Luke Drummond, popularly known as "Unlucky Luke," and Seth Powers, his friend and chum, have a mock quarrel over a new school teacher as to who saw her first. They roll in the dirt to the disgust of the lady herself, who witnesses the bout, though she does not know the cause. Luke and Seth, in common with many other citizens, are unsettled by the charm and grace of the new teacher. The two young men vie with each other as to which shall escort her home from school, leading to humorous situations.
Small town sheriff "Silent" Davidson tries to protect aging sheep rancher Scott Martin and his daughter, Jean, from the predations of local cattlemen. Head cattleman Pete Kane and banker Jeff Sedley ambush the old man and frame the sheriff for his murder, but Scott is only badly wounded. Recovering consciousness, he tells Jean who the real culprits are. However, Kane seizes and imprisons her. Ultimately, Silent breaks out of jail, finds and frees Jean from her bonds, proves his innocence, and brings Kane and Sedley to justice. Naturally, he wins Jean's heart.
When three friends find a crumbled old love letter, they begin to imagine the story that lies behind it, uncovering the "truth" of a father's hidden life and the betrayals to his family.
A Father named Mr. Good Guy is proud of his son for killing a wild chicken, but his smile flips upside down when he figures out from a despicable looking wanderer that the chicken was owned by him. His name was Mr. Bad Guy. After Mr. Good Guy tries to reason with Mr. Bad Guy, they have a good-ol rootin tootin cowboy stand off. Will Mr. Good Guy successfully stand up for his son and win the shoot out against Mr. Bad Guy?
Sam Baxter, chief of the Texas Rangers, learns that Scarface Wheeler has been released from prison and is employed as foreman on the Flying X Ranch. Because Jud Howell, who gave evidence against Scarface, fears revenge from the ex-convict, Baxter sends Salty Saunders to shadow Scarface. Salty gets a job on the Flying X but is fired after saving Betty Hampton from certain death during a roundup. Later, Salty secretly enters the house and overhears Hampton, Betty's supposed uncle, conspire with Scarface to raid Jud Howell's cattle. Salty informs Baxter, who sends deputies after the rustlers, and has several more adventures. The posse returns with Scarface, who turns state's evidence and reveals Hampton as the murderer of Betty's father and of Salty's father. Salty and Betty are united. —AFI
In the dusty town of Mazarrón, 'El Rubio' is an enigma. He arrived almost a year ago, and no one knows why. Every sunrise, he faces the same existential question that haunts him beyond the dunes. 'El cowboy sin montura' is an introspective western about the search for purpose and the echo of the past in a silent present.
Milagros, a strange gunwoman, arrives in a town in San Juan. Commissioner Rancagua believes that she is coming to pay a debt, but she is coming to exact revenge on those who sealed her mother's fate. She is none other than the daughter of the legendary Difunta Correa.
When borderlines were not limits for pioneers, the far north of Brazil became the destination for men and women seeking to build their lives, facing new challenges, new dreams. While for some, conquest came through hard and honest work, others achieved it through brute force and violence.
Major Carter, owner of the Sunset mines, reads of a reward offered for Cheyenne Harry if captured. The butler gives him a telegram telling of the flooding of several shafts in his mine. He is soon on the way to the mine in his car. Ruth, his daughter, follows in her roadster.
The sheriff lives with his sister, and is engaged in running down an unknown bandit who has been quite active in the district. It develops that Jim Brown, a poor miner, who has lost his wife and is in straitened circumstances, has become embittered at the world and is the bandit, living alone with his little boy, Tom.
Robert Graham, a rich land owner, buys a farm adjoining that of a widow, Mrs. Sarah Brown. In surveying the property, the report of the surveyors makes the claim that the Widow Brown's fence, dividing the two properties, encroaches five feet on Graham's property.
Tom Merry, a stagecoach driver, is in love with Vicky, daughter of Henderson, superintendent of the Eagle Mining Company. Henderson does not approve of his daughter's choice. Jordan, who works in the office, proposes to Vicky, is refused and when Jordan becomes insulting, Henderson discharges him. Jordan incites the men to a riot at the mining company's office and plans with two others, to hold up the stage which Tom drives, on his return trip and get the payroll.
Heralded as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this minor outdoor melodrama starred Dynamite, one of canine phenomenon Rin Tin Tin's legion of imitators. Veteran actor Edmund Cobb headed the human cast as Captain Tom Grant, a Texas ranger impersonating an outlaw in order to infiltrate a gang of smugglers.
Mumbaca, a former soldier of a driving force who had become a bandit in the late 19th century, far from the crime and violence that spread throughout the Northeast, has his wife cruelly murdered by the notorious cangaceiro Alfinete. Lost in the inhospitable forests of the hinterland and separated by their craft, the two fight a particular battle while facing the inclement weather of nature and the limits of survival.