S1.E9 ∙ Passing Muster: Part 1

The struggle of the Caucasian Turks against the Tsar. The Caucasian Turks had to fight with the Tsar army to protect their land. Commander Boris tortures the people by burning Turkish villages. Sheikh Shamil, who leads the Turkish army, has to surrender to protect the Caucasian Turks.

After the Hungarian War of Independence was lost in 1849, a poor puppet maker named Jeromos and his wife Augusta help war orphans by giving them work, food and housing. But life is hard and food is scarce. When one day a mysterious man appears in the workshop ordering 50 human size straw men, Jeromos is overjoyed. But who is this man and why does he need the straw men?

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.

"Dan Claibourne ( Tim McCoy ) refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid." "Motion Picture News Booking Guide," in Motion Picture News, 15 Apr 1930.