After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
艾伦(贝特西·德雷克 Betsy Drake 饰)在旅途中结识了名叫杰夫(罗伯特·杨 Robert Young 饰)的建筑师,杰夫曾经就差一点要和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂了,在这个节骨眼上,他的未婚妻因为意外去世了。自此之后,杰夫性情大变,喜怒无常,宛如患上了精神分裂症一般。
不仅如此,厄运似乎从此就跟上了杰夫,他接二连三的失去了人生中他认为非常重要的东西,还丢掉了工作。艾伦认为这一切是有人在背后捣鬼,当她想要找出幕后的罪魁祸首时,杰夫的心理医生告诉她,杰夫也许患上了非常严重的妄想症,如果继续和他接触的话,艾伦会有生命危险。
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.