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Red Hot Rivals Synopsis
Lee is the village fireman, whose checkers come before the town fire. However the man whose place is burning figures if Lee doesn't come to his fire he will take his wheeled restaurant to the fire chief. And he does. Lee's firemen are the finest the county can boast of - the two of them. When it comes to finding the hydrant they can't do it - just because some careless automobilist placed an ash can over it. The village belle is wooed by Lee and the town sheriff, but Lee seems to be holding the winning hand. He invites Bartine to have dinner with him on the back part of the engine, to which a coffee urn and a cake oven is attached. A roaring fire causes Lee and his faithful followers to go to the rescue, but an untimely explosion brings the house down - in the words of the actor - and Lee's lone rival and himself bring themselves from under the debris.
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.
"Red Hot Rivals" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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