Fred O'Beck

The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the West, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and uncouth man of the West, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the West, frequent.

4 juillet 1759. Le comte de La Tour, marquis de Valmorin meurt en laissant sa fortune à ses lointains descendants puisque son testament ne pourra être ouvert que 200 ans plus tard. Pour ne rien arranger, sa fortune écherra à celui de ses descendants qui sera atteint d'une maladie incurable. 200 ans plus tard, le 4 juillet 1959. Les descendants du marquis arrivent des quatre coins du monde pour assister à l'ouverture du fameux testament. À l'annonce de la clause que seul un malade incurable bénéficiera de la fortune, les héritiers potentiels vont user des stratagèmes les plus invraisemblables pour être celui qui touchera le jackpot.

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.

Arthur Housman gets invited into a ranch house.

John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the news to Mr. and Mrs. Daly and their daughter Lottie. They do their utmost to dissuade him from his purpose, but John has made up his mind to go. He gets employment in a department store. Soon he is promoted to a slightly higher position. He has become neglectful of his country friends, and Lottie waits in vain for an answer to her letters.