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Broadway Billy Synopsis
After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of Billy's next opponent, tries to weaken Brooks by getting him into all kinds of parties and also by trying to break up his love for Phyllis. He employs delightful Deloari, Broadway vamp-for-hire, to aid him and Delorai does her work so well that Brooks loses the fight. He, his manager and his trainer go to the Brooks apartment where Phyllis is throwing a big party, and the angry Brooks poops on the party and throws all attendees out. Phyllis leaves him. On the night of his comeback fight, Phyllis is injured in an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where her condition is diagnosed as serious. Brooks is kept from knowing about it until just before his fight. When he is told that Phyllis is listening to the fight on the radio, Brooks quickly dispatches his opponent and heads for a reconciliation with Phyllis.
The Key to Power Synopsis
Bruce Wendell, the son of West Virginia coal mine owner James Wendell, graduates from West Point and prepares to lead a fighting unit to the front during World War I. As his father lies dying, however, he convinces Bruce to remain at home and guard the mine. Bruce's fiancée Ann Blair assumes that he is a coward and breaks off their engagement, but her brother Bobbie remains Bruce's loyal friend. Meyer, a German agent, persuades railroad president Parrish to refuse to transport Wendell's coal, but when Bruce adamantly refuses to close the mine, the spy's men decide to blow it up. While Ann is being abducted by Meyer, Bobbie is buried in an explosion at the mine. Bruce rescues Bobbie and then sends a plea to Lieutenant Parrish to rescue Ann. Meyer and his gang are captured and Ann renews her vow of love to Bruce.
"Broadway Billy" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "The Key to Power" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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