Masterpiece Selection that Capture the Essence of The Love Call: Cu...

Dir: Louis Chaudet

Rex Carson, son of cattleman Jim Carson and in love with Molly Moran, the daughter of a sheepman, defends the rights of the sheepherders to graze their herds on the free range, while his father and the other cattlemen oppose them to varying degrees, and this leads to the father disowning his son.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Society's Driftwood perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge. A few years later, Judge Grant becomes a corporation attorney for a large firm. In collusion with the owners, Grant embezzles the firm's profits, thus forcing the value of the stock down and creating favorable conditions for a takeover. Lena, on the pretext of making an investment, meets the judge, who falls in love with her. Lena uses his infatuation to discover that the judge himself stole the money. Meanwhile, Lena has fallen in love with Tison Grant, a newspaper reporter and the judge's brother, and after they are married, she informs Tison of his brother's treachery. Tison threatens to give the story to the papers, but before he can, Paul is released from jail, kills the judge, and is wounded in the scuffle. Lena takes the blame for the killing but is freed from suspicion when Paul confesses before he dies.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

Set on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1853, Captain Plum searches for the pirate who kidnapped Marion Whitley's brother.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Captain's Courage perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he meets Violet Manners who, with her invalid mother Marion, is visiting in a nearby village. Marion is haunted by memories of the past, and one day when Violet takes Dan to meet her mother, she discovers that he is the husband who deserted her years ago. The shock causes Marion's death, but before she dies, she justifies her past behavior toward Dan.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

When brilliant lawyer Harry Sevier, an alcoholic, cannot cope with the prosecution's tactics, his innocent client Paddy the Brick goes to prison. After Harry's sweetheart Echo Allen, the daughter of Judge Beverly Allen, breaks their engagement, Harry leaves to combat his problem. Meanwhile, Cameron Craig, whose interest in a distilling corporation is threatened when a suit is brought before Judge Allen, steals incriminating love letters written by the Judge years earlier. Echo boards a train to offer to marry Craig for returning the letters. Harry, on the same train, and now beardless, follows Echo to Craig's home, where a burglary occurs. After Harry, not recognized by Echo, gives her the letters, Craig is shot, and Harry, along with Paddy--now a burglar--is sent to prison. Harry escapes and finds himself nominated to run for governor on the "dry" ticket. After Echo confirms that he was innocent of shooting Craig, Harry wins the election and her love.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Common Sense perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France, and there meets a young man who has had an affair with a prominent actress. When Ruth and the man return to the US, the actress is outraged that her former boyfriend is now seeing Ruth, and sets up a scheme to frame Ruth for a robbery. However, during the trial certain facts come out that shock everyone.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

A young ranch hand who is suspected by his boss of stealing cattle leaves the ranch determined to capture the real offenders. While away he meets a girl with whom he falls in love. For a time the girl's brother is suspected, and later the cowboy is more strongly suspected than he was previously. But matters are straightened out, and the ranch hand and the girl decide to travel double.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Long Lane's Turning perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Barr Messenger escapes to Mexico after a frame-up. He is in love with Betty Brownlee, who disappears after $10,000 is stolen from the firm she works for. It is thought she took the money. In Mexico, In Mexico, Barr finds Betty working in a saloon for "Red" McGee, the chief henchman of "Bull" Keeler's (the Kingfish) Kingfisher gang. Betty's sister is also involved.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

Alice Davis and Charles Turner are arrested for petting in an automobile and marry on impulse. When Alice's mother comes to live with them, she quickly sees that she is not wanted, and she finds a job soliciting for a bus touring company. In the meantime Charles's father, having sold all his property, arrives in town to live with his son and daughter-in-law. He also finds living with his children disagreeable, leaves the house, and accidentally meets Mrs. Davis. They fall in love and decide to announce their engagement, but Charles is arrested for embezzling company funds. At first reluctant to help his son, Mr. Turner is persuaded by Mrs. Davis to give up his life's savings to save Charles, and both couples are happily reunited.

Dir: Louis Chaudet

When a heroic rescue leaves him disfigured, Jack finds work and romance at a local bank. Betrayal forces him to flee town, but experimental surgery offers an unexpected path to justice.