Steelheart

Ethel Kendall arrives at a mining town in search of her husband and is rescued from "Butch" Dorgan's disreputable cabaret by Frank Worthing, a declared woman-hater, and delivered to a respectable lodging. Worthing promises to see Ethel to her destination safely and makes an enemy of Dorgan. In a neighboring town, Ethel and Frank visit an engineer friend, and while examining a mine shaft they are trapped by a slide instigated by Dorgan's men. With death before them, Ethel and Frank confess their love; then, believing her husband to be dead, she marries him after they are saved. Dorgan and Colter, the latter an alias for Ethel's first husband, are killed in a gun battle, and all ends happily.

A silent film from 1921 about a determined protagonist facing challenges and adversaries, directed by William Duncan.

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