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- A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- A former Vietnam War lieutenant reforms his old team in order to help a revolutionary's sister overthrow a ruthless dictator.
- A look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.
- TV MovieIn Lake Placid, NY Rose inherits her mom's home, reuniting her with her childhood friend Summer. Sparks fly with old pal Everett, and the trio uses Rose's mom's jam recipe to save the town church, blending nostalgia, love, and community.
- A nanny and her friends protect a baby from her violent biological parents while the adoptive parents are away on vacation.
- Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements. Rated PG for mild violence and language.
- An autobiographical spoof shows a harried filmmaker, Fred G. Sullivan (1945-1996), dodging creditors, irreverent children and dirty diapers.
- Fred Meredith is a victim of the "white plague." While assisting an old lady who has fallen in the street, he is brought to the notice of Mr. Walters, a rich philanthropist, and his daughter. He invites Fred to call at his house, which he does. Fred is advised to go to a sanitarium. He arrives at Ray Brook Sanitarium. Scenes are shown where Fred is taking the cure, right on to his final discharge from the sanitarium. He decides to go to a health resort and while there receives a visit from his benefactors. Fred has been indulging in various winter sports and persuades Mr. Walters and Bertha to visit the skating race with him. The box office is robbed. Fred goes after the robbers. The hold-up men are thrown from their sleigh over a cliff, one of them is killed and the other tries to escape with the money but is captured by Fred. Fred realizes that Bertha's interest in him has grown to love, and that he also loves her; thus two loving and sincere hearts are united.
- A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
- Andre Dubois, a lonely trapper living high atop a snow-covered mountain, unwittingly comprises Louise Graham, a young girl from the city, when he shelters her in his cabin through the night of a heavy blizzard. After Louise's fiancé forsakes her for her innocent act of seeking refuge from the storm, Andre insists upon marrying her and takes her to his cabin where he lives only as her protector. One day, Louise's profligate brother Paul arrives, fleeing from a murder charge, and Andre recognizes him as the man who betrayed his sister Mitchette. Although sworn to vengeance, Andrew allows Paul to escape. Touched that Andre has renounced his pledge for her sake, Louise begins to feel a spark of love for her husband, and gradually her gratitude blossoms into a genuine love for the man who saved her.
- Henri Labordie's wife dies after giving birth to twin children, Jacques and Jeanne. Before he takes the children to the Canadian woods to live he makes an agreement with his friend Duval Hebert that when Jeanne is old enough she shall marry Hebert's son Louis. In their new home Labordie lavishes all his affection on Jacques, a weak and sickly youth. Francois, a half-breed, worships Jeanne as she grows up to winsome womanhood. Donald Duncan, a government surveyor, meets Jeanne. He becomes infatuated with her, and she with him. Jacques tells his father, now totally blind, and Labordie forbids Jeanne to see Duncan. Love finds a way, however, and Jeanne promises to wed Duncan when he has completed his work for the government. Jacques, who has injured his hand, persuades Jeanne to take him canoeing in the St. Lawrence. Francois sees the canoe upset. He saves Jeanne, but her brother is drowned. Jeanne has been warned that any great shock would kill her father, and so the girl cuts off her hair and tells her father that Jeanne is dead and that she is Jacques. When Duncan returns for his bride he is told of the death of Jeanne. On his deathbed Labordie asks Jeanne, whom he believes is Jacques, to go to Montreal to Duval Hebert, and resuming her own dress and name she does so. Hebert tells Jeanne that it was her father's wish that she marry his son Louis, a dissipated youth. She is horror-stricken, but to keep her father's vow consents that the marriage be celebrated after Louis' returns from the North where he has gone to settle a question concerning his father's land. In the north woods Louis meets Duncan, who is working for the Hebert firm, and when the young man quarrels with a guide, Duncan saves his life. Young Hebert insists that the surveyor return to Montreal and receive the thanks of his father and fiancée. Duncan accepts the invitation and he and Jeanne meet again. At first he believes that Jeanne tricked him, but when he has learned the truth, Duncan takes the unhappy girl in his arms and tells her again of his love. Louis, half intoxicated, sees them and insults Jeanne. Francois resents the affront to his idol, and throws Louis out of the room. Louis tries to get at the half-breed, but falls over the banisters and is killed. Not knowing this, Duncan goes away, fearing to cause Jeanne trouble. Months later, once again in the north woods, Francois is surprised to see Duncan riding toward him. The young surveyor asks whether Louis and Jeanne are happy in their marriage. By remaining silent, Francois might keep Jeanne and Duncan from meeting, and perhaps in time win her for himself. But his love for her is so sincere that he prefers her happiness to his own, and Jeanne and Duncan are reunited in the northern woods where they first met.
- Cary Grant narrates, and appears at the end of, this public service announcement. The Will Rogers Memorial Hospital treats patients with tuberculosis and conducts research to find a cure.
- Ruined by a powerful financial ring, Farrington commits suicide, after which his daughter Paula vows to take vengeance in her own hands and hunt the man behind the ring. At a house party, Paula meets Dr. Smith, who falls in love with her, but a misunderstanding separates them. Unsuccessful in locating the man, but knowing that papers in the house of Van Brunt, one of the ring members, will identify the leader, Paula secures the papers with the aid of Old Bill Fitch, a reformed burglar. To her horror, she discovers that the man is Dr. Smith's father. Paula relinquishes vengeance for love, and Dr. Smith's father, realizing the error of his ways, agrees to make reparations.
- The story concerns the fortunes of two miners who have cleaned up a big stake and are starting for the States. One of them is infatuated with a dance-hall girl, whom he wishes to take back with him, but she thinking she is not good enough for him, refuses. The girl is compelled by threats to enter into a scheme in which the man she loves and his partner will be robbed of their possessions. The girl reluctantly helps to entrap the men, but before it is too late she relents, and throwing all fear from her, she dashes through a blinding snowstorm to the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, and assists them in saving the man she loves.
- Mr. Farley wants his daughter, Jean, to marry Clarence Ponsonby, a young man styling him a self-made man. Jean thinks he made a pretty poor job of himself, despises him and is already in love with Cutey Mason. All live near Lake George up in the cold country, and when the lake freezes over, Jean undertakes to teach Clarence and her father skating. By previous arrangement, Cutey shows up, proposes to Jean in the middle of the lake, then when Pa and Clarence stumblingly interpose, the young people simply elope, leaving them to slowly and painfully follow. Hiring a cutter sleigh, Jean and Cutey start for the Justice of the Peace ten miles up the lake, closely pursued by father and Clarence in another sleigh. Cutey's sleigh turns over, but they make their way to a nearby toboggan slide, pile onto one of the big sleds and shoot out over the lake at a high rate of speed. Their pursuers do likewise, but Clarence gets left behind by falling down a steep hill into a crowd of revelers on their way to the mid-winter ice carnival. Mr. Farley, taking a short cut through the deep snow, reaches the Justice of the Peace ahead of the elopers, but that gentleman is on his way to the carnival. He meets Cutey and Jean, warns them papa is awaiting them at his house and tells them to meet him at the carnival, where he will marry them. Cutey hires an ice-boat and is soon speeding towards the carnival at the upper end of the lake. Papa Farley sees them, jumps into another ice-boat, and after some hair-raising bursts of speed, all reach the carnival. The elopers are married by the Justice just before Papa Farley and Clarence, whom he has met at the carnival, arrive. Papa decides to make the best of it, tells Clarence he is not wanted, then all make their way round the carnival. After watching the ice-skating, both fancy and racing, the parade floats and the ice palace, the newlyweds depart with Pa's blessing in a big dog-sledge on the honeymoon.
- George Benson, son of a rich lumber merchant, and John Dalroy, a lumberyard employee, are both in love with Mary Moore. John obtains Mary's promise to become his wife. When John draws his payroll from the bank, George takes the money, and the blame is placed on John, who is arrested in Mary's presence. On his way from the station after serving two years in prison, John meets his old rival George and realizes that if he goes back to Mary, he will only bring disgrace upon her; he decides to leave for the North. Seeing John get on the train, Geroge is satisfied with the result of his plans, but his pleasure is short-lived as his severe cough becomes more pronounced. Just before he finally succumbs to tuberculosis, George confesses that he took the money and put the blame on John. Mary insists that George's father write a letter to a friend in the North (a guide), giving a description of John. When John reaches the northern country he engages a guide to take him over the hills, and the guide, desirous of getting the gold that John has in his possession, shoots John and escapes with the dog team. He is later killed. After the attack that the treacherous guide had made on him, John falls exhausted and as he lies on the ground, the falling snow slowly covers his body until a blizzard finally buries him from sight. The guides who have located John's trail finally come to his frozen body. The girl who has been waiting for the return of her sweetheart little dreams that he will be brought home to her dead.
- Mountain Lake PBS presents the first of a series of TV stories about the creation of Promised Land: an Adirondack Folk Opera. The opera is composed by Glenn McClure. The stories feature music sung by the Northern Lights Choir, under the artistic direction of Helen Demong. Emmy award-winning producer Paul Larson is producing the series of TV stories for his "Spotlight" segment.
- Harry Drake, agent for the Romaine Pulpwood Co., of New York, while exploring the great North woods for a new pulpwood forest, runs across a high water falls in the midst of a valuable tract of pulpwood and, learning that it belongs to an invalid who lives alone on the place with his daughter, he plans to get the property away from them. Romaine conspires to rob Gregg and Nell, by means of a fake deed which they represent to Gregg as a lease for the water power rights. Nell's sweetheart, Ned Early, who runs an artistic camera shop in the village, sees Romaine and Drake looking over the falls, and suspicious of their actions, he calls on Nell to warn her. The conspirators are already there and Gregg is about to sign the deed when Ned discovers that it is a deed instead of a lease as represented. Nell upbraids Ned for interfering with their plans as she and her father are in urgent need of cash, and as she does not understand the difference between a deed and a lease she is very bitter. Ned offers to loan her some money, but she disdains it. Returning to the hotel, Romaine and Drake try to think out a plan to achieve their ends. The next day Nell comes to town and Romaine sees her and tells Drake to follow her and get into her good graces. Drake does so and he and Nell walk toward her home. Passing Ned's studio he comes out and meets them. Nell snubs him. Following them, he overhears them on the bridge and tries to explain to Nell that Drake was trying to rob her father. She refuses to listen. A quarrel takes place when Drake interferes and he and Ned grapple, Ned nearly throwing him from the bridge. Drake returns beaten to the hotel, while Ned and Nell go toward her home. Drake meets his half-breed guide on the hotel steps. The guide has seen the quarrel and a sudden desire for revenge prompts him to offer the guide $50 to put Ned out of the way. The guide follows Ned and Nell and watches him leave Nell at the steps. When Ned returns he decoys him to the edge of the high falls with a cry of distress and as Ned looks into the gorge the guide shoots his staff from his hand and Ned plunges over the edge of the cliff. The carnival at Saranac begins and Nell is the "Lady of the Snows." Drake is very attentive and as Romaine sees that Drake is winning her confidence he proposes that Drake elope with her to Canada and desert her while he, Romaine, puts pressure on Gregg forcing him to sign away his property. Nell allows Drake to attend her at the carnival events and when she finally learns that Ned has been missing several days she is sorry that she treated him so badly and broods over it until she is conscience stricken and loses all interest in the carnival sports. She asks Drake to take her home. They start. In the meantime Ned has been rescued and carried to shelter by an Indian trapper, Scarface. He slowly recovers from the shock of his terrible fall and finally feels well enough to return to the village. On the way he and Scarface visit the spot where he landed to recover his camera and there they find the broken staff which plainly shows the mark of the bullet. They climb to the top of the gorge and find the tracks of the guide and trail him toward his cabin. Nell and Drake have reached the forest near the guide's cabin on their way to her home and Drake proposes marriage to her and asks her to elope with him to Canada. She is on the point of consenting when she thinks of Ned. She repulses Drake and starts for home. In front of the cabin of the guide, Drake feigns a sprained ankle and lures her into the cabin and bribes the guide to decamp. Drake, once they are alone, throws off all restraint and attacks her. Ned and Scarface see the guide and as they approach he runs, followed by Scarface. Ned watches. Suddenly Ned hears Nell scream, and rushing to the cabin, grapples with Drake and in the struggle is knocked out. Drake escapes, leaving Nell behind. Ned and Nell make up and start back to town. Drake in escaping has joined the guide and together they arrive at the hotel in the dog sledge. Drake tells Romaine of the position he is in, and getting money from Romaine, Drake and the guide make a dash for Canada. Romaine, feeling that the jig is up, sneaks from the hotel to make his way to New York. Ned and Nell arrive in town and relate their adventures. Their friends go after Drake and Romaine. They roll Romaine in the snow. Drake and the guide are on their way. In the early hours of the next morning wolves follow Drake and the guide and they are lost. Ned calls on Nell for her answer and is blessed by the father, Gregg.
- Frank Shields and some miners are working a placer mine. Frank writes a letter asking his brother Bob to come north; as Bob sets off he encounters Bart Murray, a bully, and a fight ensues. Bob is killed by one of Bart's blows. The news is heartrending to Frank. He arrives at the roadhouse and the first one he encounters is the man he is looking for. Not knowing his man, he allows him to get away from him but is informed by Kate Shepard and her father of Bart's identity. Bart meets a messenger and asks him for a lift. The messenger allows him to take a position on the sled behind him. Frank meets Kate and together they come to the top of the hill. Frank sees in the distance Bart getting on the sled and the killing of the messenger. Bart makes away with the money package. Frank tells Kate to return to camp and warns the men; in the meantime he will take the trail of the murderer. Frank wounds Bart, causing him to drop his gun. He draws his sled alongside of Bart's and then ensues a battle. Frank is the victor and causes Bart to kill himself by his own weapon. Frank secures the stolen money and sinks on the sled exhausted. He is later picked up by the miners, who took the trail after being notified by Kate. He is carried in the house and placed in a bunk, and under Kate's care he finally recovers from his injury and is rewarded by winning Kate for his wife.
- Charlton Trevelyan, an English society man, declares his love for Helen Mason, a calculating girl of his set. She rejects him and accepts the Hon. Travers Langdon, a member of the Canadian parliament. In a newspaper appears a story to the effect that Patricia Sutherland, a Canadian girl, has been left a fortune on condition that she marry Trevelyan. Trevelyan, embittered by Helen's treatment, determines to marry the heiress and leaves for Canada. He arrives at the home of Archbishop Hillaire du Bertrand. Patricia's uncle. The archbishop procures him a position on the Royal Northwest mounted police. He wins recognition by closing Pete's gambling place. Pete plans to wreck a train in his territory so that Trevelyan will be disgraced. The attempt is foiled by Gloria Templeton, secret agent and authority on Indian affairs, who is known to the Indians as The Lady of the Snows, Later, Helen learning of the strange will and Trevelyan's intention to marry the heiress, breaks with her husband and comes to him. In the wilderness, close to the hut of the Lady of the Snows, he refuses her love. He loves Gloria Templeton. Both he and Helen are lost in a blizzard and get shelter in Miss Templeton's cabin. Helen, learning of Trevelyan's love for this woman, maliciously asks him about his approaching marriage to Patricia Sutherland. Gloria shows her disgust for him. Trevelyan writes to Gloria that he will refuse to marry Miss Sutherland. Helen goes to the archbishop to tell him that Trevelyan is in love with a woman other than his niece. The prelate sends for Miss Sutherland. When she comes down, Helen sees Gloria Templeton. Trevelyan, coming to the house at the archbishop's invitation, learns that Gloria Templeton is Patricia Sutherland. She creeps into his arms.
- Two young trappers and miners, Sam Benson and Ralph Martin, fall in love with the same girl, Ruth Daniel. Ruth accepts Ralph, which causes a quarrel between the partners which Ruth eventually patches up, and they continue their partnership. After the quarrel has been patched up, they leave on a hunting expedition with their dog teams. They become separated during a blizzard and Sam is killed by a party of bandits that infest the region. The miners don't believe Ralph's story of bandits killing Sam, and they accuse Ralph of his death, witnesses swearing that they heard the quarrel between the two. Ruth, however, is a staunch believer in her lover's innocence, and at pistol-point holds back a crowd of miners who have come to take Ralph, until he makes his escape. Ruth, slightly injured, is assisted to her home by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police who has been sent in search of the fugitive; he learns from her that the man he is hunting is her lover. Ralph, having escaped to the hills, starts in his search for the bandits in order to vindicate himself. He meets them and in a running battle across snow-covered mountains, he is driven back to the town and seeks shelter in the home of his sweetheart. A posse of citizens hearing the firing, rush out and upon discovering that a gang of bandits are in town, give battle and drive them out, leaving their dead and wounded in the street. Among the wounded is one who confesses that his hand killed Sam, thus vindicating Ralph and making two young people happy.