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Dead Easy Synopsis

A painter in distress, through want of food, accepts $50 from two quack dealers in bodies. He leaps from a high bridge into a river to commit suicide but, to the surprise of the freakish merchants, his body rebounds from the surface of the water back onto the bridge and he rushes to satisfy his hunger. The dealers pursue him and command him to commit suicide by 6:00 so that his body will be turned over to them. Meanwhile, the artist receives a telegram announcing the death of his uncle and the inheritance of several thousand dollars. To comply with his negotiations with the quack dealers, he gives them his uncle's body.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.