevent a band of outlaws from establishing a criminal empire stretching from Baja California in Mexico into the United States.

A telegraph operator solves the mystery of a missing express train, which is carrying a valuable cargo of a new formula for granulated gasoline.

According to a contemporary Australian review,

'This is the title of a progressive Film Service production at the Lyric Theatre, to-night, featuring Miss Helen Holmes in a story of international diamond smuggling as carried out by a gang who move in the "best society." A characteristic portion of the filmic production appealing more particularly to lady patrons will be the elaborate frocks worn by the principal, which are regarded as triumphs of the costumier's art.'

Source:

'The Diamond Smugglers', Queensland Times, 23 April 1919, p.4.

Melodrama based around a false accusation.

A contemporary Australian review describes it as a 'railway drama', 'depicting an heroic girl railway signaller and two brave enginemen's adventures.'

Source:

'Crystal Theatre', Barrier Miner, 21 September 1912, p.4.