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The Bachelor Daddy Synopsis
After his mining partner Joe Pelton's (MacDonald) death, wealthy bachelor Richard Chester (Thomas Meighan) adopts Joe's five young children and takes them East by train. The children upset the calmness of the passengers of the Pullman car en route to New York City, and when they arrive at Richard's home they drive the servants almost crazy. Richard enrolls them all in school except for the youngest. His fiancee Ethel McVae (Maude Wayne), a frosty society woman, refuses to have anything to do with the children and breaks their engagement when she sees how Richard reacts when his stenographer Sally Lockwood (Leatrice Joy) helps him nurse the youngest child through a night's illness. The secretary wins Richard's love through the baby.
A Double-Dyed Deceiver Synopsis
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is always after dinner." The Llano Kid, a Texas bad man, flees there from justice. The consul persuades him to play the long-lost son of a Castilian family, and tattoos a coat of arms on the back of the Kid's hand to make the deception complete. The Kid is taken into the household, trusted and loved by the gladdened mother. For the first time he has a home. The romance develops. And when the time comes to rob and flee he has too much manhood to break the loving mother's heart. The surprise comes when it is revealed that the man the Kid killed in Texas was the real son.
"A Double-Dyed Deceiver" is currently leading in ratings, making it a stronger choice for newcomers to the genre.
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