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Dir: Charles Swickard

A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.

Dir: Jan S. Kolár

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

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.

Dir: Fritz Lang

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: George D. Baker

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

Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.

Dir: Victor Sjöström

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

Dir: Ludwig Berger

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Spain at the beginning of the 1580s, at the time of Philip II. The troops of the king entered the village of Zalamea. Captain Don Alvaro is quartered in the house of Pedro Crespo and his two children. Alvaro is very interested in the proud daughter Isabel, who, however, shows him the cold shoulder.

Dir: Emmett J. Flynn

In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.

Dir: Gustav Adolf Olsen

In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.