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Black Roses Synopsis

Yoda, a Japanese architect, takes a job as gardener of the estate of retired criminal Benson Burleigh. Members of Burleigh's former gang--"Monocle" Harry, Blanche De Vore, and Wong Fu--murder Burleigh, frame Yoda for the crime, and kidnap Yoda's wife Blossom. In prison, a former member of the gang who was betrayed by Blanche aids Yoda's escape and his plot of revenge. Reappearing as a Japanese nobleman, Yoda pretends to be in search of a Japanese girl to impersonate the daughter of a rich merchant and is led to his wife's hiding place. There he entraps the gang, proves that Blanche and Harry were the murderers, and is himself absolved of the charge.

The Carpet from Bagdad Synopsis

The Pasha's servant Mohamed, is entrusted to guard the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad with his life. In New York, after banker Arthur Wadsworth forces his brother Horace to give up his inheritance, Horace joins a band of crooks and plans to rob the Wadsworth Bank by tunneling from the adjacent home of antique dealer George P. A. Jones. The gang follows Jones to Egypt and Bagdad, where Horace steals the carpet and sells it to Jones. Fortune Chedsoye, the innocent daughter of a gang member, falls in love with Jones. When Fortune discovers that Mohamed plans to kill Jones to retrieve the rug, she hides it with her mother's belongings. Mohamed forces Jones, Wadsworth, and Fortune into the desert, but they escape his torture during a sandstorm. Wadsworth then rejoins the gang at Jones' home in New York. When Fortune and Jones catch the crooks tunneling, Jones, sympathetically, gives them a two hour head-start before informing the police. Fortune and Jones keep the carpet, while in the East, Mohamed bows in resignation to Allah's will.