Wallace Beery appeared in this silent film with intertitles, a dark drama of hobo life. Jim (Richard Arlen), a wanderer, comes upon young Nancy (Louise Brooks),
who has just killed the guardian who was trying to rape her. Disguised
as a boy, she takes off with Jim and rides the rails to a hobo camp led
by Arkansas Snake (Robert Perry). When Oklahoma Red (Beery)
takes over the camp, he begins to pursue Nancy, but before he can take
her from Jim, the detectives show up to arrest her. He engineers a
daring escape that nearly kills them all, but allows Nancy and Jim to
get away -- but Red is still interested in her, and still following
them; as resourceful as ever, he steals a car and some girl's clothes
for Nancy, to throw the police off the trail, and tries to convince Jim
to light out on his own. When he sees how much they actually love each
other, however, he suddenly decides to let them go. But Red knows that
the police won't give up their pursuit of an accused murderer, unless
they think she's dead -- and he plans one last, very risky ruse to get
the detectives to walk away.