Count Boris Romanoff (Hersholt), a modern-day Robin Hood, has stolen the Russian crown jewels with the intent of selling them and giving the proceeds to the poor. However, a group of thieves led by Hansen (Moore) learns of this plan, and plots to steal the jewels in Yokohama before they can be sold. On a ship to Japan, Hansen meets a maid named Marie (Love), who convinces him to change his ways.
While in Yokohama, an earthquake levels the city, killing the count, and trapping Hansen, his fellow thieves, and Marie in a bank vault. Hansen and Marie fall in love, and Hansen vows to follow through with the count's wishes.[4][7][8][9]
A production crew filmed scenes in Russia and Japan, as well as the United States, so that the scenes that took place in those locales would have an authenticity.[10][11] The film also incorporated documentary footage of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.[4]
^Shull, Michael Slade (September 3, 2015). "The Filmography, 1924–1925". Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909–1929: A Filmography and History. McFarland. p. 264. ISBN9781476611037.
