The Global Archive For Devotees of Alias Mike Moran: Cult Guide

Dir: James Cruze

When Mrs. Rolles (Farrington) insists that she will not have Austin Bevans (Reid) as a son-in-law, he insists that she will. But when his aunt dies and leaves Austin a girl's boarding school in her will, Austin gives up his suit of Susie Rolles (Bains) and decides to run the school.

Dir: James Cruze

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Too Many Millions perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Walsingham Van Dorn, a rather unsuccessful book agent, is stunned to learn that he has inherited forty million dollars from his two uncles. Van Dorn asks his attorney Wilkins to handle the responsibilities entailed in managing the fortune and then retires to his mansion. One evening, however, he is awakened by a young woman named Desiree Lane, who refuses to leave until the two million dollars that his uncles swindled away from her father is restored. Van Dorn tries to return the money but discovers that Wilkins has stolen it and fled. Van Dorn and Desiree set out to find him, but when the hotel in which they have stopped for the night burns down, they are left standing in the street clad only in pajamas. To avoid a scandal, they marry and happily settle down. Two years later, Wilkins, unable to handle the fortune, returns it, but the young couple wonders whether they will continue to be happy as millionaires.

Dir: James Cruze

An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols.

Dir: James Cruze

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Terror Island perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

About a boob who put his town on the map by selling fake oil stock. For Gus didn't know an oil well from an oil stove, so the two crooks had easy pickings. Until the well started to spout.

Dir: James Cruze

Young scientist Anthony Osgood is engaged to Persis Meade, who has postponed their marriage several times after becoming interested in an overseas hero through Red Cross correspondence. Meanwhile, gambler Lorenzo Pascal stumbles upon the hero's suitcase and goes to Persis' home impersonating him. When Anthony calls and finds his fiancée in another man's arms, Persis explains that he lacks pep. This sends him to dancer Jeanette Adair for help in making him over. Under Jeanette's tutelage, Anthony embarks upon a career of jazz parties and succeeds in changing his image. Discovering that her hero is a fraud, Persis tries to go back to Anthony but she is too late, for he has fallen in love with Jeanette.

Dir: James Cruze

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Gasoline Gus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.

Dir: James Cruze

Heeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his desperate friend and hops on a train. Upon his arrival, Jones discovers that his cargo has been purloined in transit, and while attempting to replenish his supplies by bargaining with the local bootlegger, is detected by the local sheriff. To escape arrest, Jones impersonates reformer Anthony Goodley but his ruse takes him out of the frying pan and places him in the fire when some troublemakers decide to disrupt his lecture on the evils of tobacco. Matters are further complicated when Goodley's old maid fiancée begins to focus her attentions on the disguised Jones. After several harrowing brushes with the crowd, Jones escapes with his fiancée, Cissy Smith, leaving the real Goodley behind to face the music.

Dir: James Cruze

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Sins of St. Anthony perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more a part of gangland than he, but with similar reasons for disguising herself.

Dir: James Cruze

Jack Temple adores his wife, but she remains extremely jealous of him. At an ice-cream parlor, Jack is attracted to a flirtatious vamp and meets her again later on a department store's roof garden. They linger so long that the store closes and the couple are locked out for the night. The next day, realizing that his wife will not believe the truth, Jack tells her that he spent the night with his friend, John Brown. Mrs. Templeton, suspecting that this is a lie, wires John Brown to come. Jack then convinces his friend Frank Fuller to pose as Brown, but the real Brown, who is Mrs. Temple's Italian hairdresser and is secretly in love with her, arrives on the scene. Brown's wife follows in a jealous panic. Then the vamp appears and confesses that she is actually Mrs. Temple's cousin, who hatched the whole scheme to cure her cousin's jealousy.

Dir: James Cruze

A light-hearted romantic adventure.