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Safecracker Jimmy Valentine, living a reformed life as Ralph Spencer, must risk his new identity to save a child locked in a bank vault using his old skills.

A young man inherits $1,000 with the stipulation that he must account for its expenditure, leading him on a series of encounters before he makes a surprising, selfless decision that ultimately costs him a larger inheritance.

A young woman, gravely ill with pneumonia, believes she will die when the last ivy leaf falls, but an old artist's final masterpiece, a painted leaf, gives her the will to live, though it costs him his own life.

Two hapless kidnappers find their plan comically reversed when their young, energetic captive proves too much to handle, forcing them to pay his father for his return.

A scheduled reunion between two old friends after twenty years takes an unexpected turn, revealing changed fortunes and a poignant moral dilemma.

A young man desperately searches for his lost love, Eloise Vashner, in the transient, grim furnished rooms of New York, only to uncover a tragic fate linked to the very room he rents.

First Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlours.

A homeless man named Soapy tries various schemes to get arrested so he can spend the winter in the warmth and safety of a jail cell, only to be arrested when he finally resolves to turn his life around.