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- People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
- Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...
- Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfe's. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.
- A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
- A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
- The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
- An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
- The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...
- Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his wife were off on a two-day holiday. Unknown to Smith, Jessup and his partner, Ross King, had a large cache of ivory tusks in the jungle, and he had told Phil about it. Meanwhile, Mary Smith has decided to steam-boat down the Congo River to Capetown for an extended holiday. Kuba, King's gun-bearer, asks Smith to write a letter to King, currently residing at a New York City Explorer's Club, and advise him that his partner has died. Talbot sends a letter to his stateside sweetheart, Diane Cameron, and her father, asking them to come to Africa and join him on an ivory-treasure expedition, and replenish their family-fortune lost in the recent stock-market crash. What Mr. Cameron and Diane don't know about Talbot is that his years in Africa have unhinged him. On the voyage over, Diane meets Ross,and they fall in love. The Camerons, King and Talbot start on a trek to find the ivory, but Talbot has his own agenda regarding the ivory.
- When a railroad engineer refuses to participate in a strike, the union drops him and he loses his job.
- A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
- A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
- A wealthy family loses all of its money, but a foreign count who has married into the family helps them out.
- To fulfill the requirements for obtaining a large inheritance, a man must travel around the world. In his travels he comes upon a deposed princess, and falls in love.
- Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
- The Bar None Ranch has been run by Bess Allison (Olive Hasbrouck) ever since the death of her father left her in charge. But trouble breaks out with cattle been rustled and cowhands being killed. It is being done by a rustler know as Two White Pebbles because he puts two white pebbles under the head of a man he has killed. But Zip Wallace (Hal Taliaferro as Wally Wales), the son of an old friend of Bess Allison's father, comes to the rescue...pretending to be a tenderfoot.
- A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
- John Benson and Tim Mannick ride into Marin City in search of Morgan Shelby, a crook who cheated them out of their ranch. Shelby tries to kill them, hiring gunman Bob Grice to do the job, but he is unsuccessful. Shelby is finally exposed and driven out of town while Benson wins Shelby's sister, Betty.
- The Cowboy works on the ranch owned by The Girl. Her brother, in the clutches of a crook, attempts to steal money from The Girl: blame for the theft is laid on The Cowboy. The Cowboy learns of the plot of The Man, another rancher, to steal The Girl's money. The Cowboy prevents the theft, captures The Man, and wins The Girl.
- Upon his release from prison, Jim Regan, who had been framed for theft by Dan Norris, is jailed again for attempting to shoot Norris. His friend Wally, seeking work at the Bar X ranch, is held up by "Angel-Face," a member of Denver Dan's gang. Realizing his victim is faint from hunger, he shares his food with him and the two decide to become partners and get work together at the ranch. Regan is released on the understanding he will not leave town and goes to the Weston ranch to see Wally. Hiram, Wally's father, sends him away, but when Regan is found dead near the ranch, Hiram is arrested for the murder. Overhearing Norris admit to the crime, Angel-Face informs Wally but is himself shot by the culprit, who then escapes. Wally follows and captures him. Angel-Face recovers, Hiram is released, and Wally marries Ruth, the daughter of Regan.
- Doris Bayne is instructed by her wealthy father to deliver a valuable diamond necklace by air. When the airplane is robbed in flight, Doris is forced to throw the necklace from the craft's open cockpit, and it lands at the feet of Bud Keenan, an honest ranch foreman. Bud picks it up and soon finds himself looking down the barrel of a pistol held by Doris, who has parachuted from the plane. Doris ties up Bud, but he escapes and rescues her after she falls down an embankment. Bud takes Doris to his ranch, but while he fetches a doctor, gang leader Scar Degan appears and demands the necklace, which Doris has given to a Native American woman for safekeeping. Scar takes Doris to the gang's hideout, forcing Bud to retrieve the necklace and buy her freedom. A battle follows that leaves the gang dead and Bud in possession of the necklace, which he returns to Doris.
- Wally returns from prison having been framed by outlaw Bowers and Banker Brown. When Wally and Bowers fight, Wally is jailed. Getting the Sheriff and posse out of town, Bowers robs Brown's bank to get the note implicating him in Wally's crime. Helen seeing the robbery frees Wally who starts out single handed after the gang.
- Wally Fraser comes to Juniper City to take revenge on the murderer of his father, whom he believes to be Dawson, a local banker. After rescuing the daughter of rancher Crawford from a runaway team, Wally warns Crawford that Al Meggs is cheating in a poker game; in a fight Meggs kills a man and seeks shelter with Dawson. Crawford hires Wally to help drive to the railroad a shipment of cattle, the funds from which are to pay off notes to Dawson. Wally forces Dawson to accept the money and give them a receipt, but they are robbed by Meggs; Wally finds Meggs dying, and before Dawson can shoot him, Meggs finishes off the villain. Wally wins the rancher's daughter, Mildred.
- Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a reward to any spectator to last three rounds in fighting him. While in the ring, he notices in the audience the two men who stole his money. He knocks out his contestant, pursues the crooks, and recovers the money.
- Belle (Mary Nolan), cafe waitress on the San Francisco docks, becomes the moll of small-time racketeer Vance (Jon Davidson), but a slumming novelist John Banning (Jason Robards Sr.), decides to rescue her from chosen seedy life.
- Bill Drake finds a girl who has fainted in the middle of the road and takes her back to the ranch where he works. The owner of the ranch, Evans, refuses the girl shelter, and Bill places her in the care of Graves, the local undertaker. To be near the girl, Bill takes a job in the general store. Tom Evans, the son of the ranch owner, loses his father's payroll at cards and robs the store in order to replace the money. Bill is accused of the crime and taken into custody, but he escapes and finds Tom, bringing him in for the sheriff. In the meantime, a detective hired by the girl's father has found her, and the father has arrived to take her home by train. Bill rides after the train, leaps through a window, and proposes to the startled girl.
- A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.
- Lightning Bill Lewis sets out to capture Gómez, the leader of a ruthless gang that has been tormenting a border town. He prevents Gómez from kidnapping his girl Mary, but Gómez escapes. With the aid of Captain Duerta, Lightning Bill pursues the gang, and when they are captured by Mexican soldiers, he is free to marry.
- Bill Dillon is denied employment at the Harper ranch but gets a job with the Taylors, whose difficulties with an irrigation project are then resolved through Bill's friendship with Dorothy Harper. Discovering a plot to steal the payroll, Dillon is harassed by foreman Hawk Morton, but he escapes to rescue Dorothy and her father.
- A gang of rustlers has a large herd of cattle but no land on which to graze them. They decide to take over Colonel Halliday's (Tom Bay) ranch. They attack and Halliday's wife and their daughter Ann (Olive Hasbrouck) are losing the battle until Jim Dane (Hal Taliaferro, as Wally Wales), the man from Peaceful Valley, rides in and takes a hand.
- Madge Walling's uncle dies and leaves her his ranch, but with the proviso that she be married by noon on the day she turns 18 years of age. Harold Rice, the man she is to marry, is held up by bandit Pete Black and doesn't arrive at the ranch on time. Secret Service agent Rankin manages to recover Harold's money from Black, but is injured in the process and suffers amnesia. He wanders onto the Walling ranch, where he is mistakenly assumed to be Rice. Complications ensue.
- Attracted to a girl, a cowboy takes a job on the adjoining ranch hoping to see her again and he gets his chance when her horse becomes a runaway.
- Two families, the Waltons and the Darcys, have been feuding over who owns an important waterhole. Patriarch John Walton decides that the feud should be settled by an outside party. Young cowboy Wally Rand winds up in the middle of the dispute because of his love for the pretty Jane Darcy, and finds himself mixed up in a swindle and kidnapping.
- Buddy Martin, a cowpuncher, falls in love with Rose Cooper, whom he meets in a Chinese restaurant in Omaha, and frustrates a plot between Bill Cooper, her stepfather, and Scar-Face Hanan, a notorious criminal. At Rose's insistence, Buddy is given a job on their ranch. Buddy overhears Cooper conspiring with Scar-Face to rustle his own (Cooper's) herd until he can persuade Rose's mother to sell the ranch; when Buddy discovers the rustlers at work, Cooper accuses him of being a rustler and sends him off the ranch, and disguised with a beard, he finds refuge in a camp maintained by Scar-Face. When the sale of the ranch is imminent, Buddy circumvents the bandits, takes the money from Cooper, and notifies the sheriff. In a series of chases on horseback and by train, Buddy overcomes Scar-Face and then marries Rose.
- Revenue agent Tom Mallory, newly stationed at the U. S.-Mexican border, wagers that he can bring a gang of rum and gun runners into U. S. territory. Disguised, he arrives in a Mexican village, the rendezvous of the cutthroats, and leads them across the border into his trap by provoking each desperado into angry pursuit after him.
- A cowboy named Quicker'n Lightnin' searches for his sweetheart, Helen Harlow, after she is abducted by Mowii, a notorious renegade. Morella, a Native American girl, informs Lightnin' and his friend, Al McNutt, that Mowii has taken Helen to his hideout in a deserted Pueblo village. Along the way, they learn that Morella's father has been murdered. Mowii and his gang capture the group, but Lightnin' escapes and instructs Morella's lover, Truxillo, to send the sheriff with a posse. Following a heated battle, most of the gang members are captured. Lightnin' comes to the rescue as Mowii's mother, known as the Squaw, is about to sacrifice Helen to the sun god. He grabs the arrow and impales Mowii's arm, then ties him up until the sheriff arrives. Afterward, Lightnin' takes Helen home.
- Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill Jackson, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper, who persuades Ted to sign I. O. U.'s while under the influence of alcohol. Jim, in company with Red Irwin, a tough deputy sheriff, confronts the gambler and forces a confession. Jackson plans a raid on the Calhoun cattle, forcing Ted to be his ally. Dolores, a dancehall girl, overhears the plot and tells Jim, causing Helen to misunderstand his motives. Jim's men capture the bandits, and Ted is forgiven by his father when he is wounded in a fight with Jackson. Jim is reunited with Helen after explaining his relation to Dolores.
- When a bank is robbed, the cashier is killed and suspicion for the murder unjustly falls on Jim Marden. He gives himself up, and his brother, Wally, promises to run down the killer. Wally, who suspects Mike Wesson, the foreman of the Flying X Ranch, of the crime, goes to the ranch and talks to him. While at the ranch Mike meets June Mathews, owner of the ranch, and he falls in love with her. When Wally and June are out riding, they are ambushed by Wesson, and Wally is wounded. One of Wesson's confederates later exposes Wesson's perfidy, and Wally brings the homicidal foreman to justice. Wally then weds June.
- Dad Burns, an aging rancher, writes to his nephew, Wally Blake, whom he has never seen, requesting that he take over the management of his large cattle ranch. On the way there, Wally is framed for a crime and sent to jail; Matt Harris, using Burns's letter to Wally as proof of his identity, takes Wally's place and, accompanied by his sister, Sally, goes to the Burns ranch, passing himself off as Burns's nephew. Wally eventually arrives at the ranch and catches Harris robbing the safe; Harris manages to pin the blame on Wally. Dad Burns is jumped by Jim, and the wily old-timer kills the tramp. Wally is also blamed for this crime. Wally and Harris fight it out on the edge of a precipice, and Wally sends the impostor to his doom. Wally establishes his true identity and wins the affection of both his uncle and Harris' sister.
- Bud Crawford, son of the owner of The Golden Chariot [gold] Mine, from which pay dust is stolen, sets out to apprehend robber and effects his capture, though in danger of arrest himself as a cattle rustler.