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- A crazed scientist calling himself The Voice from the Sky broadcasts his voice all across the globe, and threatens to suspend all energy in the earth's atmosphere and turn day into night unless the world immediately destroys all arms and vehicles of warfare. U. S. Secret Service agent Jack Deering is sent to Arizona to investigate, where he meets the scientist's daughter Jean. The ten-episode battle then ensues between Deering, a spy for the Russian government, an agent from Scotland Yard, and a mysterious cloaked "Man from Nowhere," who pursue each other from Canada to California in the attempt to acquire the "secret of the air."
- Guiding two covered wagons along a desert trail, Duke Steele meets and befriends Sam Le Saint, a mysterious hermit who is searching for a former partner who destroyed his home and ran away with his wife and infant daughter eighteen years earlier. Later, the two men ride into a mining camp controlled by Silver Sleed, who runs a gambling place. Duke is smitten by beautiful young Nola "Luck" Sleed, and learns that she is the gambler's daughter. Silver Sleed also happens to be the man that Sam Le Saint is searching for. Sam, who is dying, kills Sleed, and Duke learns that Luck is Sam's long-lost daughter.
- Coming into the town of Sun-Dog, the stage is held up, and Dave Richards and his pal, Silent Slade, find a note in the empty coach that implicates Scott Martin, the driver. Richards loves Jean, Martin's daughter, and, suspecting a frame up, he decides not to report his discovery to the sheriff. The gang's leader, Zell Mohr, later throws suspicion on Richards, and when things get too hot for him, he escapes into the hills. Meanwhile, Jean wrings the truth from her father: the note was left by the gang to repay Martin for refusing to join in with them; Jean, Richards, and Slade capture the gang, and the sheriff takes them off to jail while Richards takes Jean in his arms.
- Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
- A cowboy sets out to prevent a rancher's beautiful daughter from marrying a villain and losing the ranch.
- Jack Stokes is Sheriff Lamar's right-hand man. Mrs. Lamar receives a threatening letter from a gambler. He threatens to expose her former life if she does not persuade the Sheriff to give him free play. Jack overhears the conversation. In the fight which follows, the gambler is accidentally killed. His gang tries to lynch Jack. He is released from prison by Mrs. Lamar, and escapes. Tom Stone and Jim Bland are outlaws. Tom receives a letter from his sister informing him of her journey west. They resolve to hold up the "Oasis," a dance hall and saloon, and with the money send the girl East again. The robbery is easily accomplished, but Bland is fatally wounded. He dies, and Tom puts his own name on the grave's crosspiece, thus hoping to throw the posse oft his trail. Jack sees the grave and conceives the same idea. He places his name on the crosspiece. In leaving he sees Tom's coat and finds Beulah's picture and the swag. He goes to the "Oasis" and there rescues Beulah from the life of a dance hall girl, claiming she is his sister. Through unforeseen circumstances Jack is accused of robbing the "Oasis." He is about to be hung but escapes. At a deserted cabin he finds the real Tom, who has been badly wounded while holding up a stage coach. The sheriffs from the two towns arrive. Sheriff Lamar clears Jack, and Beulah decides that she would rather have Jack as husband than brother.
- Young Lenore Vance, loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father. She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her eccentric chemist uncle. She later becomes the person of interest in the murder of her father, being labeled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". When Dr. Richard Taunton meets Lenore at a party thrown by Millie Brown-Potter, he becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from himself and Mrs. Potter, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself, and makes the discovery that he Uncle is the one who killed her father. The police are notified, but they discover that he has committed suicide upon arriving at his house. It is later revealed to the audience that the entire story is in a book that Lenore is reading.
- Jack Hardy, Sr., sends his son West to make a man of him. Jack falls in love with Miss Benson, ranch secretary. Taunted by the girl, he breaks an intractable horse to prove his courage. When Tex Fuller and his gang try to get Jack, Deerfoot, his half-breed brother, takes the missiles intended for his brother. Jack fights the gang and brings them to justice. But Miss Benson is not yet won. She thinks of the girl back East to whom Jack was engaged. Jack's father arrives and announces that he is engaged to the Eastern girl. Miss Benson surrenders.
- "Hurricane" Smith (Francis Ford), head of a steamship company, plots to keep the railroad from entering the city. The map of the proposed route becomes the instrument by which Blake (Frank Baker) and Florence (Florence Gilbert) are harassed by Smith's gang and repeatedly are rescued by "Pinto Pete," (Ashton Dearholt) who is adept with a whip.
- Clay Norton and Duke Fuller are partners in a mining venture and have several claims, none of which have proved particularly successfully but do have promise. They are both in love with Agnes, and Clay wins her hand. While he is away in a nearby town to buy a wedding ring, Jim Butts, who has the territory's best mine, dies and Duke jumps his claim and sells it for $10,000, and the widow Butts is left penniless. When Clay, on his return, finds out what Duke has done, he demands his partnership share of $5,000 and tells Duke that they should see the widow and give her the money to go East so she will cause them no trouble. They visit her together and Clay tells her he will give her $5,000 and forces Duke to do the same. Overcome with the shock of the good fortune, the widow faints, and Duke, furious at being tricked, rushes from the cabin and meets Agnes, who is on her way to meet Clay. He takes her to the door of the cabin where she sees the widow Butts in the arms of her sweetheart. Misunderstanding the situation and being told by Duke that Clay is unfaithful to her, she breaks off their engagement.
- Unable to pay the extra fare, The Girl--returning home after failing to make good in the city--bundles her pet dog to look like a baby. On the train the dog is mistaken for a kidnapped baby, and The Girl is left with the real baby. The presence of the baby coupled with the extraordinary explanation causes The Girl's guardians to doubt her and the town to ring with gossip. The original kidnappers, who have followed her home, attempt to retrieve the baby, and The Girl, discovered fainting in the arms of The Man who befriended her on the train, is turned out of her home. The Man loses his job for shielding The Girl. Just as they are being marched to the outskirts of town to be tarred and feathered, the guardians arrive with the real parents to claim the baby. The Girl marries her protector.
- Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances Powell. The foreman and his "half-breed" accomplice Cholo kidnap Frances.
- Geraldine Brent, a tomboyish girl, is separated from her mother and taken east by wealthy relatives. In her absence, her mother is dispossessed and sent to the poorhouse. "Gerry" learns of this action, unmasks the culprits--mortgage-holder Masters and oilman Colonel Pettijohn, who have discovered that the property is rich in oil--and puts matters aright.
- Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy Yak takes over the search for the rustlers. John Lawson says Yak cannot marry his daughter until the murderer of the Sheriff is caught. But unknown to Lawson, the murderer is his own son.
- "Mad" Vic Dyson owns a ranch, through which, unknown to him, a railroad is forced to route its right-of-way. Dayton Keever, a local cattle baron who speculates in real estate, hires the Madden gang to drive Vic off the land. Madden's men stampede Vic's cattle and cut off his water supply, but he holds firm. Vic is then responsible for an accident to Keever's secretary, Neva, that leaves her blind, and he takes the girl in when she is deserted by her fiancé. Bitten by remorse for the girl's blindness, Vic sells his cattle to Keever and deeds his ranch to Neva, with whom he has fallen in love. He then rides off to a showdown with Keever, killing several of Madden's men on the way. He fights Keever and throws him from a bridge into a swift river. Neva, who has recovered from her blindness, rides up and begs Vic to save Keever's life. After Vic pulls the cattle baron from the water, Neva tells him that the railroad has offered $50,000 for his former land and offers to share her good fortune with him on a permanent basis.
- Jack Stokes, a young ranch man, falls in love with Elizabeth Welsh, the daughter of an old miner who owns land rich in gold. Elizabeth tires of ranch life and goes east to finish her education. Speculator Blane Flint recognizes the value of the Welsh properties and endeavors to marry Phoebe, Elizabeth's younger sister. After Jack rescues Phoebe from Blane's carefully laid plans, the speculator goes east in search of Elizabeth, who has become indifferent to Jack. Unaware of Blane's true character, Elizabeth accepts his marriage proposal. Although Jack is saddened by the news of their marriage, he discovers a growing attraction between himself and Phoebe. In the meantime, Blane plots with Hamby, a crooked attorney, to steal the mineral rights to Welsh's land. Jack thwarts the scheme, leading to Blane's arrest. He and Phoebe marry, and the sisters are reconciled.
- Driven from his throne by the scheming Targon, the King of Paloma is banished to the prison mines, where his son, Pietro, is bayoneted for protesting. A shipwreck allows the king to escape and find refuge with his followers on Paloma's rocky shore. Rosita cares for the blinded king and tells him of Pinto Pete, who defends the oppressed with his bullwhip. The paths of Rosita and Pinto Pete cross when both are captured by Targon's guards, the mystery man is revealed to be Pietro, and both escape to be reunited with the king. Swearing vengeance, Pinto Pete bravely and successfully undertakes the overthrow of Targon, and the throne is again occupied by the king, who abdicates in favor of Pinto Pete and Rosita.
- A dying prospector tells "Peaceful Peters" of a mine he has discovered for "Buddy's Gal" and of his ambush by claim jumpers, and he gives Peters the location of the mine. In town Peters discovers the crooked dealings of dance-hall-owner Jim Blalock and assayer Peter Hunter. Meanwhile, he has narrowly escaped efforts to frame him for a robbery and a murder, and he rescues Mary Langdon, who has come to the dance-hall to answer an advertisement for a dance teacher, from Blalock. Peters wins the love of Mary, who turns out to be the dead prospector's niece, "Buddy's Gal."
- Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice.
- Trailing the man who killed his father, Scar Hanan goes to work on the ranch of Bart Hutchins, a mean fellow who takes an instant dislike to Scar and frames him for cattle rustling. During his trial, Scar escapes with the help of Shorty and heads for South America. He gets as far as Los Angeles, where he saves Marion Fleming from a runaway horse and falls in love with her. Marion's father, a surgeon, removes the disfiguring scar from Hanan's face. Hanan then returns to Hutchins' ranch, which, he has discovered from Fleming, is his own property, having been stolen by Hutchins from the elder Hanan. Hutchins attempts to kill Scar and is badly beaten for his pains. The sheriff arrests Hutchins; Scar gets his property and marries Marion.
- Frank Mathewson, Jr., a would-be cowboy and the son of a Chicago saddle manufacturer, decides to investigate on his own some unexplained competition his father's firm has encountered in Claxton, Arizona. In Claxton, cowboy Luke Strong has been blackmailed by a rival firm to run Mathewson's salesmen out of town and promptly does the same when junior shows up. Frank returns, captures Luke after attempted robbery, and continues his romance with Millie Atwood, daughter of his father's client.
- Paul Stevens accidentally witnesses three thieves hiding money they have stolen. After they leave, Paul takes the money and tries to return it to the rightful owner. Upon discovering that the victim was murdered, Paul looks for his next of kin, M. J. Haley, who is not in town. He sends for the relative and is surprised to find that M. J. stands for Mary Jane, the victim's niece. The thieves attempt to get Paul out of the way, but in a thrilling battle for both Mary Jane's and his own life while trapped in a burning cabin, Paul holds his own until the sheriff arrives, and wins Mary Jane's love.
- Richard Stanton, with a map to a hidden treasure, arrives with his servant Tim. Others are also looking for it and plan to kill the two. The ranch is supposedly haunted so Richard and Tim team up with Elsa and dress as ghosts to scare away the bad guys.
- Joe Dayton is in charge of building a railroad through a section of northwestern Canada. Jacques Durand, a bandit whose territory the railroad is to run though, knows that if it is completed it will bring law and order and drive him out, so he sets out to stop it any way he can--and the fact that he and Dayton look enough like each other to be twins makes his job somewhat easier.
- A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the ore found on Jess to accuse him of the murder. Jess escapes from the mob of townspeople who later learn that the body of the supposedly dead miner has mysteriously disappeared.
- John Murdock, haunted by the memory of what he believes to have been an unrequited love, neglects his work, resulting in a disastrous train wreck. Following his termination, John goes in search of the woman responsible for his downfall. Meanwhile in New York City, Mary Stanhope remains silent during her divorce hearing until the judge awards custody of their child to her husband. She then discloses a story of disloyalty, cruelty, and abuse, which compels the judge to reverse his decision. Later, Mary takes a trip to the Adirondack Mountains and encounters the destitute John, who recognizes her as the woman he loved and lost. When he attempts to kill her child, Mary reveals that John is the father. The child's charm inspires John to reform, leading to his reconciliation with Mary.
- Sheriff Jefferson Mosby, of the Kentucky Mosbys, is assigned by the district inspector of Arid, a small town in Nevada, to investigate a dangerous region known as Cactus Flats, which is infested by outlaws bent on driving out the homesteaders. In Cactus Flats, he meets Molly Miller and Danny Duggan, the last of the homesteaders, and learns of the cruel way Buck Connor, the mayor, orders them to vacate every now and then. By means of disguise, Mosby infiltrates Connor's gang and catches Connor with the goods; then, with the aid of Molly and Danny, he arrests the culprits. In the end, in spite of the inspector's advice not to trust a woman, he decides to take orders from Molly for the rest of his life.
- Bank clerk Vincent Forrest (Edward Earle) loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe (Hedda Hopper) and her provider, Van Merton (Ward Crane). Forrest's wife Ann (Marjorie Daw) begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.
- Major Lee Pomeroy, of an old southern family, is forced to sell his daughter's favorite racehorse to extricate himself from financial difficulties. Peggy returns home from school to find that Chain Lightning is now in the possession of Colonel Bradley, a longtime enemy of her father and a former suitor of her mother's. Pomeroy falls ill and bets his remaining funds on Chain Lightning in an impending race; meanwhile, Red Rollins, the horse's jockey, makes advances to Peggy, who repulses him but later pretends to agree to his proposition in return for his winning the race on Chain Lightning. An automobile accident allows Peggy to escape, and on the day of the race she dons the jockey's clothes and rides Chain Lightning to victory. The major recovers and is reconciled with Bradley, while Peggy becomes engaged to the colonel's nephew, Bob.
- Steve Carlson is forced to kill a man in self-defense and leaves town. His sister, Ruth, falls in love with Walker, a scheming oil promoter who plans to leave her, and in an attempt to force his hand Steve is beaten in a fight and jailed. When Marion, Steve's sweetheart, proves Walker's part in her father's death, Steve escapes and forces a confession, thus freeing himself from the charge of manslaughter.
- Phil Stanley (William Fairbanks) and Harry Hartley (Edmond Cobb) are traveling toward Alaska when they come to a town controlled by scoundrels. The leaders of the town banish Phil and Harry, but they refuse to leave and send Glory (Ena Gregory) to summon the sheriff from a neighboring town to assist them. The sheriff comes to Phil's rescue and arrests the town council of scoundrels.
- A war veteran gets a job on a ranch, but the foreman takes a dislike to him because the owner's daughter falls for him. Things start to look bad for the new cowboy when a calf is found shot dead and he is suspected of doing it, and a letter arrives for him from a woman claiming to be his abandoned wife.
- (1941, Ellkay) Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Buzzy Henry, George Morrell. A rancher is shot while looking over a remote part of his property. The dying rancher tells of seeing a black phantom pinto when he was shot. What is the secret of Black Mountain Cut, the area where the rancher was shot? Dave and Buzz try to find out. 16mm.
- Young society girl Joyce Lyndon is engaged to energetic Grant Garrison, who lures the judge's daughter to a roadhouse for the night and meets his death at the hands of an abandoned wife. Joyce escapes in fright and meets Martin Antrim, who protects her in exchange for an introduction to her circle of friends. Antrim elicits a confession from Garrison's widow, and Joyce recovers an incriminating handbag from the innkeepers when they attempt to blackmail her.
- Drew Halliday, stage driver, is abashed when the little girl he admires returns from finishing school a beautiful young woman. When a sporty gambler and saloon keeper forces his attentions on the young lady, Drew comes to her defense. Because of his courageous handling of the gambler, Drew is elected sheriff. He acquires more responsibility when he takes Hela for his wife after her father dies. Soon afterward her brother is jailed for a murder that the gambler committed. The gambler again makes advances toward Hela: this time he is caught by his own girl, who in a rage shoots him. Hela is accused of the killing; Drew takes the blame; but when the woman confesses all, the innocent are freed.
- Warton, an ex-convict, and Crowder and Devlin, both counterfeiters, join forces to set up an operation in a small western town on the edge of the desert. The town's sheriff, wanting to cut into the deal, offers them protection in return for a rake-off. The trio, not agreeable to this arrangement, incurs his enmity; and the sheriff retaliates by trying to have them hanged. All looks dim for the three when chased into the desert by the sheriff's men, but they escape.
- Jack Harkins, sheriff of Stony Ridge, goes in search of Red Saunders, who caused the death of Jack's sister, and incurs the enmity of the townsmen in Cactus Center. Saunders, who is forcing his attentions on Matilda Ann Carter, a wealthy young heiress, is frightened by the approach of Harkins. Ann shields him from his pursuers and leads him to Saunders, to whom he gives a fierce beating. Saunders feigns death, and Harkins is sought for murder but manages to expose the ruse. All ends happily.
- A rancher is forced to give up his ranch, and later finds himself accused of the murder of the new owner. To complicate matters, he is in love with the sister of the murdered owner, but she won't have anything to do with him because she thinks he killed her brother. He sets out to find the real killer, clear his name and win the love of the man's sister.
- City youth sets out for West to avenge father's murder. Arrives in town where killer lives and after a series of fights he accomplishes his purpose. Falls in love with school teacher and resolves to stay in town.
- Carmen, a prospector's wife, tires of living in the wilderness and, disobeying her husband, attends a dance, where she meets up with slick gambler Flash Kirby. Her husband's friend Bill Carson rescues her from Kirby's advances, but then he and Carmen form an attachment. Complications ensue.