The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.

Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.

James Finlayson es un rico hombre de negocios que un día se despierta sin recordar que se ha casado la noche anterior. Su abogado (Laurel) y el mayordomo (Hardy) tratarán de ayudarle a salir de esta situación.

Casi todos los habitantes de una pequeña ciudad de Texas piensan que su comisario es una simple marioneta del todopoderoso petrolero Val Rogers. Pero todo cambia cuando el joven Bubber Reeves escapa de la prisión. Y es que mientras el agente quiere entregar vivo al fugitivo, Rogers desea que le mate, pues teme por la vida de su hijo, que ha tenido una aventura con la mujer del fugitivo.

Kile Hadley, un magnate del petróleo, y Mitch Wayne, su mejor amigo y empleado, se enamoran de la misma mujer: la secretaria Lucy Moore. Kile, que es un alcohólico irresponsable, se casa con ella, aunque Mitch está convencido de que con esta boda Lucy comete un gran error. Al cabo de un año, contra todo pronóstico, Kyle parece un hombre nuevo: ha dejado de beber y presta más atención a sus negocios.

Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.

Resigned to a life of sadness and regret at his hideous treatment of his wife many years ago, Trevor, an aging ex-con, spends his lonely life walking his dog and staying out of trouble. One morning he stumbles upon Melissa, a woman desperate, afraid, and operating on a knife's edge of panic. She's killed her abusive husband and is frantically trying to bury him. Sizing up the situation, Trevor recognizes the pain in her eyes and sees a way to save Melissa, and to redeem himself in the process. But the price of freedom and redemption will be higher than either of them could have ever imagined...

Fox Rich, matriarca indomable y abolicionista actual, se esfuerza por mantener unida a su familia mientras lucha por la liberación de su esposo encarcelado. Una historia de amor íntima, épica y poco convencional, filmada durante dos décadas.