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(why vote?)   powered by AFI  Blake Cantrell, a Maryland
aristocrat and well-bred cad, uses the occasion of his hunt to
announce his impending bankruptcy. In order to pay his debts,
Blake is forced to sell his slaves, thus incurring the
disapproval of his house guest, Northerner Susan Griffith.
Later, when Blake tries to seduce Susan, she denounces him and
leaves for the Cumberland Gap with her Aunt Amanda, who owns the
Bullet Stage Line there. In Cumberland, Susan meets Captain
Starkey, an old friend of Amanda and manager of the Bullet Line.
To keep the line solvent, Starkey has been renting stages to
Arnold, who claims to be transporting fugitive slaves to
freedom. Soon afterwards, Blake arrives in Cumberland to ask
Colonel Webb, the construction head of the Balti