Summary
The sun-baked desolation of the Arizona mountains becomes the improbable stage for a metropolitan coquette's elaborate ruse, as Alice Beaumont, the sophisticated progeny of a San Francisco financial magnate, feigns a rattlesnake bite to capture the attention of Larry McBride, a rugged rancher. This calculated deception propels McBride on a journey that swiftly veers from romantic pursuit to chivalrous intervention. En route to Alice, his innate rectitude compels him to eject the boorish gangster Jerry Casey from a train for accosting the unassuming country girl, Mildred Hart. Their paths intertwine once more amidst the glittering, yet morally ambiguous, environs of a San Francisco cabaret, where Larry again champions Mildred's cause. It is within this urban labyrinth that Larry encounters Rodney Curtis, a calculating opportunist whose sole ambition is to secure Alice's fortune through marriage. Curtis, in a sinister alliance with the vengeful Jerry Casey, meticulously crafts a conspiracy to frame Larry for a heinous murder. The intricate web of deceit threatens to ensnare the innocent rancher until Alice's discerning father, a man well-versed in the machinations of power and deception, uncovers the truth, exposing Rodney as the true perpetrator. With justice meticulously dispensed and their authentic affections affirmed, Alice and Larry embrace their future together, a resolution beautifully paralleled by the impending nuptials of Larry's loyal partner, Pee Wee, and the resilient Mildred.
Synopsis
Alice Beaumont, daughter of a San Francisco, California, capitalist, captures the attention of rancher Larry McBride by pretending to have been bitten by a rattlesnake in the Arizona mountains. On his way to visit Alice, Larry tosses gangster Jerry Casey off the train for accosting country girl Mildred Hart, and later comes to her defense in a San Francisco cabaret. There Larry meets Rodney Curtis, a youth who intends to marry Alice for her money. He and Jerry conspire to frame Larry on a murder charge, until Alice's father reveals Rodney as the killer. Alice and Larry decide to marry, as does his partner Pee Wee, who is betrothed to Mildred.
