A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the short amount of time he has left in the world. Eventually Strong winds up in Chinatown.
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, but he resolutely returns to his life, and wife, in America.
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.