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scheme to win it wherein he will get arrested and jailed for the entire year period, thus making it impossible for him to be arrested more than once. To accomplish this, he stages a fight in a bar, during which he demolishes the interior. After his arrest, the judge only sentences him to six months behind bars, so James Jr. insults him, resulting in the judge adding six months for contempt of court. While in jail, he befriends a bank robber, Charles Miller.
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successful operation. However, Katherine Fowler, the daughter of the local banker, Henry Fowler, has also taken an interest in James Jr., and is jealous of the success of Ethel's inn. She gets her father to foreclose on the inn. Using the $ 25,000 he won from his father, James Jr. opens his own bank and saves the day. When James Sr. arrives in town, he is quite pleased with the progress his son has made and blesses his marriage to Ethel.
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also enjoyed the picture, stating that it was "the best vehicle Mr. Lytell has had for some time". They felt, "It is the way he goes about it, the manner in which he accomplishes his tricks, the intensely humorous situations which result from his actions, the inimitable refreshing personality of
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After his release from jail, he is traveling cross-country when he gets stranded in a small town. He becomes besotted with a local innkeeper, Gertrude Shelby, whose inn is failing. He takes over management of the inn, and utilizing the water from a spring on the property, turns the inn into a
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