Hidden Genre Gems In Alignment with the style of Alexandra: Cult Guide

Dir: Curt A. Stark

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Curt A. Stark

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Curt A. Stark

Inge, an orphan, is employed by a well-to-do fisherman in a small village. As is customary, she is treated as one of the family. Jan, the son of the fisherman, falls in love with her and wins her. His mother has other aspirations for her boy. The girl's lover is approached by his neighbors, who engage in smuggling, and is told he can make money by joining them. He yields and casts his lot with theirs. Inge, seeing them leave in their motorboat to meet a smuggling vessel, requests to be taken along and is granted. The contraband goods are no sooner removed from the vessel to their motorboat than they are pursued by the revenue men. The young fisherman and his companions have barely landed when the revenue cutter overhauls them. The young men escape among the cliffs and are pursued. Meantime, Inge has escaped with the motorboat and signals the smugglers from the water. By her assistance the smugglers escape the revenue men and return. Jan is informed by his father of the receipt of a letter from the magistrate of the place, calling attention to Jan's engagement to his daughter and that it is only because of the engagement that he has refrained from foreclosing a mortgage on his home. Alarmed by the threat, Jan's father takes him to the magistrate's house and plans for a speedy marriage. Meantime, Inge informs Jan's mother he has promised to marry her, and she is an expectant mother. Infuriated, the old woman turns her out of the house. The poor girl seeks refuge with her aunt. Jan refuses to have anything to do with her, even when the baby is born. The day of the wedding arrives. Jan is driving his father and mother to the magistrate's house. Inge tries to stop him and listen to one last plea. He refuses and strikes her with his whip. Inge goes to the revenue inspectors and tells them of the cave where the smugglers store their goods, revealing the guilt of Jan. She soon repents this and informs one of Jan's friends that the revenue men are on his trail. Arriving a few minutes before the revenue men at the magistrate's house, the friend warns the bridegroom-to-be and the wedding guests see with consternation Jan leave in haste, while the final words of the ceremony are yet to be pronounced. Inge meets Jan, takes him to a sail boat, and together they escape. Pursued by the revenue cutter, they fail to stop and Jan is shot down. Left without anyone at the tiller, the little boat is capsized, and the girl and her betrayer drown in each other's arms.

Dir: Curt A. Stark

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Curt A. Stark

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Curt A. Stark

Haskell Brown takes up the promotion of the "Golden Nugget" Mining Company, and staking his honor on the proposition advises all his friends to buy stock in it. One of them, Robert Truesdell, a wealthy manufacturer, not only invests heavily himself but recommends the purchase of the stock to his workmen. A flood of orders for the stock is the consequent result. No sooner is the company successfully launched than Brown gives a reception to his friends who have invested in it. At the reception are Truesdell and George Thurston, the latter being the fiancé of Marietta, Brown's daughter. At the height of the merriment Brown receives a cable from the manager of the mine to the effect that the mine shows a two million dollar deficit. Overwhelmed he retires to his room and kills himself. The next day Brown's house is mobbed by the angry workingmen who have lost their all. Truesdell stands by Marietta in her distress and promises to pay every cent the men have invested. Thurston deserts Marietta now penniless, and Truesdell takes the forlorn girl under his wing and later marries her. Five years later the Truesdells are happy in their little home with the daughter that has been born to them. By dint of hard labor Truesdell has paid back every cent to the persons who invested in the defunct mine at his advice. Like a serpent there re-enters into their Eden Thurston, now returned from the far east. Seeing Marietta's beauty his old infatuation returns and he treacherously revives the old love in the girl's heart. She confesses this to her husband, and obtains a separation from him. Finding out too late the fickle nature of Thurston, and the broken hearts he has caused, she visits upon him a terrible vengeance which she expiates by a term in prison. To her, sick and hopeless, comes Truesdell and in his arms she finds forgiveness.