is set in a Missouri farming community beset by North-South tension in the days after the Civil War. A stranger comes to town, stays with a South-sympathizing family, helps out with farming tasks, and falls in love with the daughter. Pressed to reveal his wartime affiliation, he reveals fighting for the North. Eventually, he reveals his connection to the family’s oldest son, who went off to war and never returned.
follows a slum kid from paper boy to light-weight boxer with “lucky” right-handed punches. In a last-minute mismatch, the boxer unintentionally kills his opponent in the ring. Dubbed “Killer McCoy” by the media, he wanders aimlessly, returns to boxing with the help of a shady gambler, falls in love with the gambler’s daughter, contends with a drunken, selfish father, and uses his right-handed power punch to win three bouts in a row.
