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- A very sick Mrs. Worth is hoping her missing son Roger would return. Seeing how the Kansas Kid closely resembles Roger he gets the Kid to pose as him. His plan is the get the Worth ranch. Then complications arise when the Kid refuses to go through with the deal and the real Roger Worth arrives.
- Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years. Lucky Lorimer (Leo Maloney), a horsetrading drifter, and Larry Withers, a waiter (Jack Perrin) in the saloon of Boss Wheeler (William Dyer), discover the plot. Larry reveals he is Jimmy, and they both head for the Winters' ranch. They find Creager already there but Lucky, via a fake murder charge on Jimmy Winters, tricks Creager into denying he is Jimmy.
- An immoral small-town girl steals money from her drunk lover in order to go to a big city. There she becomes a cabaret star and seduces a wealthy married entrepreneur.
- Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.
- Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
- The railroad is building a new line, but the workers are unhappy because one of the board members, hoping to oust the man in charge of the project (Rapley), has a saboteur on site. Rapley's daughter Rose sneaks out to the project to become their telegraph operator, and with help from the supervisor "Sunrise" Smith, eventually discovers the plot and helps catch the bad guys amid several thrilling train chases.
- A college band performs in a speakeasy, where a raid results in the expulsion of the bandleader, but later he manages to land a Broadway gig.
- The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won. Determined to regain his honor, Billy goes into training, with his valet's help. Billy arranges to finance a boxing match with Burke, but because Billy's father objects, the fight must take place on a raft near Coney Island. Billy finally wins the fight, thereby impressing his fiancée and winning the respect of his father.
- A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.
- Alice, Julius, and one other character are in a combined auto/horse race. Julius gets off to a bad start when his car takes off, without him, in the wrong direction; it takes him a while to get it straightened out. Alice and the bad guy battle a bit for the lead, which Alice takes; they pass a detour, which the bad guy changes the sign for. Julius, taking the bad road, eventually drives up a cliff and, after a mighty struggle at the top, makes it, in third place, to the changeover. Alice and the bad guy ride off on horses; Julius has a wind-up wooden horse. Julius' horse keeps breaking down, eventually losing the back legs (Julius uses an empty thought balloon to hold up the rear). Alice's horse jumps a fence, and won't continue. The bad guy looks like he'll win, but Alice makes a mighty leap and knocks him off to win the race.
- The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson, and Jack Richardson, star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent-film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful Charlie Chaplin imitator.
- Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice.
- A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
- City youth sets out for West to avenge father's murder. Arrives in town where killer lives and after a series of fights he accomplishes his purpose. Falls in love with school teacher and resolves to stay in town.
- The Thompson-Thorpe automobile was once a great car but the failure of the owners to be able to agree on needed changes led to the break-up of the company, and Thompson and Thorpe has each started their own car-manufacturing company. Not knowing his true identity, Earle Thorpe Jr. has been hired by Henry Thompson to drive his new car in an upcoming race. Thompson has two crooked mechanic/engineers who plan to make their own car, using Thompson's plans, and win the big race themselves. Thompson's daughter, Ette, and Earle become close and resolve to settle the feud and re-unite Thompson and Thorpe Sr. They take the best features of both cars and combine them into one super car. But, Stanley Steele, the Thompson mechanic steals the car.
- Star reporter Tip O'Neil attends a society party given in honor of Adele Brewer, a young woman with whom he is in love. When Stock broker Richard Caldwell is shot and killed at the party, suspicion falls on Adele's brother but Tip eventually unmasks the real killer and clears Adele's brother.
- A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.
- Wes Channing comes along and joins with rancher Rufe Sims and his daughter Mary in a three-cornered fight against a despicable gambler, Flash Denby, a crooked assayer, Mark Newman, and an outlaw gang trying to take away from the rancher his property that has a gold mine on it.
- Bud Parsons fails in an attempt to steal a wallet from a well-dressed man, but the man takes him to a club and offers him a chance to make some easy money. He must pretend to be the son of Mrs. Hale, that disappeared when a very young child. Bud has a qualm or two but accepts as he sees this as a chance to earn the money to entertain Blanche Amory, a worthless show-girl, who charges a lot of money when being entertained. He and his pal, "Red," go to the Hale mansion and begin the deception. Mrs. Hale's daughter, Ellen, immediately attracts his attention, even though it is not considered proper for a brother to start hitting on his sister, even if the brother is an impostor. Lewis, the man who hired Bud to pose as William Hale, claims the $20,000 reward for the return of the son, but Bud and "Red' rob him after he cashes the reward check at the bank. Meanwhile, from out of nowhere, the real William Hale shows up but Lewis has him tossed in jail. Things eventually work out to everybody's satisfaction, with Lewis being the notable exception.
- Motion Picture News Booking Guide, 1929. Small town girl goes to city to become actress after meeting hoofer. They get work in a cabaret, but show backer makes life unpleasant for girl. When he is shot by an enemy, hoofer takes blame believing girl committed the murder. When it is proven that a henchman of the crook's was the guilty party the boy is exonerated and marries the girl.
- In a plot to take control of the Lazy Y ranch, which holds water rights to the local area, a rancher kidnaps the Lazy Y owner's daughter. The ranch foreman manages to eventually foil the plot and get the girl.
- When the owner of a thoroughbred racehorse is murdered, a man steps in as the guardian of his two children and helps unravel the mystery ahead of a major race.
- The first of a series of twelve-proposed features starring ex-prizefighter Billy Sullivan. He plays a washed-up, drifting fighter, reduced to the job of a cook in a small-town diner. But when a fighter fails to show up, Billy is called on to substitute and take a beating. Billy has other plans.
- Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
- Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.
- Leonard Tavernake, an ambitious young real estate broker in London, befriends a girl who has attempted to commit suicide. She is one of two sisters who have come from America on a vaudeville tour. The girl's sister, who has married a millionaire, has driven him mad by her unkindness, and keeps him captive in the country, alive only so as to be able to sign her checks. Leonard also becomes entangled with the second sister's, discovers her perfidy, and saves her from death at the hands of her maniac husband, thereby winning the love of the sister he initially befriended.
- Sam Stallings kills and robs Lynn Durant. The Man from Oklahoma arrives and he and Stallings quickly become enemies. The Oklahoman eventually learns who killed Durant and avoiding the trap on his life by Stalling's henchman, sends his dog for the Sheriff while he goes after Stallings.
- Gerald Morely's father commits suicide, leaving a note blaming his despair on a stock swindle perpetrated by John Randall. Randall denies the charge and is himself murdered by Tom Bennett, the real culprit. Bennett frames Jerry by having Deagan (the butler) plant the murder weapon in a way that makes Jerry look guilty. Posing as her protector, Bennett persuades Randall's daughter, Gloria, to marry him, although Jerry also falls in love with her. But Jerry is arrested, tried for murder, and convicted of killing his own father. He escapes on Gloria's wedding night and arrives in time to overhear her admit her love for him and Bennett drunkenly confess to Randall's murder.
- Sheriff John Arden loves schoolmarm Mary Blythe, but before she'll consent to marry him, she wants to take a trip to New York City. When a bank is robbed shortly thereafter, the robber takes refuge in the schoolhouse and is helped by Mary. He eventually flees to New York and she goes with him, but it turns out that everything is not quite as it seems to be.
- After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
- A pearl stolen from an Indian idol results in nothing but trouble for its owner. After he receives death threats by note pinned to a dagger, he decides to gather his relatives in his old mansion for a reading of his will. Unfortunately, the family members are being mysteriously bumped off one by one. The butler and an heiress set out to discover what's going on.
- A gangster falls in love with the daughter of a former colleague who has quit the rackets. However, things aren't exactly what they appear to be.
- A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters/fire-fighting and fire-fighters fighting in the Big City. Episode titles: Chapter 1: Smoke Eaters - Chapter 2: Scarlet Patrol - Chapter 3: Silent Alarm - Chapter 4: Blazing Paths - Chapter 5: Scalding Seas - Chapter 6: Death's Battalion - Chapter 7: Daring Deeds - Chapter 8: Danger Ahead - Chapter 9: Desperate Chances - Chapter 10: Heroic Hearts.
- William Gordon, Jr., a constant source of irritation to his airplane manufacturer father, leaves home after an argument. Accompanied by his faithful mechanic, William flies his airplane in search of adventure. He soon meets inventor John Courtney and becomes enamored with his daughter, Helen. To help John overcome an unscrupulous rival who covets his invention, William enters a transcontinental airplane race. William wins the race, thus ensuring a government contract for John and Helen's love for himself.
- A society couple lose their two-year old son in ship-fire and a fireman, finding the child, adopts him. The society couple adopt a baby girl. Both children grow up and meet in later years but the girl has an affair with a rich profligate. Meanwhile, the boy has become a fireman and through his instrumentality the girl is saved from death in fire. She gives up the rich youth and marries the firefighter.
- Outlaw "Dutch" Haynes is extorting money from the ranchers by threatening to blow up the dam that keeps the valley from flooding. To get to that point, Haynes, and his henchmen, have also practiced a little kidnapping, highway robbery, and all-around general connivery. But cowhand James Murdock has been on hand to stop the anti-social behavior, and looks to do so again regarding blowing up the dam.
- Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."