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Wrath Synopsis
The Grand Duke is governor of Transcaspia, a Russian province, bordering the desert of Kara-Koom. His son Feodor, spurning Count Nikolai's daughter, Olga, loves Evelyn Burnham, an American girl whom he rescues from Abdallah, a Turk, who has kidnapped her. Evelyn and Feodor are married, and trying to escape, are captured. Feodor is sent to prison for trying to desert his post and Evelyn is sent to New York, where a child is born to her. Sixteen years later the great war is on. Feodor believes his wife is dead. He is sent to New York to buy ammunition and there meets Eve Leslie and Adam Moore. Eve has just learned that all her fortune comes from the manufacture of munitions. She does not believe in war and shuts down her enormous plant, depriving the Russians of one of their chief sources of supply. Feodor returns to Russia. While he was in the United States his wife, who had been told he was dead, had seen him with Olga and believed he had married Olga. Eve hears of Evelyn and of the child. She and Adam have heard from Feodor his story. All messages to Feodor are intercepted and Eve and Adam, with Evelyn, go to find him in Transcaspia. There exciting events occur. Feodor is about to wed Olga. Eve learns that Evelyn is her own mother. The Turks attack the Russians. Eve is near death, but Adam and Feodor, coming to the rescue in an armored motor with machine guns, save the day, and in the end love triumphs over wrath.
Beyond the Law Synopsis
When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.
"Wrath" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Beyond the Law" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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Wrath