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High Gear Synopsis

It starts off with the hero driving a car so slowly that he gets a summons for blocking traffic and a tortoise outspeeds. But the finish, goes to the other extreme. Bobby accidentally finds himself in a racing car that gets out of control, is then shanghaied into a road race, finally finds himself in a "wild" aeroplane, and by means of a parachute gets his "dead" auto over the finish line and wins the prize and the girl.

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.