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The Footlight Ranger Synopsis
Cowboy Bill Moreland meets and falls in love with Janet Ainslee, a stranded actress. He sells his prize dogs to pay her way back to New York City and eventually follows her. Later, Bill rescues Janet from a producer who is willing to advance her career in exchange for her virtue. Bill and Janet marry and return west.
Love Is Love Synopsis
Weak willed Gerry Sands, who wants to become an editor, is forced by his employer, locksmith Nick Barket, to crack safes, until, during a robbery, he reads some words from a dropped copy of Hamlet , and stops. Overjoyed, his sweetheart Polly Ann Kerry, gets him work at the hotel where she works, but Red Devlin, the brains behind the burglaries, frames Gerry for theft. Devlin bails him out, hoping he will return to safe-cracking, but Gerry leaves town and becomes a typesetter for a Western newspaper. After Polly exposes the crooks, she becomes ill from grief at not hearing from Gerry. Gerry returns and, risking arrest, goes to the police station to locate Polly. The police captain, who loves Polly, but realizes that she loves Gerry, gives him twenty-four hours probation to find and marry her. After he finds her, she thinks that he wants to marry her to escape jail, but the police captain vouches for Gerry's integrity, and they marry.
"The Footlight Ranger" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Love Is Love" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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The Footlight Ranger