FREE MOVIE · LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The fighting American

"To win a drunken bet, all-American Bill Pendleton proposes to beautiful Mary Brainard. When she learns of the wager, the humiliated girl leaves school and sails for China with her missionary father. Realizing he has just lost the girl of his dreams, Bill hops a freighter, determined to find Mary. He arrives in China in the midst of a bloody revolution, and learns that Mary and her father are captives of the…

Public domain — the Library of Congress knows of no copyright restrictions for this film. Source: Library of Congress, National Screening Room · archive record. Video streams straight from the archive; PatchTV does not host or relay it.