Straight Through

Straight Through

A Failure's Fight Back to Manhood! He tried to do a good deed every day whether folks wanted it done or not. See the thrilling story of a hard-boiled cowboy who became regenerated!

NR 1925 · 50 min · ★ 9.0 · Western

O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.

Directed by Arthur Rosson · Written by Charles Logue

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William Desmond Good Deed O'Day
Marguerite Clayton Denver Nell
Albert J. Smith Granger
Ruth Stonehouse Mary Snowden
Frank Brownlee Bill Higgins
William Gillis Sheriff
George F. Marion Parson Sanderson

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