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"Plot summaryAdd synopsis Taglines Out on the trackless desert was her husband- dead or alive? She knew not which. Her lover was accused of his murder."

Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.

Top Cast

  • Anna Case

    Anna Case

    Helen Merrill

  • Charles Richman

    Charles Richman

    Charles Taylor

  • Emma Campbell

    Emma Campbell

    Mrs. Collins

  • Forrest Robinson

    Forrest Robinson

    Judge Blake

  • Grace Reals

    Grace Reals

    Mrs. Blake

  • Thomas J. McGrane

    Thomas J. McGrane

    Bill Sheridan

  • John Charles

    John Charles

    George Reed

  • Frank Wunderlee

    Frank Wunderlee

    Jake Codby

  • Fred Hearn

    Fred Hearn

    'Snipe' Roach

Overview

Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.

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