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Crooked Straight

Ben Trimble is a country boy who tries his luck in the big city and is swindled out of a thousand dollars by a con artist named Larrabee. This leaves Ben down and out. Then he is befriended by a man who turns out to be a safe cracker. Ben becomes his partner. While in a cabaret frequented by crooks, Ben runs into Larrabee and gets into a fight with him. Then Ben and the safe cracker make plans to rob a bank that night. Larrabee overhears them and tips off the police. In the battle with the police, the safe cracker is shot and mortally wounded. But Ben manages to drag his partner away, and they escape the police. As he is dying, he tells Ben about his farm and his kids. Ben goes to the farm and runs it, and falls for his neighbor, Vera. Even though he tells her about his past, she returns his love. Then Larrabee again appears and tries to swindle Vera's father. To stop the con artist, Ben takes all the valuables out of her father's safe. Vera sees him do this, and mistakenly believes Ben is stealing. But Ben explains what he was trying to do, and the pair live happily ever after.

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Charles Ray
Ben Trimble
Wade Boteler
Spark Nelson
Margery Wilson
Vera Owen

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