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Fighting Mad Synopsis
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
The Lonesome Chap Synopsis
Stuart Kirkward, a wealthy miner, has built a magnificent house in preparation of his marriage to Peggy Carter, who elopes on the eve of her wedding with George Rothwell, a mining promoter, who is already married. At the station they meet Rothwell's wife, who tells Peggy the truth about him. Peggy in endeavoring to escape from the unpleasant scene rides away on her horse, only to be followed by Rothwell. Both meet with an accident, are hurled to their doom over a steep cliff. Just before this, Stuart had assumed the guardianship of a little daughter of a friend of his, and in connection with the accident he finds himself with the girl on his hands. He sends her away to boarding school, where she meets the son of George Rothwell, the man who had eloped with Stuart's intended bride. When the girl, whose name is Renee, comes back from school to her guardian, he finds that she has grown to be a full-fledged lady, and begins to feel more than a fatherly affection for her. Some time later, at a house party, Stuart is led to believe that she loves the son of George Rothwell, and, although bearing in mind that he is the son of the man who was his bitterest enemy, he decides to give the boy a chance. It is here that he makes the great discovery that, instead of Rothwell, Jr., it is he whom Renee loves. All the past is forgotten and they turn their thoughts to the future.
"Fighting Mad" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "The Lonesome Chap" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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Fighting Mad