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The Cowboy and the Countess Synopsis

While touring the American West, Countess Justina of Belgravia is involved in an automobile accident. Jerry Whipple, a devil of the range, comes to her aid, and the two become friends. Justina returns to her kingdom and reluctantly prepares for her state marriage to Duke de Milos; Jerry joins a Wild West show and, while on tour, comes to Belgravia. Jerry learns that the duke is secretly the leader of a gang of thieves and abducts Justina to save her from the duke's evil. Jerry then defeats the duke and his men and returns to the palace with Justina, where they are wed in a formal ceremony.

Vive la France! Synopsis

Upon hearing that her parents have been killed in the war, actress Genevieve Bouchette returns to her native village of Deschon, France, and engages in Red Cross work. The Germans capture the town, and when Genevieve refuses to submit to the amorous demands of one of the soldiers, he orders her branded with the "cross of shame." Her sweetheart, Jean Picard, now a volunteer in the French army, is seriously wounded while attempting to deliver important orders to Col. Bouchier, and Genevieve saves his life by telling his pursuers that he is dead. After delivering the papers herself, Genevieve visits her lover in the hospital, but he fails to recognize her, having lost his memory through shell shock. When Jean sees the cross of shame of Genevieve's breast, however, his memory returns, and the two pledge their troth.