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Butterflies in the Rain Synopsis

Tina Carteret, the scion of an aristocratic English family, believes in the new freedom for women and attaches herself to a group of pseudo-bohemians. While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries, a wealthy commoner resented by the Carterets, she is retrieved from a fall by John but blames him for the accident. The following day, she invites him to dinner, pretending repentance, but instead takes pleasure in ridiculing his old-fashioned dignity. Later, he refuses to take her to a disreputable nightclub, thus saving her from a raid, and her condescension turns to love. They are married, with the condition that Tina is to have absolute liberty. While on a holiday in Spain with her bohemian friends, Tina is threatened with blackmail. John is on the brink of financial ruin, but nevertheless shields his wife's reputation. At the suggestion of John's friend, Lord Purdon, the plotters are brought together and identified as swindlers. Tina proves her innocence, and John is reconciled to her.

The Reclamation Synopsis

In the parched West, Louise MacLeod works as a secretary for Robert Powell, a lawyer defending businessman John Phelan, whom ranchers accuse of monopolizing water rights. Gordon, Louise's father, is one of the ranchers, and so Louise keeps him informed of Robert's strategy, with the result that the ranchers win their case. John, however, remains determined to control the area's water, and so he hires an engineer to dynamite a river in order to divert it from the ranchers and onto his own land. Robert then realizes the unscrupulousness of his former client, and defuses the engineer's bomb. Afterward, with the ranchers victorious, Robert concentrates less on water rights and more on Louise, with whom he soon begins a romance.