Mitra and Neng Mardinah are in love with each other. This makes Mardjohan jealous. So he spreads viscious rumors that Mitra is the son of a criminal. Mitra leaves town out of frustration. One day, Mardjohan has an accident, and is saved by Mitra. At home, Mardjohan's mother recognizes Mitra as her long lost son. Mitra is Mardjohan's brother.
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands.
Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a gang of evil Whites.