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Billy Jim Synopsis

Billy Jim, a wealthy westerner posing as a happy-go-lucky cowboy, gets into a dispute with a man aboard a train. A girl berates him for his actions, and he loses his heart to her; later, while drunk, he finds her bound to a chair in a cabin and after releasing her learns that she is traveling with her father to a resort. Billy Jim holds up a card game, hires a car with the money taken, and arrives at the resort ahead of her. At her father's mining camp Billy Jim succeeds in routing claim jumpers and saving the property. When the sheriff arrives to arrest him for holding up the card game, it is revealed that he is a wealthy cattle owner. Billy Jim departs, but the girl follows to return his gun, and all ends happily.

The Curse of Iku Synopsis

American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.