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- María Valdez, known as the Virgin of San Blas because of her charitable acts and great beauty, falls in love with David Kent, an American who is in Spain to investigate the death of his father years earlier. María and Kent set the date for a wedding, but Ricardo Ruiz, an excellent duelist and rake who desires to marry María to recoup his fortunes, informs the girl that her father was killed by Kent's father in the distant past. María then decides to avenge the family honor and immediately enters into a companionate marriage with Ricardo. Kent goes to María seeking an explanation for her sudden change of heart, and Ricardo finds them together. He challenges the American to a duel, instructing his valet to shoot Kent if he seems to be gaining the advantage. But in the course of the duel, Kent extinguishes the candles, and the valet inadvertently kills Ricardo. María and Kent are reconciled and make plans to be married.
- When a stranger named Smith arrives at Don Luis Alvarado's Southern California ranch looking for work, he is hired as a hand. Smith and the Don's beautiful daughter, Senorita Carmelita, become attracted to each other until one night, when Carmelita surprises Smith as he and a gang of thieves are stealing her family's jewels. Smith is arrested, along with the thieves, but his true identity is established in court when he reveals that he is Michael Cochrane, a U.S. marshal who infiltrated the gang of thieves to obtain a conviction. He brings the gang to justice and marries Carmelita.
- Summoned to a cabin in the southern woods, Dr. Ross Wayne treats Branch Paxton, wounded in a feud, by amputating an arm. At the same time he warns Paxton that his daughter, Beulah, who has been mistreated, must be given rest and quiet. Paxton recovers and swears vengeance on Wayne, believing that the doctor amputated out of malice. Paxton, his son Lem, and a renegade friend named Ed Carter decide to kill Wayne when he makes a house call. Wayne escapes with Beulah, now weak and dying, to a shack in the woods. The three men follow in pursuit. Wayne tricks Lem into entering the cabin and forcibly transfers blood from him to Beulah, thus saving her life. The situation is resolved, and all ends happily.
- At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in the east and goes west to settle a dispute over oil lands owned by Rosemary's father. This man evicts the wrong party and later must return west in order to set things right, protecting the honor of a girl from the advances of the crooked foreman.
- Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers. Carol reluctantly goes to dinner, and Ronsard is felled by a shot fired by an unknown intruder. Jimmy is later proven to have been in the vicinity at the time of the crime; he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in the electric chair. At the last minute, Jimmy is granted a temporary reprieve and given a new trial. Carol seeks to sacrifice herself for Jimmy by confessing that she committed the crime, but Ronsard's butler comes forward and informs the jury that he killed Ronsard in self-defense when Ronsard attacked him.
- A wronged dance-hall girl with an illegitimate child loves a cowhand with the love of a bad woman for a good man. A gambler takes a shot at the fellow, and the dance-hall girl steps in the way, taking more than her share of lead. With her last wish, she asks the cowpoke to marry her and give her child a name. They are quickly wed, but the girl unexpectedly recovers, posing quite a problem for the cowhand, who is in love with another woman. When the dance-hall girl is later murdered, the cowhand is unjustly suspected of the crime until he proves that the gambler shot the girl out of malice. The cowhand returns to his first love and marries her, despite the interference of her sullen brothers and somewhat angry father.
- Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and sends his son, Robert Jr., to investigate. During his journey west, Robert meets Mary Hamilton, a stranded actress from a roadshow company of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Because Mary is still in costume as the character, "Little Eva," Robert mistakes her for a child and takes her with him to the ranch. He ultimately discovers the identity of the arms smugglers and, with the help of the Mexican Rurales, brings the gang to justice. Robert then realizes that Mary is not a child and wins her for his wife.
- George Benton returns home from college after having forged a check, and his older brother, Adam, sacrifices his life savings to save George from jail. George soon weds Elsie, an orphan who lives on the Benton farm; but shortly after the newlywed couple leaves the farm on their honeymoon a girl arrives on the farm and identifies herself as George's first wife. Adam rushes to the cabin where George and Elsie are staying, and the brothers fight. Adam is knocked senseless, and George, who thinks that he has killed his brother, rushes horrified from the cabin and falls over a cliff. Adam regains consciousness and rescues George. George reforms and makes good with his first wife; Adam marries Elsie.
- Chorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so she can pay back a theft her brother made from his employers. Her sweetheart, race-car driver Jimmie, learns about it and gives her a check for $2500, but the check is worthless unless he can win the Big Race that afternoon. He leads through every lap but blows a tire on the last lap and finishes fourth. It appears that Duane will soon be hugging sweet Mary, unless Jimmie can find a buyer for a race-car with a flat tire.
- A wealthy Wyomingite disowns his son, Wayne Sturgis (William Fairbanks), for marrying art student Joan Prescott (Dorothy Revier). After several years on a small farm, Joan begins to suffer from disillusion, unhappiness, and poor health. The marriage is nearly ruined by the attentions that Monte Brett (Gladden James), a neighbor, pays Joan. Wayne struggles to make good and is eventually rewarded when his father forgives him and welcomes the young couple home.
- Pretending to be an outlaw, Marshal Dan Paterson joins the Carson gang. They're holding young Alice Allison captive, but when Dan tries to help her, Alice--not knowing who he is--doesn't trust him. Dan must gain her trust before he can rescue her and help destroy the gang.
- Bob Beemis comes to New York City hoping to get his family entrenched in the high-society circuit, but only succeeds in making friends with one person in the social whirl, Archie de Rennsaler. They party with a couple of chorus girls and Bob falls in love with one of them. His uncle arrives from the West to check out his progress, finds there has been none, and closes out his bank account. What's a poor rich-boy do do? Well, he could enter his horse in a really, really Big Race.
- While "Big Boy" Merritt (William Fairbanks), a Texas Ranger, is trailing the Cocas Kid (Chet Ryan), he catches up with "Gentleman Jack" Prentriss (Jack Richardson), who is the brother of Meritt's sweetheart, (Dorothy Revier),but Merritt has to arrest him. Jack escapes and Merritt later finds him wounded and deserted by his gang members.
- After severely injuring his foreman in a fight, railroad worker Art Flanders flees to the desert, where he finds companionship with a dog named Rex, and later, with Black Beauty, a runaway horse. In their search for water, the three come upon a stream on the property of Lorraine Estes, owner of a mine claim that Jed Hawkins plans to usurp. While Art does the manual labor necessary to register the claim, Jed sends several of his men to dynamite the mine. They are thwarted by Art and Black Beauty, who also bring Jed to justice. One year later, Art and Lorraine are married with a baby, and Rex is father to a litter of puppies. Black Beauty is relegated to flirting with a hobby horse.
- While taking photographs in the forest, Billy Woodruff meets Pattie, a wild girl who lives in a cabin with her Grandpapa Toto, and their dog, Rex. Although Billy and Pattie are strongly attracted to each other, she is also desired by surly mountaineer Lige Blew, whom she has repeatedly refused. Lige frames Grandpapa Toto for murder, leaving Pattie in his power. Rex alerts Billy, and he rescues Pattie from Lige's advances. Grandpapa Toto is released from jail and Pattie is betrothed to Billy.
- Spanish Don Guzman de Ruis y Montejo, living quietly in his Madrid hacienda, determines upon a rich marriage for his daughter, Ynez, rather than letting her be courted by Rodrigo, a Gypsy chieftain. Papa takes his daughter to the Riviera, where Ismid Matrouli, a wealthy Levantine of mongrel origin, asks Ynez's father for her hand. However, at a garden party, Ynez meets an American military attache named Captain Grant Lee Brooke, and the two are love-struck at first sight, especially after he rescues her during a swim in the Mediterranean. Matrouli sics a professional swordsman on the captain, but the American socks him in the jaw. The inevitable duel between Brooke and Matrouili follows, but Roderigo takes a pot shot at the captain and hits the Levantine instead. Roderigo then kidnaps Ynez and carries her away to a mountain stronghold, but the captain follows and rescues her. Her father gives the couple his consent to marry.
- Bruce Taylor arrives in the mountain town of Caliente with his dog (Rex), horse (Blackie), and an abandoned baby found by Rex in an automobile in the desert. The town has no foundling home, and Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself. Molly Markham offers to help and arouses the jealousy of her "suitor," Obediah Dillwater, who has Molly's grandfather under financial obligation. Obediah conspires to have Bruce arrested for kidnapping the baby, but Bruce escapes from jail with the aid of Rex and Blackie. He brings back the sheriff to prove his innocence and rescues Molly from a forced marriage to Obediah. Molly, Bruce, the baby, and Blackie and Rex, the "pals," all look forward to a happy life together.
- Yasmiri, the daughter of a chieftain of Persian hillsmen, falls in love with Tommy Farrell, an English officer stationed at the Khyber Pass. Yasmiri's family deplores her infatuation and seeks revenge against the British when Tommy dishonors her. They capture Irene, the governor's daughter whom Tommy loves, and plan to sacrifice her. "The White Panther," Bruce Wainright--actually another British officer and champion of victims of the desert bandits--rescues Irene and holds the angry natives at bay until the cavalry arrives. Tommy meets his death in a feud, and Irene and Wainright marry.
- Harvey, a cub reporter for the Morning Times, determines to recover the stolen Sacred Jewel of Buddha and scoop his competitors. He eventually discovers that the jewel is being held by a Chinese criminal tong--which is also holding hostage a beautiful young girl they have kidnapped as a hostage for the return of the jewel. Harvey sets out to take back both the jewel and the girl and get out of Chinatown alive.
- Richard Talmadge, a book salesman, not only sells James Arlington, a capitalist, a volume of his firm's latest novel, but also talks himself into a position as private secretary to the millionaire. He falls in love with his daughter, whose hand is sought by Jose Borquez. The latter is scheming with a number of financiers to gain control of a corporation headed by Arlington. He plans a cruise and invites Arlington and his daughter to go along as his guests. At a ball prior to the departure of the party, Dick overhears a conspiracy in which Borquez plays a leading part. It is planned to keep Arlington away from New York so that the 'bulls' can wash him out financially. Richard is kidnapped, but after a series of adventures he not only overtakes the party but subjects Borquez to a severe punishment and wins the hand of Miss Arlington.
- Bruce Randall is injured after a fight with Mortimer, who has attempted to rob his home, and is reported dead by the police. They bury a man they believe to be Bruce, while Bruce wanders about, unable to recall his past. Two crook lawyers find him, hire him to impersonate Bruce so as to get some pearls in the Randall mansion, and Mrs. Randall believes he is really her husband. He regains his memory in time to defeat the crooks and save his wife's happiness.
- Jimmy Martin, king of the motorcycle speedsters, visits the Kingdom of Mandavia for a race. There he is persuaded to impersonate the king by a traitor, Rodolph D'Henri, who intends to annex part of Mandavia for neighboring Selmarnia. The real king is in jail. D'Henri's plot is successful until Martin falls in love with Princess Margaret of Alvernia. Then he discloses his true identity, releases the real king, exposes the traitor, earns knighthood, and marries Margaret.
- Carleton goes off to the mountains after failing to win Mary, who fancies herself in love with another whom she marries. Carleton and some newly-found friends establish a health resort to make money and Mary, a widow, after a time brings her small son there to regain his strength. Carleton's enemies plan to get hold of the property and try to steal his horse before the race, but Carleton is too clever for them and succeeds in saving the race, the property and winning Mary.
- Nester Bill Holt is beset from all sides, but he manages to maintain his hold on his small homestead. Meanwhile, he helps the sheriff round up a gang of rustlers. Bill has his final triumph when he informs his neighbor and chief opponent, Judd Acker, that he has been married to Acker's daughter, Alice, for a year.
- A young man who jerks sodas in a small-town ice cream parlor is at heart a coward. He is mistaken for Cyclone Carter, a famous pug, and forced into a fight. A fortuitous blow on the head changes him into a fighting demon, and he wins the admiration of the townspeople and the love of his girl.
- Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl. When Bob Crandall comes from the city and the girl falls in love with him, the squire approves of the marriage. The ceremony is interrupted, however, by a strange woman who describes the bridegroom as the father of the baby in her arms. The girl goes home broken-hearted, and the townspeople rise against Bob, but the woman finally exonerates him and reveals the squire's nefarious scheme.
- Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her. Influenced by the atmosphere of revelry and gin on the high seas, they undergo a mock marriage ceremony performed by the ship's captain. Gloria is met at the dock by a suitor whom she still plans to marry, but Hale, insisting that he and Gloria are legitimately married, "kidnaps" her. He takes her to a mountain lodge, and her former fiancé hires a thug to kill him. The thug throws Hale into a raging river, from which he is rescued by an Indian guide. The thug is later killed when the car in which he is abducting Gloria crashes near the river. Hale and Gloria are reunited and decide to remain together, having learned to love each other.
- A society girl goes west to take over the management of her ranch, which has been going to ruin. She hires a cowhand as her foreman, but when the postmaster is killed, the foreman is accused of the murder on circumstantial evidence. A mob sets out to lynch the foreman, and he heads for the hills. The killer then kidnaps the girl and takes her to the camp of his outlaw gang. The foreman comes upon the camp in his travels and takes on the entire gang. As he is about to be killed, men from the ranch show up and subdue the outlaws. The killer is brought to justice, and the foreman and the girl realize their love for each other.
- Dick Jordan, an athletic westerner in search of adventure, is approached by Roger Gale and his business associates who seek to purchase the young man's ranch. The westerner seeks a bigger price and is invited to come East. Gale plans to give Dick such a wild time that he will consent to do anything, but here his plans miscarry, for the westerner falls in love with Sylvia Grant, whose services are recruited to play a practical joke on the visitor. The joke, however, is reversed, with Dick beating up the joke-smiths and ultimately making up his mind to keep his ranch on which to settle with his new wife.
- 'Lucky Dan' is a reckless, carefree, daring young cowboy in love with a pretty lass. The latter returns that 'on-to-the-altar' admiration, but her daddy is one of those gentlemen with Missourian leanings, namely, he must be shown. And at the outset daddy doesn't think much of Dan as a business man. But then inheritances always do come in handy and in this particular instance, an unexpected inheritance not only made popper see things different, but incidentally earned a wife for our hero--thus leaving no doubt that between the two the much-welcomed inheritance would be well taken care of. And so it ends.
- In this re-edited, re-titled version of 'Conversion of Frosty Blake, The (1915)', some character names are changed but the story, of a New England pastor who goes out west for his health and encounters a gun-toting dance-hall owner and a beautiful dancer, remains fairly intact.
- Repeated raids on a southwestern town by a gang that wishes to appropriate a nearby mine coincide with the arrival of two strangers. James Brown, an easterner, is afraid of his own shadow, but the townspeople believe he is a marshal sent to restore law and order. While looking for an opportunity to escape, James learns that the other visitor, Bill Williams, is the real marshal, and an attempt on James's life spurs him to action. The mine is saved, and the gang leader is brought to justice.
- State political power James Merritt gives his wayward son, Bob, a 13th chance to make good by defeating Arnold Norton in the coming Carterville mayoral election. Bob tries his mightiest until he meets Norton's daughter, Barbara, and learns of the underhanded efforts being made against Norton by Mark Durkham, the elder Merritt's political henchman. Switching to the other side, Bob successfully works for Norton's victory and Barbara's favor--thereby getting involved in a prizefight and other exciting events.
- Dick Underwood's desire to marry Dorothy Travers receives strong opposition from her father, and the couple decides to elope. Their escape is thwarted by an accident, however, and John Travers takes his daughter home, where she is courted by crooked stock promoter Jack Allen. Dick and Dorothy's second attempt to elope is foiled by Allen, and Dick lands in jail. He escapes, and a fight with Allen leaves Dick as sole contender for Dorothy. Allen is caught for misusing the mails, and Dick receives John Travers' blessing. The hero's athletic stunts are featured.
- Along with his horse Boomerang, British captain William Ballard travels in South Africa to meet a native king, Karin, in the hope of arranging a treaty with him on behalf of the British government. Along the way, William meets his Scottish friend, Sandy McGregor, and Fritz van Roon, an intractable Dutch Boer who refuses to acknowledge British rule and seeks to undermine it. William also meets Katryn, a Dutch farmer's niece, and she falls in love with him after he rescues her from a savage native attack on her wagon. William is wounded during the melee and Katryn is mistakenly told that he has died. Although Katryn's uncle considers van Roon a coward, the Boer kidnaps her. William soon learns of van Roon's actions and, accompanied by a friendly native king, finds Katryn and rescues her. Van Roon is left to the mercy of the vicious veldt beasts.
- Dick Talmadge leads a double life: normally he is the indolent son of Parker Talmadge, the controlling power in the flour market, but sometimes he masquerades as "The Unknown," a masked champion of the people and leader of the fight against high prices. Parker Talmadge and sugar baron J. Malcolm Sweet agree that Dick should marry J. Malcolm's daughter, Sylvia Sweet, but Sylvia disapproves of Dick's worthlessness and considers The Unknown the man of her dreams. A raid on the profiteers' stored goods causes a panic among financiers, who unsuccessfully set detectives on The Unknown's trail, then stage a grand reception as a trap for their populist enemy. The plot fails, but Dick is unmasked in a fight. Sylvia changes her mind about the young man, and all ends happily.
- Dan Merrill is discharged from the fire department where he has distinguished himself because he is physically unable to stay in a smoking room. His enemies tell his girl, Mary Fenton, that he is a coward. But he proves his efficiency by trailing a gang of crooks who have been responsible for robberies in which they covered their tracks by starting fires. Once more a hero, he squares himself with the company and with the girl.