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Driftin' Thru Synopsis
Drifting through the Southwest with "Kentuck," his donkey companion, Daniel Brown stops in a town to get bullets to put down the wounded animal. Stopping in a gambling parlor, he is unjustly accused of murdering the proprietor, "Bull" Dunn. Dan escapes from the sheriff, steals a horse, jumps from the steed onto a train, and is hidden by a girl in her Pullman compartment. He later takes refuge with a prospector and learns that the girl who so generously helped him on the train owns a nearby ranch, which, unknown to her, holds rich gold deposits. Joe Walters, the ranch foreman, is plotting with Stella Dunn, the widow of the murdered gambler, to buy the girl's ranch for a pittance. With the help of the old prospector, Dan prevents the sale; and, when he is about to be arrested by the sheriff, the widow Dunn confesses to having murdered her husband.
The Far Cry Synopsis
Dick Clayton and Claire Marsh fall in love in Paris, and their respective parents come to the Continent to break up the match. Mrs. Clayton is so insulting in her determination to save Dick from Claire that Claire decides to teach her a lesson: she lures Dick into proposing in the hearing of Mrs. Clayton and then turns him down. Dick goes to Venice to paint and forget; Claire quickly follows him, and they make up. Dick becomes jealous of one of Claire's admirers, they quarrel again, and Claire returns to Paris. Dick soon follows and saves her from a fire. They make plans to be married.
"Driftin' Thru" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "The Far Cry" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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