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The Rage of Paris Synopsis
Forced into a loveless marriage by her mother, Joan Coolidge, a beautiful American girl, finds her husband a brute. She runs away to Paris and studies dancing and becomes The Rage of Paris. Her portrait is hung in the art gallery. Her former sweetheart, a civil engineer fresh from conquests in Arabia, sees the portrait and finds her. When he goes to Arabia she follows. Her husband trails her across the ocean into the desert, but is killed by a half-crazed native during a sandstorm. Joan and her old lover are finally reunited.
The Beckoning Trail Synopsis
New York playboy Carter Richmond inherits the family fortune, but it doesn't take him long to blow it. All that's left is an abandoned mine in California, so he travels west to see if he can get anything for it. He finds that a miner, Big Him Helton, and his pretty young daughter Mary have been "squatters" at the site for years, and a neighboring miner, Placer Murray, has been trying to run them off so he can take it over himself. Mary accidentally shoots Carter, thinking him to be one of Murray's men. As she nurses him back to health, they begin to fall in love. Complications ensue.
"The Rage of Paris" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "The Beckoning Trail" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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The Rage of Paris
