Valdemar Dalquist

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.

During a night at the big department store a gang of thieves are active, while the CMO is staging a pr coup to increase sales of swimsuits. The clerk Ann Marie and CEO's son Erik, manages to catch the thieves and then spend the night in the store dining and dancing.

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

The engineer Ragge has taken shipowner Gustafsson's daughter Anna-Greta on a sail cruise and they stay on an island overnight. When the shipowner finds out, Ragge gets sacked from the shipyard where he works.

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.

The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.

Greta Garbo in her first feature "Luffar-Petter" (Petter The Tramp) 1922. Only a 10-minute fragment of the film has survived. She plays one of the three daughters of a fireman who is robbed by the vagrant Peter. The two leading male roles—the fireman and the vagrant—are played by Eric Petschler, who is also the film's director and screenwriter.

Ville Bom is the owner of a dance and boxing institute and lives a quite dissolute life.

The mayoress of Grönköping is against all immoral entertainment until she one day falls in love with the circus director that arrives in town.

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.