An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.