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Class 8 — Dramas 143
REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER
8082 Code SASI The Battling Fool C.B.C.
Featuring Eva Novak and William Fairbanks In the little town of Fairview live Mayor Hiram Chadwick, his daughter Helen, Reverend Josiah Jenkins, his son Mark, and Jerry Sullivan, proprietoi of a pool hall and an old-time prize fighter. Mark is in love with Helen, and one day hearing a town loafer make a disparaging remark about her, he thrashes him. The encounter is observed by Sullivan and is interrupted by the mayor who indignantly threatens to run Sullivan out of town, and also orders Mark to keep away from his house and his daughter.
Sullivan has been so impressed with Mark's fistic ability that he urges him to become a prize fighter saying that he can use the money earned to pay his way thru college. Mark does so and becomes a noted fighter. Meanwhile, he loses track of Helen and does not know that she has been injured and cannot recover without a spinal operation, which her father will not aflPord. Mark finally hears of it on the very day of his biggest fight in which he is to meet the champion. He rushes for his car and drives to Helen's house, carries her oiT to the city in spite of her mother's protests, sends for a surgeon and then goes to the fight in time to avoid losing it by default. He fights desperartely. feeling that the money will pay for Helen's operation and at last knocks out the champion. Then news comes that his apartment is afire. He rushes to rescue Helen, and succeeds just as the spectator is about to have heart failure from the excitement. But the story comes out all right, and ends as such stories properly should.
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8083 Code SASO The Hoosier Schoolmaster Hodkinson
Featuring Henry Hull and Jane Thomas A remarkable characterization of the famous story by Edward Eggleston depicting rural life in Indiana about ten years before the Civil War. Ralph Hartsook, the new Schoolmaster from the East, reports to Jack Means, Chairman of the School Board, and learns that he will have to "board around." He hegins at Means' home where he soon makes a firm friend of Bud, the elder =on, and learns to avoid the other members of the family, namely. Old Mis' Means and her daughter Mirandy. Hannah Thompson, an orphan, has been bound out to the Means family and does all their house work. Ralph discovers that she is superior to her employers. At the annual social event, the Spelling Bee, Hannah spells down even the schoolmaster, and he falls in love with her.
At about this time the neighborhood is becoming aroused over a number of highway robberies. Ralph, who is entirely innocent, falls under suspicion and is accused of having committed one of the robberies. He escapes from the mob that wants to lynch him, and runs to the Squire to whom he surrenders and of whom he demands a trial. He pleads his own case, but is having diflRculty when Bud who has done some independent investigating comes to his rescue, and to the amazement of all in the court demands the arrest of Dr. Small and Pete Jones, Ralph's most vindictive accusers, who later confess.
In the course of the trial the prosecution had tried to use even Hannah's Select plenty of alternates