Will Machin

1849년, 기독교 교리를 따르는 캘리포니아 변두리 마을에 정착한 ‘패트릭’은 성실한 장의사 겸 목수로 주민들에게 신임을 얻고 있다. 평화롭던 어느 날, 무법자 ‘더치 알버트’가 마을에 술집을 열어 도박과 매춘을 일삼으며 매일 밤 피바람을 일으키기 시작한다. 시체가 쌓여갈수록 ‘패트릭’의 돈벌이는 늘어가지만 이웃들의 의심과 ‘알버트’ 무리의 압박이 심해지고, ‘패트릭’은 되돌릴 수 없는 파국으로 치닫게 된다.

Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, "May you always have everything that you want."

In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.

When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah

Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they're trying to pin the blame on Snow. Snow escapes from them and leads them on a death-defying escape over a chasm.