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The Slanderers Synopsis

Two brothers, their mother and foster-sister live in a small town on a farm not far from a village. In dying, the husband and father made his brother executive of the estate and the crabbed uncle has the widow and her two boys subjected to his whims. Both boys are in love with their foster-sister, who is fond of them both and treats them with such impartiality as to cause each many jealous moments. The younger brother endures brutal treatment from his uncle on occasion, but restrains himself for the sake of the invalid mother. Comes the call to arms for the Great War and the younger enlists. The older tries to, but the recruiting officer will not permit him, saying he can best serve his country by running the farm. The night before the younger goes away he learns that the uncle plans to deprive them of the farm and goes to the uncle's home to remonstrate. As the result of the fight the uncle dies, but the boy does not know it, and not until after he returns from France a hero widely acclaimed by his home town does he learn of the tragedy that has beset his loved ones as the result of the discovery of the death of the uncle - then he takes rugged steps to right the wrongs, resultant in part from a small-town narrowness.

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.