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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.
- 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'.
- A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
- A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her and she is in trouble. When he gets there, he finds her dead. He sets out to track down the husband.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
- At an eastern college the girl meets a boy who loves her. But the girl thinks continually of a boy who lives out west. The easterner goes out west and shows his bravery, living down the reputation of tenderfoot and capturing notorious cattle rustlers as well.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spirited story of West, which begins after the hero has spent four years overseas and has left the army so much of a fighting devil that he becomes embroiled in a mix-up. Learning that his antagonist has died from wounds is the reason for the hero going West, when he meets a tramp who is on his way to join a gang of outlaws and who invites the ex-soldier to join. There is a girl who lives near the gang headquarters, and meeting her changes the hero's perspective.
- A daring gang of bandits outside of Havana becomes so bold that the government sends two aviators borrowed from the U. S. Army after them. Flying over the camp, the mechanic is wounded and they land, hiding the plane. A girl nurses the mechanic back to health. The aviator is captured by the bandits but wins their confidence and escapes. Learning that the bandit chief covets the girl, the mechanic hides her in a cave, where they are joined by the aviator. They are attacked by the bandits, but manage to escape in the hidden plane, and happiness follows.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he'll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn't about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good... Will Jimmie's fortune come true? Will he be able to defeat Fenton and win the heart of the girl? Watch and find out!
- A 15-chapter serial.
- Bill Miller, youngest member of the notorious Range Riders, gets job as pony express rider. Indians become dangerous on the war path. Bill forestalls plan of a bandit chief to rob mails while trying to win the love of a girl and the respect of "Uncle Sam."
- 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.
- In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cowboy Andy Fowler rescues a man from a burning cave. It turns out that the man is a member of a gang of rustlers, and out of gratitude, the gang makes Andy one of its own, letting him wear a green armband that signifies his status as a gang member. Despite her love for him, Margie Landers reports him to the sheriff when her father's cattle are stolen. The sheriff has two problems: he is secretly in love with Margie; and, he is actually the head of the rustler gang.
- Rambunctious cowboy Big Boy Bronson's antics get under his father's skin, and ranch hands Larson and Powell's efforts to make him look bad don't help matters. Things turn serious, though, when Bronson has to prove that he's not involved with a string of cattle thefts--actually being done by Larson and Powell--and a bank robbery he was unwittingly lured into by the pair.
- 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.
- 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.
- An outlaw decides to hang up his guns and lead the "straight" life. His foster son falls for the daughter of a wealthy estate owner. The crooked manager of the estate wants the girl for himself--so he can control the estate when the father dies--and tells the father that the boy is an outlaw's son. Complications ensue.
- Jim Loraine flees his Idaho ranch after his brother, wearing Jim's hat, shoots a man and Jim is accused. In Montana Jim finds a prospector that has been shot who tells him of a map to his gold strike. Jim finds the map and gives it to his niece. But the man that shot the prospector now arrives to take the map away from her. When Jim drives him away, he get himself made a Deputy and returns to legally kill the man he now knows is wanted in Idaho.
- Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman went at it for all they were worth, and after risking their lives and going through gun fights and other trying events won out at last.