Must-Watch List in the Vein of Alone in London: Cult Guide

Dir: Laurence Trimble

Sal Gratton picks Joe Brown over Bill Sproat for her husband. They marry and have a son, and Sproat watches them in anger over the passing years. Sal and Joe come into a fortune and they give their son all the advantages in life, but he turns to gambling and squanders their fortune. He departs to another country and his parents are sent to the poor house, still besieged by Sproat who has also become wealthy.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Far from the Madding Crowd perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A girl farmer weds a faithless sergeant who is killed by her suitor, and realises she loves the bailiff.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

A Marquise objects to her son marrying a cockney, but they reunite on his return from the war.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

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

A doctor cures his wife of brain fever after she stabs her film star lover.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

Joe Holland, the superintendent of a gold mine, saves his invalid friend, Weadon Scott, from a pack of wolves. Frank Wilde, an executive engaged to Holland's daughter, Mollie, buys White Fang, a man-eating dog, from an Indian and matches him with a bulldog in a pit fight. Scott rescues the dog and tames him. After Mollie Holland marries Wilde, she discovers that he is robbing the mine. Mollie tells Scott of Wilde's perfidy, but Wilde escapes, blackjacking Scott and killing Holland. Orphaned, Mollie goes to the home of Judson Black, the owner of the mine. Wilde attempts to spirit her away and is killed by White Fang. Scott and Mollie eventually find happiness together.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Through the Valley of Shadows perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".

Dir: Laurence Trimble

A selfish actress weds her cousin's lover and dies saving her jewels from a fire.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

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

Persuade by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

A wealthy businessman proudly watches as his son begins his own business, a shoe store. However, things start to take a turn for the worst when the father's estranged wife inserts herself into her son's life and a seductive gold-digger tries to get her hooks into the young man. His father must stand helplessly by and hope his son makes the right decisions.

Dir: Laurence Trimble

When Flash's master, Clark Moran, goes out of town on business, Flash, who is part wolf, is falsely accused of sheepicide and sentenced to death by local ranchers. Escaping into the mountains, Flash finds a mate but has to leave his new companion to rescue his master's love, Betty, who has been kidnapped by the real sheep killer, Luther Nash.