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Wings of the Morning Synopsis

In Singapore, Captain Robert Anstruthers attempts to protect his friend Colonel Costabel from scandal since the colonel's wife is having an affair with Lord Ventnor. When Costabel travels to the interior, his wife and Ventnor have a rendezvous. Upon his return, Costabel discovers Ventnor's hat in his wife's boudoir. His wife tells him that Anstruthers has been annoying her and that Ventnor was trying to protect her from him. Anstruthers is court-martialed and sent away in disgrace. He enlists in the Navy under the name of Robert Jenks and becomes a sailor aboard a ship owned by Sir Arthur Deane. During a typhoon which wrecks the ship, Anstruthers saves the life of Deane's daughter Iris. For several weeks, the two live alone on an island. They discover a gold mine, but are set upon by a band of pirates. Deane and Ventnor arrive on a gunboat and defeat the pirates. When Iris announces her engagement to Anstruthers, Ventnor tells Deane that if he does not break his daughter's engagement, he will withdraw his financial support. Deane refuses to interfere, and Anstruthers and Iris get married. Costabel's wife, who is enraged that Ventnor went in search of Iris, confesses everything to her husband, and Anstruthers' commission is restored.

The Galley Slave Synopsis

Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his misanthropic uncle to plead for money. After Francesca refuses the uncle's offer to change his will if she will have sex with him, the uncle, declaring that he has misjudged women, decides to leave money to provide for Francesca and her child but dies of heart failure first. Antoine inherits a castle and title and deserts Francesca. Later, while posing in Florence for an American artist, Francesca meets the artist's sweetheart, American heiress Cecily Blaine, whose mother wants her to marry someone with a title. When Francesca learns that Antoine plans to marry Cecily, she threatens to expose him, but he convinces Cecily that Francesca and the artist are married. Cecily then consents to marry Antoine. After Francesca and the artist are sent to the galleys unjustly for theft, Antoine is exposed. When he tries to kidnap their child, Francesca shoots him, whereupon Cecily marries the artist.