
The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won.

The year 1926 represented a peculiar juncture in American cinema—a moment where the silent medium had reached its zenith of expressive capability just as the cultural zeitgeist was...
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