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Bill Hollister organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler joins the train when it leaves for Gold Hill, and takes command when Hollister is killed from ambush. Jacques Frazelle, formerly Hollister's second-in-command, schemes to get rid of The Rambler and win Sue Smith. He plots with Lynch to disrupt the train, but The Rambler beats him in a whip-fight...

The Duchess and her nephew Red Ryder set out to pioneer a new stagecoach line through the wild, rough country leading to Desert Springs, a small, isolated town. To ensure the customer base for the new line, they bring with them a wagon train of prospective settlers who want their own land and have the cash to pay for it. Red and the Duchess are unaware that their letter to John Larkin, Desert Springs' hotel owner and land agent, has been intercepted by Dave McKean and his henchmen. McKean has intentions of letting Larkin complete the land deals, then he and his gang will steal the money. Arriving in Desert Springs, McKean and Co. are startled to find the town completely deserted (because of a rumored gold strike elsewhere), with signs that all of the citizens pulled out in a hurry. Seeing this as even a better opportunity, McKean sets up himself and his men as the town's officials and await the arrival of the prospective pigeons. An added subplot involves newlywed Arlie Adams, a member of the wagon train, being blackmailed by Lunsford over an earlier scandal and, while she was innocently involved, still doesn't want husband Bob Adams to learn of it.

Robert, the judge's son is a vacillating young man. Helen, his father's ward, is devoted to him and he sincerely desires to make her his wife. An old flame, Dorothy Deane, an actress, writes him asking him to call and say good-bye, prior to his nuptials. She is playing with a great success at a city theater and he calls on her in her dressing room, where he meets a merry company and all repair to a roof garden. The judge and Helen happen to attend the performance and drop in at the roof garden for refreshment. Revelry is high when Helen detects her intended in the actress' company. His father, a very stern man, reproaches him for his conduct and soon arriving home drives him from the house. Three years have passed. Robert has married the actress and a child has blessed them. His father's help being gone, the little family suffers terrible privation. One day his wife departs leaving a note saying she will return to the stage. In desperation, seeing his child hungry, he resolves to go to his father and ask his help. When he calls the judge is counting a sum of money and refuses to listen to him. He departs but shortly returns to rob the desk. Helen, by a clever ruse, surprises the son in his work and, broken by shame and remorse, he kneels at her feet. The woman's love cannot be stifled and she resolves to help him. She calls at his squalid home and eventually reconciles the judge to his repentant son.

Caroline, a wealthy woman from Vancouver moves to Quebec and gets a job at an art gallery. She becomes romantically involved with Marc, a French actor when her former college boyfriend Peter shows up and asks her to return home and marry him. Caroline is indecisive and decides to put off choosing between her 2 suitors as long as possible. Perfectly content to allow her lovers to become rivals, neither can usurp her father's position as the most important man in her life. When he announces his plans to marry one of her girlfriends from college, Caroline immediately flies back to the west coast to attend his engagement party. Marc and Peter, frustrated and fed up with her games, follow her to the party for a confrontation.

In the Scotch Highlands a game warden's beautiful daughter loves "Sandy" a rollicking young fellow who by continual poaching on the game preserves keeps the wardens constantly in action. The warden's assistant, a rejected suitor, determines to frustrate the love making of his rival and being gradually worked to a frenzy of jealous hatred, resolves to remove him by "fair means or foul." "Sandy" has several narrow escapes. One day in the woods he is caught in the act of trapping hares by the warden, his sweetheart's father. A quarrel ensues. In his excitement the warden attempts to use his gun. It is accidentally discharged. The old man falls dead. "Sandy" is horrified and thinks himself the unfortunate cause. The assistant has witnessed the struggle from behind a tree and aims at "Sandy," but fate decrees that the guns should both be discharged at the same time and he becomes an assassin. The old woman whom "Sandy" has befriended has witnessed all this from where she was concealed and keeps her secret, in terror of the ways of justice, until circumstances afford her an opportunity of bringing the real offender to his deserts.

After Schuyler Rutherford's divorce from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, his sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her sculptor friend Mary Carter, who offers her a job as her secretary. While working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her. Kathleen's plan succeeds, and then, to spite Robert, she announces her engagement to wealthy Murray Van Allan. After a series of incidents, Robert makes Kathleen realize that she really loves him and, after forgiving him, she agrees to be his wife.

Prince Sebastian of Lurania is forced to go into hiding when German forces invade his country. His niece, Countess Therese, is an ambulance driver with the French army, and one day she hears from her uncle, who requests that she meet him in a small town in Maine and bring the crown jewels with her. Unfortunately, a jewel thief finds out about the meeting and makes a deal with the Luranian pretender to the throne: he will steal the jewels and he can keep them if he kidnaps and turns over the Countess to the usurper.

A young musician (played by Heikko Deutschmann), a recent arrival from Hamburg, lives in a Berlin attic, works in a slaughterhouse, and spends his time wandering through the streets and expanses of the foreign city, taping sounds, collecting impressions. One night he listens to the British group, the Blurt, at the Loft on Nollendorfplatz and meets a photographer from London with whom he spends some time before she returns to England.

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...

About Ingo Hasselbach a.k.a. "Führern from Berlin". During the early 1990s, Hasselbach was one of the most well-known neo-Nazi leaders in Germany. The blonde eloquent Ingo constantly figured in the media. But what made Ingo Hasselbach famous in every small German town was when he abandoned the movement.

Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the "liquidation" of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them. He lures him with the picture of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid The Bloody, which he has bought in the auction house 'Leo Jansen'. Secret connections consist between Wano and the old man of uptown Rotterdam, who presumably finances this terror-attack.

A woman confesses to her fiancee that she was involved in a scandalous incident with a former fiancee. After marriage, her past threatens to destroy their lives.

The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.

"War Between the Planets", (aka "Il pianeta errante" and "Planet On The Prowl"), tells the story of when the Earth is scourged by floods, earthquakes and disasters... until a space station discovers a fiery unknown planet heading for a collision to destroy all humanity. Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.