Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
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Roy Stewart as John Fairbrother
Clarissa Selwynne as Grace Fairbrother (as Clarissa Selwyn)
Joseph W. Girard as Bishop Ferguson
Frank Elliott as Charles Ferguson
Hazel Page as Mace
Frank Brownlee as Editor George Ferguson
Irene Aldwyn as Lily
Maxfield Stanley as Albert
Dana Ong as Lawyer
United States 23 July 1917
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Artist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much distress of course!
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John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
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Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White).
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A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
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