A Man in the Open (1919)

Sailor Jesse shipwrecked off the Texas coast naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler Because the sheriff believes in his innocence Jesse finds work as a cowboy but soon becomes infatuated with Polly the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks and marries her When he learns that Polly married to win a bet Jesse attempts to take her from the towns influences to open spaces but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go