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| In Spain, a woman dresses as a man to rescue her long-imprisoned husband. | |
| A cursed hero is duped into betraying his beloved; he is murdered, she kills herself, and the world burns. | |
| The captain of an English warship observes the battle of good and evil when a new crewman comes aboard and has a conflict with the master-at-arms. | |
| A song contest is the background for romance and philosophizing in 16th century Germany. | |
| A royal couple, a noble priest, a bird catcher, and the queen of the night are featured characters in this fantasy setting. | |
| A selfish hero lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. | |
| In upper-class Vienna, a young woman is engaged to a boorish man when she meets her true love carrying a silver rose. | |
| In ancient China, a princess challenges suitors with riddles, until a mysterious prince arrives and offers her a challenge to guess his true name. | |
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| Mac the Knife is sentenced to hang unless he can find a way out of it. | |
| A nobleman and his new wife elope to his castle, where she finds seven locked doors. | |
| A geisha is broken-hearted when her American husband returns from years abroad with a new wife. | |
| In this adaption of a Shakespeare play, a general suspects that his wife is unfaithful after receiving false information from a trusted confidant. | |
| A gypsy woman toys with the love of two men, a soldier and a bullfighter. | |
| An Egyptian military commander struggles to choose between his love for an Ethiopian princess and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. | |
| A barber helps a nobleman wed his true love using costumes and trickery to outwit his rival. | |
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