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- Two couples' romances are fancifully intertwined.
- A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
- Ed Andrews, a young shipping clerk, is in love with Dora Birch, and has as rival Tom Matthews, but wins the girl, much to his mother's satisfaction. A raise in salary hastens their marriage and two years later their baby arrives. Andrews, celebrating the event, goes to the corner bar with George Gardner, his chum, and, after several drinks, Gardner gets into a fight with Jim Matthews, Tom's brother, knocking him down with a blow, Matthew's head striking the pavement, causing his death. George runs away, and Ed bends over Matthews, trying to raise him. The crowd threatens him and he starts to run, but is soon caught. In the morning he is fined for disorderly conduct, and is near freedom when word comes that Matthews is dead, and he is held for murder. Tom is a ward detective, and four months after the arrest, swears that Jim was killed while resisting highway robbery. Ed is sentenced to death, and the shock kills his wife, his mother taking the child and rearing her. She pleads with the Governor, and in view of the evidence he commutes Ed's sentence to imprisonment for life. His mother tells him of his wife's death, and, with his nerve crushed, he begins his prison life. Nineteen years later his daughter falls in love with Paul Matthews, son of the man who had sworn away his life. Ed's mother continues her efforts in his behalf, and Gardner, dying in a distant city, tells the truth about the assault. Ed is pardoned and meets his daughter for the first time in the warden's office. Ed and his daughter are having luncheon on the beach when he sees a man fall from a boat, swims out to save him and brings him to shore, but the man is dead and Ed recognized the body as that of Tom Matthews, the brother of the man his friend had killed, and on whose evidence he had spent twenty years in prison. Then he feels that while nothing can give him back his lost youth, his wasted life and the wife he loved, he has overtaken the man who was responsible for his troubles.
- Jews are expelled from the city of Utopia.
- The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, 'Prairie Love'.
- Bill Collins meets up with his look-alike the Phantom and is soon involved in his fight with Buck Houston. Houston has a big robbery planned but the Phantom beats him to it. Bill fights off Houston's men only to find the Phantom shot and dying and unaware that Houston is about to finish him off also.
- A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull. Other fine actors in the cast include the always popular Bryant Washburn and a young Bob Steele, who appears under his real name Bob Bradbury Jr. The story takes place in the 1860s or 1870s near Spirit Lake, Iowa. Settlements of whites are growing in that region but the Sioux Indians also have professed their interest in one such settlement. Chief Sitting Bull surveys the settlement at Spirit Lake from afar and with the advice of the Great Spirit vows to retake the land that belonged to his fathers.
- John Harland is a former boxer turned reverend posted to the town of Kangaroo. He falls in love with Muriel, an orphaned heiress, and discovers that her guardian Martin Giles is embezzling her inheritance. Harland earns the ire of parishioners by teaching young boys to box, and Giles manipulates local opinion to have the bishop remove him. Harland rescues a gentleman from a mugging in Sydney who suggests that he go to Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has driven the church out of the area. Harland preaches, and unexpectedly sees Muriel in the congregation; her property is near Kalmaroo. But her overseer is Red Jack Braggan who leads the gang which violently breaks up Harland's mission - much to the distress of Muriel who regards Harland as too timid - and is in cahoots with Giles. Harland goes to work as a station hand at a property neighbouring Muriel's. Giles arranges for Red Jack to kidnap Muriel so that he might marry the girl and thus prevent her giving evidence against him. Harland rescues Muriel: they leap from the stage coach as it thunders across Hampden Bridge into the Kangaroo River.
- Frontier scout, buffalo hunter, and all-around good guy Lem Hawks romances Betty Rossman amid the backdrop of a fictional account of events that lead to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- A man named Chandler, claiming to be a novelist in search of local color, arrives at a town near the Mexican border, where he makes advances toward Jo, a girl living a solitary life on a desert ranch. Manning, a cowboy, suspects Chandler's motives, and his suspicions are strengthened when Chandler is caught cheating at cards. Following a gang of Mexicans to their mountain retreat, Manning learns that Chandler and the Mexicans are smuggling opium across the border. Two gang members are killed in the ensuing fight, but Chandler, wounded by Manning after a chase on the cliffs, escapes to Jo's home, where he denounces Manning as a smuggler. Manning arrives and dispels Jo's misgivings about him by revealing that he is a Texas Ranger, sworn to secrecy. Chandler is allowed to escape, and Manning and Joe are united.
- Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.
- Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimately, one of those who gave their lives.
- Ward Curtis, president of a development company, comes to the western town of Los Huesos with his daughter, Wynne, to investigate a report made by one of his field scouts that there is a gold stream on the land occupied by the Bar C outfit. The Bar C people have no legal title to the land, but they have terrorized the neighborhood, and intimidated the government officials. The land is used for grazing purposes, and the Bar C people know nothing about the gold stream. There has also come to Los Huesos a cowpuncher known only as "The Stranger," the only man who refuses to be intimidated by Bar C crowd. Curtis meets the Stranger, who consents to assist Curtis in his undertaking, hoping to win favor with Wynne. She is mildly interested in him, but is disappointed and bored by the town and its people, and after a week or so packs her bags and leaves for home, saying that the Stranger is the only picturesque thing she has seen in this land of lizards. Near the Bar C holdings is a small sheep ranch operated by Dave Moore and his daughter, Bobbie, as a blind to cover more important operations, by moonlight Moore secretly pans the gold stream on the Bar C ranch. Bobbie maintains a disguise as a boy for her own protection from the lawless cowpunchers, and to keep them from becoming interested in her father's affairs. The Stranger sets out to investigate the placer site, and stops at the Moore cabin to make inquiries about the Bar C crowd. He meets Bobbie without suspecting her disguise, and she manifests considerable interest in him. The Stranger locates the placer stream, but is observed by Moore, who hastens to the land office and files on the creek bed. By moonlight Moore builds on his claim, but is discovered by one of the Bar C outlaws and killed. The Stranger, who has set up his camp in a blind canyon known as the "Cow's Mouth" near the creek, hears the exchange of shots, gets into the scrap and drives away the outlaw, then brings Moore's body to Bobbie. The Bar C crowd, led by Moran, set out to "get" the Stranger. They come to Bobbie's cabin, but she directs them to town. They search the town, then decide that Bobbie has lied to them, and start again for her cabin. The Stranger discovers that Bobbie is a girl, and falls in love with her. He leaves the cabin and goes to the Cow's Mouth to "hide out" from the Bar C crowd. The Bar C boys come to Bobbie's cabin, and she is handled brutally by Moran to get her to tell what has become of the Stranger. Her hat falls off, and her secret is discovered. Moran claims her as his personal prize, and they set off to pursue the Stranger. They see him enter the narrow passage into the Cow's Mouth. Inside he starts a grass fire, then slips out with his horse through a secret passage which is unknown to the Bar C fellows. Leaving one of their number to guard Bobbie, the others go in after the Stranger, but are soon driven out by the fire. As they come single file through the passage the Stranger picks off the first two or three with his gun; the rest surrender. Moran is one of the men who was killed. Bobbie is taken to the Bar C ranch house by the outlaws. The Stranger rides into town and turns his captives over to the authorities, and enlists the men there to go to Bobbie's rescue. Later, as Bobbie and the Stranger are about to board a train for their honeymoon, Curtis rushes up to them and announces that, by the death of her father, Bobbie is now the owner of the gold stream claim.
- The romance, discovery, and rise of phenom boxer Dynamite Dan.
- A cowboy drifts into an Arizona border town and finds himself in the middle of a fight between the townspeople and a Mexican bandit gang that has been terrorizing the territory.
- Easterner Tom Butler, a disappointment to his father, travels West and finds work on a ranch owned by Jim Lane, where he soon falls in love with Leona, the boss's daughter. While recuperating from a broken ankle, Tom is ordered to guard some valuable stock certificates, but is overwhelmed by a gang of outlaws. Tom is suspected of the crime, but he evades arrest and captures the gang singlehandedly, winning Jim's approval to marry Leona.
- Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
- Don Lawson, alias Don Armingo, is a member of the Secret Service who joins a group of smugglers at the Mexican border. As Don is about to make an arrest, the smugglers take flight, kidnapping his sweetheart, Doris Pomeroy, but Carmelita, a tango dancer in love with Don but in league with the smugglers, releases him. However, he rejects her amorous advances, and is forced to escape. Following Doris and her kidnappers in his airplane, he circles above the getaway car and plucks her from the tonneau cover just as it speeds over an embankment.
- At the estate of nouveau rich businessman King Holcomb and his daughter Sylvia, a phony styling himself the Count de Lyons, conspires in the theft of Sylvia's diamond necklace, and tries to cast the blame on another guest Paul Beldere.
- Frank Stevens comes west to claim the ranch he has inherited from his father on the condition that he first prove himself worthy. The hands make life difficult for Frank, who chooses a donkey for his transportation after being bucked off a horse; but he shows fine mettle while getting involved in rodeo stunts. Howard Gribbon frames Frank for a bank robbery and kidnaps Ruth Welsh, the banker's daughter; but Frank chances upon the real culprits and rescues Ruth just before the automobile goes over a cliff and kills the villain.
- Medicine man Dr. Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still-locked strongbox is opened and the money is missing, and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.
- Jack Harding defies a villainous gang by fencing in his claim with barbed wire. Headed by Bart Moseby the gang plans to get him. Harding hides in his sweetheart's room to overhear their plans but is double crossed by one of them who commits a crime and leaves Harding's hat and gun as evidence. To save her son at the trial, Harding's mother holds up the court while her son leaps from the window to his horse. A fight between Harding and Moseby follows, ending in the latter's death and Harding's freedom.
- The story deals, as its name implies, with the rigid law of the Northwest and with Jack Meadows' efforts to set free the girl's father, who is the sheriff. The man has been wounded by outlaws and found in a dying state by Jack and his pal. The two set out to bring the criminals to justice. The girl at first misjudges Jack and believes him responsible for her father's disappearance. When he proves the respected deputy is in reality the leader of a band of liquor smugglers and captures the culprits, she changes her mind. Jack's identity as a government ranger is established.
- Burley Walters and 'Shadow' Brice, rival crook leaders are after the Denman diamonds. 'Shadow' wins the confidence of Daphne Denman, but Walters beats him to it and gets the diamonds as they are being transported on a San Francisco ferry boat. After a furious fight 'Shadow' wrests the gems from Walters and then reveals himself to the girl as a secret service man.
- Andy Green, a colorful cowboy, finds work at the Flying U cattle ranch, owned by Chip. Chip's foreman Dunk, who is Elsie Gray's guardian, attempts to force her to sign papers releasing him, but she refuses because he has stolen some of her money. Chip fires Dunk, who buys an adjoining sheep ranch, cutting off Chip's water supply and endangering his cattle. When Chip breaks a leg, Andy is made foreman and, in the clash between the cattlemen and the sheepmen, proves himself to be a brave man despite his tall tales. Andy succeeds in preventing Elsie from signing away her claims on Dunk in order to get water for the ranch and, after a hard fight, beats Dunk. Elsie, no longer in love with her suitor Pink, has fallen for Andy, who loves her as well. Andy will marry Elsie and stay on at the Flying U as foreman.
- Brian, of the Fighting O'Farrells, has as a neighbor at his country estate, John MacDonald, who is averse to fighting. MacDonald's daughter, Enid, is interested in settlement work in the city. Through the instrumentality of a badger game, Brian is lured to a dive on the waterfront. In an upper room of the same place, Enid MacDonald has also been imprisoned, as she has information of the crook's activities. Brian discovers her and, after considerable excitement, including a high dive into the water, effects her rescue. All ends happily.
- Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats, from whose clutches and abuse she is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, for she regards him as something different from the white people she has seen. Jack's sweetheart and her father are parties of a wagon-train headed for this place, and as luck has been against him, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. He is amused at this and says "Will you?" "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies the little Indian. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people, who are embittered against all whites.
- Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
- Dan Carson outwits the villainous Zack Wilson and his gang in order to retain half-ownership of the Eagle's Claw goldmine, and thereby wins the favor of the mine's other half-owner, John Sherwood, and the hand of his daughter, Jessie.
- Buffalo Bill performs kindnesses for a native American and a runaway slave, and plans to build a new town along a planned train route.
- Larry Connell arrives in town and wins a cattle ranch in a poker game. The former owner then forces the judge to start legal action to retrieve it. When Larry is evicted and the cattle sold, he fights back by first stealing the cattle money and using it to hire a lawyer.
- After Ned Hadley is badly wounded in a shootout with bandits, he asks his friend, The Stranger, to assume his identity. The Stranger is accepted by Ned's blind father and his sister, Nell. However, Sly Stevens, who has wanted Hadley's property, accuses "Ned" of being an impostor and a killer, and has him charged with murder.
- A professional boxer's manager takes the athlete to an isolated ranch to recover from his boozing and partying. While there, he gets mixed up with a pretty ranch girl and stolen jewels.
- Ranch hand Tex Gardy comes to the aid of the father of the girl he loves, whose ranch is being threatened by a gang of criminals led by a woman known as The Hellion.
- Percy Browning, the spineless son of a wealthy man, is thrown out of his eastern college after refusing to enter into a fight that he had instigated. Hoping to make a man out of him, his father sends him and his equally spineless friend out West to a lumber camp he owns. At the camp, where the men follow the rule of survival of the toughest, Percy is tormented by the biggest bully, Big Dan. Percy soon falls in love with Peggy Richmond, the daughter of a rival lumber camp owner. Because Peggy inspires Percy to become more of a man, he eventually proves himself, even to Big Dan, winning Peggy's heart and his father's respect.
- Bob, a young sailor, lands in San Francisco, California, and unwittingly becomes involved in drug smuggling activities when he is sent to deliver opium to Wong Chang, a tong leader. A rival gang waylays Bob, steals the package, and leaves him stranded in the country. Bob finds work in a store and falls in love with Ruth Ketchell, forgetting Wong Chang's daughter, Mui Far, who loves him. Wong Chang finds Bob and returns him to the ship's captain, who beats the sailor for allegedly stealing the opium. The tong kidnaps Ruth and threatens to kill Bob, but Mui Far comes to their rescue. Realizing the futility of her love, Mui Far briefly considers suicide, but decides instead to accept the man Wong Chang has chosen as her husband.
- A prize fighter, The Walloping Kid, is forced to give up boxing because of interference from his wealthy father and travels west to run his father's ranch. A case of mistaken identity at the train station by the shady foreman, who is using the ranch for nefarious purposes, leads to a stranger posing as the son. The Walloping Kid is more than happy to let the misunderstanding continue so that he can take on the identity of a wanted outlaw and be free to investigate what's really going on at the ranch... and maybe also romance a young woman named Sally who is in the area with her prospector dad who has found gold. The stranger who is posing as the son turns out to be the wanted outlaw. He tries to collect "rent" from Sally. She fights him off twice. On the second occasion, The Walloping Kid rides onto the scene and chases after the stranger/real outlaw leading to a fight on the railroad tracks with an oncoming locomotive. Both survive but the outlaw flees. The Walloping Kid and Sally sport a pair of fun hats while attending a large fiesta celebrating California's statehood. There's a $500 challenge to defeat Wild-Cat McGee in a boxing match. Wild-Cat makes short work of the local talent until The Walloping Kid enters the ring. Afterwards, The Walloping Kid learns one of the men on the ranch is an undercover detective sent by his father. While The Walloping Kid presumably presents evidence of the foreman's rustling to the sheriff (it isn't shown on screen), the detective follows the outlaw who follows the prospector to his mine. But the outlaw kills the detective and tricks the prospector into thinking he did it. The outlaw immediately blackmails the prospector for half the gold and blackmails Sally into accepting his marriage proposal. The Walloping Kid sees the outlaw and Sally kissing and, to protect her father, she's unable to tell him the truth. The prospector confesses the killing to the sheriff and The Walloping Kid but forensics proves it wasn't his gun. The Walloping Kid lassos and ties up the outlaw before he can escape and ends the movie on a high note smooching with Sallly.
- After being released from prison, "Australia Joe" attempts a bank robbery and escapes. Out west, his gang robs the town-hall and steals papers for some mysterious person "higher up." Joe learns the identity of this man and prevents his marriage to the daughter of a man he has framed. To the surprise of all, Joe discloses himself to be a Secret Service agent rather than a notorious bandit.
- Steve Lanyon known as the Desert Rat returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it. After he gets his girl friend to marry Steve hoping that will do it, Steve's old girl friend arrives and when Brazos is attracted to her, Sadie gets jealous and kills Brazos. Sadie flees and when the Sheriff arrives he finds the new girl with the gun in her hand.
- A runaway train hurtles toward a passenger train on the same track. A female telegraph operator hired over the objection of the owner is the only person who can stop it. She overcomes impossible odds to save the imperiled passengers.
- (1941, Ellkay) Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Buzzy Henry, George Morrell. A rancher is shot while looking over a remote part of his property. The dying rancher tells of seeing a black phantom pinto when he was shot. What is the secret of Black Mountain Cut, the area where the rancher was shot? Dave and Buzz try to find out. 16mm.