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The Fighting Ranger Synopsis

Fifteen years before the story opens, John Marshall, a prosperous cattle raiser, had shot a man. He knows the act justifiable, but because of the political influence of his victim he felt that his only recourse is to flee. Taking his little daughter he hides himself in a fastness of the mountains that constitute part of his great ranch. The only man he trusts in the outside world is "Topaz" Taggart, a political boss and all-around tricky citizen, who really is trying to get Marshall's ranch because of knowledge that on it is buried a fabulous treasure guarded by an aged Yaqui, last of his tribe. "Bud" Hughes, one-time aviator now a tramp, has attached himself to Marshall's hiding place personnel which included also, Miguel, a faithful Mexican. Into the hiding place there drops one day Terrence O'Rourke, a forest ranger with a double mission, who because of a wound, had lost control of his aeroplane. Marshall's daughter, Mary, grown to young womanhood nurses the young man back to health and from then on he becomes her father's and her protector in a long series of disheartening experiences at the hands of Taggart and his tools.

The Great Shadow Synopsis

Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the anarchistic propaganda being put forth by Klimoff, the leader of a Bolshevik gang whose goal is to disrupt the country with strikes and anarchy. Despite McDonald's efforts, a strike is called, resulting in chaos. McDonald's child is knocked down by runaway horses abandoned by their striking driver, and dies. Mob scenes take place in America, as well as in Russia. Eventually, the unrest is quelled with an armistice called between Capital and Labor for a year, during which time wages are to be increased to reflect the cost of living, and leaders are to work out a common plan for their mutual advantage. The strikers now realize that they have been pawns of the Bolsheviks and call off the strike, agreeing to the plan.