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Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A plain waitress mistakes one impulsive kiss for her long-awaited entrance into the glamorous world of romance.
A shy paper-box worker arrives at her Saturday dance with a glamorous escort and suddenly becomes the center of attention.
A proud former Confederate officer is offended when an actor turns his old-fashioned manners and clothes into a theatrical sensation.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Two snowbound prospectors educate themselves with very different books, then put their new knowledge to work in a small Montana town.
A talkative sheepherder takes a job on a lonely Texas ranch where a notorious train robber may be hiding nearby.
A timid pharmacist helps his rival elope with the woman they both love by preparing a very questionable love potion.
Jeff Peters explains the ethics of graft after teaming up with a burglar and a ruined financier in a town with one tempting bank.
Two confidence men corner a flood-bound town, but their monopoly faces an unexpected challenge from inside the partnership.
A sidelined cowboy asks his camp cook for pancakes and hears the wild story of a recipe, a romance, and a very successful deception.
Two bungling kidnappers discover that their captive is far more trouble than the ransom is worth.
After a daring train robbery, two partners must decide who gets the only horse capable of carrying them away.
A mountain couple arrives at a makeshift court demanding a divorce, only to discover that separation may be harder than marriage.
A grieving Irishman treats a palmist’s predictions as a treasure map and pursues the stranger meant to bring him luck.
