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The Fighting Grin Synopsis
Billy Kennedy has bet his father, Otis Kennedy, $10,000 that he will marry his girlfriend, Margie Meredith, within the next week, even though both fathers are adamantly opposed to the union. After their first rendezvous is interrupted by the feuding fathers, the couple decide to take a train West and marry secretly on a ranch near Silverspur, Arizona. The parents discover the scheme and lock Billy into a freight car, where he dons the attire of a tramp. After being forced to exchange his clothing with a bandit, Billy finds that Margie has been forcibly married to her father's choice, milksop Harold De Vanderveer. Since the "minister" who performed the ceremony is actually the clothes-robbing bandit, however, Billy and Margie steal away to the real minister to be married. Billy wins his bet, while the two fathers finally resolve their differences.
The Gilded Spider Synopsis
An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond). Louise Lovely plays two parts: Giovanni's wife Leonita, who comes to grief when Cyrus falls in love with her; and Giovanni's daughter Elisa, whose beauty brings a horrific resolution to the two families' woes.
"The Fighting Grin" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "The Gilded Spider" offers its own unique cult appeal.
Suggested Watch:
The Fighting Grin