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Hell-Roarin' Reform Synopsis
Good-hearted cowboy Tim stirs up the townspeople to donate to the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund, but on his way to the nearest post office, a gang robs him of the collected money. After escaping, he trails them and rescues Doris Jenkins from a runaway stagecoach after the gang robs her. When Tim meets a minister whom the gang had ejected from Tarantula, where Doris lives, Tim goes there as a new preacher to clean up the town. Baxter, the sheriff and gang leader, has his men pull the flimsy church down during Tim's first embarrassed attempt at sermonizing. Tim gets even by riding upstairs to the balcony of a building, jumping to the roof of Baxter's saloon, and crashing to the floor. After Tim is captured and about to be hanged, he escapes and saves Doris, whom Baxter had abducted. He makes Baxter witness their marriage and forces him to write a check for a new church.
The Victoria Cross Synopsis
Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in India--breaks out in 1857. He receives the prestigious Victoria Cross--the highest decoration that can be awarded to a British soldier--for his actions in battle. However, after a night of drunken debauchery, he is stripped of the honor and disgraced in front of his love, Joan Strathallen, the daughter of his commanding officer. When Indian rebel leader Azimoolah instigates an uprising by the natives and has Joan kidnapped, Seton sets out to redeem his honor and save the woman he loves.
"The Victoria Cross" is currently leading in ratings, making it a stronger choice for newcomers to the genre.
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Hell-Roarin' Reform