Desc: Out of Luck: Directed by Edward Sedgwick. With Hoot Gibson, Laura La Plante, Howard Truesdale, Elinor Hancock. Cowpuncher Sam Pertune (Hoot Gibson) strikes the father of the girl he loves, Mae Day (Laura La Plante), in self defense and, thinking he has killed him, runs away and joins the U.S. Navy. Learning the man isn't dead, Sam wishes to resign from the Navy but is told he is out of luck. But luck shines on him when, with his ship in port, Mae visits her aunt in San Francisco who is married to the captain of Sam's ship.