The Ballad of Billy McCrae

Chris Blythe returns to his home town in Wales after losing a fortune in Canada. Once he was a millionaire; now he is a laborer in a local quarry where his boss, Billy McCrae, is a brutal and much feared man. He falls in love with Billy’s daughter, Elen and Billy takes a shine to him and promotes him. Chris is confident he can handle Billy. He is wrong. Billy dupes Chris over a business deal. And that same day, Chris returns to Elen and finds she has been beaten up by her father. Chris realizes there is only one way to resolve this; and he murders Billy McCrae. On his wedding day, Chris discovers he has been duped by Elen. Billy never beat her; she has duped Chris into killing her father; and now she is a rich orphan. Chris is appalled and tries to leave her, Elen chases after him and in a crazy rage she hits him with a rock. On the day of his own wedding, in sight of his father and mother, Chris Blythe falls to the ground and dies. Murdered by the daughter of Billy McCrae.