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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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two cowboys drift into town. Both are broke, and one of them jokingly suggests they rob the local express office. A citizen overhears them, and when the office is robbed soon afterwards, the cowboys are blamed for it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A Border Patrol agent enlists the help of two cowboys in trying to solve a string of robberies.
- 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.
- When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the young girl Isobel taken and raised thinking Dugan is her father. Fifteen years later the Colonel's son Jack arrives looking for Dugan whom he learned killed his father. As he hunts for Dugan he meets and falls in love with Isobel only to then learn Dugan is her father.
- 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.
- Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.
- Victor Lanning is employed by eastern capitalist Richard Stanton to buy the Shasta Lumber Co. He conspires with Pete Carson to set forest fires so that he can purchase the company at a lower price and keep the remaining cash for himself. While investigating the fires that killed his cattle, Billy Fargo rescues Richard and his daughter, Mildred, from a train wreck. Victor becomes jealous of Mildred's attention to Billy, and hires a gang to kidnap her. Following Mildred's disappearance, Billy is informed of the plot by Victor's lover, a Native American girl named Red Feather. Billy rushes to Mildred's defense during a raging storm and defeats the kidnappers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Esteban, a white boy, is reared by an Indian squaw, whom he believes to be his mother and from whom Beaugard steals the papers documenting Esteban's birth and his right to inherit a ranch. When he is grown, Esteban falls in love with Patricia Benton, Beaugard "exposes" Esteban to Patricia, and the villain taunts the lad that he has no right to a white woman. After a series of adventures in which Esteban recovers Patricia from Beaugard's grasp, the couple happily learn the truth from Esteban's "mother."
- 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.
- Buffalo Bill performs kindnesses for a native American and a runaway slave, and plans to build a new town along a planned train route.
- A suicide's ex-fiancée shoots the vamp responsible and enters a convent.
- 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.
- Mary is called the "Midnight Flower" because each evening at midnight she does a wild dance atop a gaming table in a local gambling den. A young Spaniard in love with Mary, who would rescue her, stages a holdup at the most profitable table and passes the money on to her. In attempting to escape, she is caught, arrested, and jailed. While she is in prison, she meets a young evangelist who runs a mission in the slums. They fall in love, and on her release Mary joins him in the missionary work. This sets the local tongues wagging and complicates the affair until it is revealed that Mary is the daughter of a wealthy family--lost to a kidnapper when she was an infant.
- A band of settlers on the Oregon Trail is attacked by outlaws, who steal their horses. The horses are returned and the outlaws chased off by three cowboys who just happen to pass by. Years later, the three cowboys again save the settlers when they are threatened by some rebellious farm-workers.
- Young cowboy Cyclone Jones falls for pretty Sylvia Billings, who with her sheep-rancher father has just come to town. However, his pursuit of Sylvia runs into some roadblocks, mainly the hostility of the local cattle ranchers to "sheepmen" like her father, whose sheep they believe ravage the range and leave it unusable for their cattle to graze on and who are determined to drive the new arrivals out of town.
- 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.
- Blake, the crooked foreman of a cattle ranch, murders a sheep rancher. Then after framing ranch hand Jack for the murder, he urges the ranch hands to hang him. But Jack's dog Wolfheart finds evidence implicating Blake in the murder. The ranch owner then stops the hanging and Jack and Wolfheart head out after Blake.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A young Russian countess is told that she must marry an American within a certain period of time in order to inherit a substantial fortune. At the same time, a young American man is informed that he will come into a large sum of money if he reaches a certain bank by a given date. The two must overcome a variety of obstacles that stand in the way of their getting the money.