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More Deadly Than the Male Synopsis

Actress-manager Helen O'Hara flirts with wealthy adventurous clubman Richard Carlin, about to leave for Zululand, who says that pursuing African women, guarded by their large, jealous males, is more thrilling than courting "civilized" women. After Helen introduces Richard to her husband Terry, she appeals to Richard's sense of daring and invites him to a mountain camp, where she initiates an embrace, which Terry interrupts. A subsequent duel leaves Terry badly wounded. As Helen tells Richard that she met him earlier in college and now loves him, a dam gives way, and they work together to replace its logs so that a hospital downstream housing crippled children will not be harmed. Richard then kidnaps Helen and takes her aboard a yacht. After harbor police board the yacht, Richard leaps into the water and strikes his head on a police patrol boat pursuing them. Richard awakens to find that Terry, unharmed, is really Helen's brother, and that she has succeeded in making him fall in love with her, even though she is "civilized."

The Moment Before Synopsis

One moment before she dies, the aged, philanthropic, and universally respected Duchess of Maldon sees her life flash before her. As Madge, a young gypsy woman, two men fight for her, after which the winner, John, forces her to marry him. Then Madge deserts John and begins a romance in England with Harold, the youngest son of the Duke of Maldon. Soon, however, Harold fights with his older brother, who has criticized the affair with a married woman, and, believing that he has killed his brother, Harold leaves Madge behind and smuggles himself out of the country. Years later, Harold, who has found out that his brother did not die, meets Madge once again, and, determined not to let him leave her a second time, Madge kills John so that she and Harold can marry. Successfully covering up past scandals, Madge and Harold begin a life so sedate and distinguished that they quickly become England's model couple.