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The Hunted Woman Synopsis

John Aldous an author, travels to a unlawful Alaskan outpost and grubstake's two miners, De Bar and McDonald, who soon discover a rich gold mine. Cultured Joanne Gray, also comes to the rough mining town, is offended in her hotel room by Quade, the proprietor of the local dance-hall. John comes to her assistance and learns that she is looking for her husband, who disappeared without a trace in the gold fields. John goes to investigate a grave marked with Gray's name, and drunken De Bar, tells Joanne of his rich gold claim. Quade chances to hear De Bar's remark and tortures him until he discovers the mine's location. Quade starts for the mine after he dynamites the hillside above Aldous' cabin, trapping John and Joanne inside. Before they are rescued, they confess their mutual love. Once freed, John is told that Joanne's husband has been found dead, and the lovers are married. John then learns that Joanne's husband is, in fact, Rann, Quade's partner. Quade abducts Joanne and Rann claims her for his wife; Quade then kills Rann and is in turn killed by De Bar. Now John and Joanne look forward to a happy life together.

A Jewel in Pawn Synopsis

Widow Martin struggles to rear her little daughter Nora amid the squalor of the slums yet imbue her with the refinement to which she had been accustomed in her girlhood. Fearing that she is losing the battle, Mrs. Martin decides to turn to her wealthy father, who had disowned her upon her marriage years earlier. To raise funds for the trip, she pawns Nora to Aaron Levovitch, an aged pawnbroker with a heart of gold under his gruff exterior. Upon reaching her father's house, Mrs. Martin falls ill and dies before she can relate her story, and Nora is raised by the pawnbroker until a reporter prints her human interest story of a "jewel in pawn." The girl's grandfather reads the article and claims Nora, then sends her to a fashionable boarding school. Nora longs for her home in the slums and her sweetheart Jimmy, however, and so returns to marry Jimmy in an elaborate traditional Jewish ceremony at the pawnbroker's home.