A silent movie about Rugby intertwined with a love story.
In the English countryside, young woman Mary Viner has an opportunity to marry Arnold Furze, the hard working but lonely owner of the oddly named Doomsday Farm. He sacrifices a treasured stand of old trees to afford to bring the farm up-to-date for her, but when she considers the hard work she'll do, marries the rich but otherwise inadequate local banker, to her regret.
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes. To save him Rose-marie agrees to marry influential Etienne. Meanwhile, Malone is chasing the real murderer Black Bastien. Malone is killed, Black escapes an...
Paramount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries to blackmail his wife, Faith(Doris Kenyon), who has since remarried. Learning of this attempt and that he has a fatal heart disease, he kills Deborah and turns himself in to the police.
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own *******, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
