The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

38 -THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY When the evangelist's daughter arrives Buck Conlon turns ''Hell's Kilchen^^ into a gospel parlor. See— "The Knockout Man" CAST: Buck Conlon Jack Perrin Bull Barrett Jim Corey Parson Rhodes C. W. Herzinger Molly Rhodes Louise Lorraine gUCK CONLON, a two-fisted, roughand-ready cowboy of the Trinity cattle ranges of California, who would rather fight than eat and never misses a chance to "take on" a. scrap whether the odds are against him or not, rides into Covelo, one time "hell's kitchen" of the cow camps, on a day when its cowpuncher population is enjoying a rowdy, free-for-all mix-up in the main street. Bull Barrett, the bully of the cow camps, is out of the free-for-all fight, but is looking on. Conlon jumps into the scrap for the love of the fihting game. Things are going pretty, with Buck hitting right and left and generally becoming the center of the fray, when an evangelist drives into town behind a pair of thin horses and seated in an old prairie schooner turned into a gospel wagon. The wagon bears biblical inscriptions. With him is his pretty daughter Molly who with her father looks with concern on the fighting mob of men. Buck stops the row as the wagon draws opposite the crowd and orders the men to take oflF their hats with him. All obey except Bull Barrett and Buck sends his sombrero spinning in the dust. The "gospel wagon" passes on and the fight is resumed. Bull sneaks into the crowd of fighters and hits Buck a blow behind the ear. Buck recovers and fells Bull. The vision of tl\e evangelist's pretty daughter lingers with Buck and he gets "the boys" to help turn the town hall into a meeting place for "the Parson." Buck becomes a regular patron of the parson's meetings. The evangelist preaches a sermon ,the text of which is "Whosoever shall smite thee on one cheek turn to him the other also." Buck takes the old minister's text literally and from the proud, unconquered hero of the cow camps becomes an abject, forlorn, slinking figure whom everybody from Bull Barrett down takes advantage of. Molly, seeing her one-time hero the scorn of Covelo, fir.st is disappointed and then loses her respect for him. Not until Bull Barrett and his gang raid the gospel meeting and Bull carries Molly into a saloon does Buck come to himself. He rescues Molly, knocks out Bull, cleans up his gang and reinstates himself with the girl. £'/7e>en of pcfsfcex/c^ >n."THe DIAMOND QUEf.N .4 'j/\//vef>SAi s^aMi. "THE DIAMOND QUEEN" Episode No. 13 "Weird Walls CAST: Doris Eileen Sedgwick Benson Al Smith Bruce George Cheseboro Zeidt Frank Clarke Martin Harvey Alfred Fisher Zimba Al Smith Aline Earle Josephine Scott ^ORIS is imprisoned in a secret den in Chinatown. Bruce is rushed to the county hospital, where sn imme diate operation is found necessary to save his life. In his secret laboratory Doris' grandfather works with Tim at the mysterious discovery, but they are torn with anxiety over Doris, from whom they have not heard. Zimba, the African half-ca.ste who is devoting his life to Doris' service, discovering that Bruce is in the hospital, ru.shes to him with the news that Doris is held prisoner somewhere in the Mandarin. At the same time "Shadow" Kelly, an underworld character who has resolved to go straight for the sake of Aline Earle, who lies in the same hospital as Bruce, comes to her with similar news. Bruce, defying the hospital internes, who fear for his life, gets up, quickly clothes himself and leaves with Zimba to rescue Doris. The Third Degree At the Mandarin cafe Bruce and Zimba, in disguise, see Benson come in through a secret door behind the cashier's beaded-curtained compartment. Benson has been putting Doris through a brutal "third degree" in an effort to wrest from her. her secret, but Doris is adament and Benson has threatened to carry out his original scheme of torture — this time using the girl instead of Bruce. After Benson leaves the cafe, Bruce and Zimba, maneuvering into a good position at the cashier's window, where they appear about to pay their checks, suddenly cover the Chinese cashier with guns. Bruce forces his way through the secret door and pursues a Chinese who is dashing to warn Doris' captors. Zimba meanwhile holds at bay the Chinese horde aroused by a signal from the cashier. At a hidden door in the wall of a long hall Bruce closes on the man he is chasing in time to wedge his foot in the crevice and prevent the closing of the secret door. A strange battle is staged, Doris being spirited from room to room through secret panels as Bruce fights his way after her. Between Two Fires Zimba meantime has been worsted and overpowered by his foes who pursue Bruce. Bruce is now between two fires. During the fight in one room, when Bruce is striving to get into the compartment beyond, where Doris is struggling with a single Chinese captor, Bruce is precipitated against another secret panel, which flies open, and he sprawls out into a long, narrow hall, at the end of which is a door. Doris meantime drags down some hea\"A portieres on her captor, but from where he lies he traps her between secret panels that slide forth from the walls of the room as he touches a secret switch, and then, at a further touch of a switch, she is precipitated through a trap door that suddenly opens and falls into the blackness of a pit below.