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Love's Battle Synopsis

Smiling Joe Wiley, a young hobo, is thrown off a train in a Western town, where he wins the admiration of the local cowboys by pulling a fake holdup in a restaurant. A former cowboy himself, Joe finds romance when he rescues a young woman named Kate from a runaway horse; however, he makes an enemy of an unsavory character who later manages to frame him for a robbery and murder. Joe is sentenced to death, and Kate goes to the governor to beg for Joe's pardon, arguing the unfairness of using circumstantial evidence in a trial. When the governor resists Kate's entreaties, she tears her clothes and screams for help, convincing the governor's wife and the police that the governor attacked her. Kate confesses to the deception, and the governor, now persuaded of the inadequacy of circumstantial evidence, receives word that the real killer has confessed to the crime on his deathbed. Joe is saved from the gallows in the nick of time.

The Great Shadow Synopsis

Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the anarchistic propaganda being put forth by Klimoff, the leader of a Bolshevik gang whose goal is to disrupt the country with strikes and anarchy. Despite McDonald's efforts, a strike is called, resulting in chaos. McDonald's child is knocked down by runaway horses abandoned by their striking driver, and dies. Mob scenes take place in America, as well as in Russia. Eventually, the unrest is quelled with an armistice called between Capital and Labor for a year, during which time wages are to be increased to reflect the cost of living, and leaders are to work out a common plan for their mutual advantage. The strikers now realize that they have been pawns of the Bolsheviks and call off the strike, agreeing to the plan.