Underground Favorites Parallel to the Artistry of Dimples: Cult Guide

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A guide teaches a rich man and his spoiled daughter a lesson in the Maine woods.

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

James Sheridan becomes wealthy and a power in a Middle West city, where his entire life is absorbed in the turmoil of his own creation. The only thing he lacks is social standing, and this he strives to gain by methods he has successfully employed in driving a business deal. His two oldest sons, Jim and Roscoe, like him are products of the turmoil, but the youngest, Bibbs, is a weakling with a penchant for books. The father insists on Bibbs working in the factory, but as it is distasteful to him, and he is physically unfit for the task, his health fails and he is sent to a sanitarium. In the same city lives the Vertrees family, poor, but true aristocrats, and Sheridan determines that his son Jim should marry the young daughter Mary, and thus make a wedge for the family into social prominence. He arranges a big dinner, with a vulgar display of luxury, which Mary Vertrees is compelled to attend because of a financial obligation Sheridan holds over her father. That night she is made to understand that she is to marry Jim, and she concedes to make the sacrifice. At the height of the dinner party Bibbs returns from the sanitarium but the family ignores him and Mary is attracted to him out of pity. Middle son Roscoe is unhappily married to Sibyl; like his father he is lost in the turmoil of endeavor, and she is obliged to seek companionship elsewhere. She becomes infatuated with Robert Lamhorn, a worthless young man who is secretly engaged to Edith, the only daughter of the House of Sheridan. Jim proposes to Mary Vertrees, and she asks him to wait a while for her answer. Sibyl and Edith quarrel over Lamhorn, and Sibyl, knowing Mary's hold over the elder Sheridan, asks her to go to him and tell him that Edith and Robert are engaged and that Robert is only marrying her for her money. Sibyl's words remind Mary that she will be doing the same thing if she marries Jim. She writes Jim a letter refusing his offer of marriage. Much to his father's delight, Jim has built a large warehouse in half the time contractors said was necessary for the undertaking. Accompanied by inspectors, Jim is on the roof of the building when it collapses, and he is killed. Sheridan is brokenhearted over his death; his sorrow is doubled by the fact that Roscoe, worried over "domestic affairs, has taken to drink. He then strives harder than ever to make Bibbs a thorough businessman, and his successor. Edith elopes with Robert, and Bibbs is the only one left to him. Bibbs has become attached to Mary, and on her advice agrees on a business career. She loves him, but thinks his attentions are prompted through pity for her. She refuses his proffer of marriage for the same reason she refused his brother. When Bibbs learns this, he quits his place with his father, and he informs him he does not want any of his fortune. Sheridan awakens to the situation, and pays Mr. Vertrees $50,000 for some worthless street railway stock. Mary's family thus becomes financially comfortable, she accepts Bibbs' renewed proposal of marriage, and he becomes the leading spirit in the Sheridan enterprises.

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Mary Lane and her cousin Claiborne want to sell some land left to them by their family. Real-estate agent Roland Manning falls in love with her, and prepares a deal that will make money for both of them. However, shady land speculator Wade Dempster plots to get Claiborne drunk and swindle him out of the land. In order to get the honest Roland out of the way, he has him framed for a murder that Wade himself committed. Things look hopeless for Roland.

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

The "the girl" can't make up her mind which man she loves, the three men decide to play a trick on her.

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Jilted on her wedding day, Maud Wainwright becomes a confirmed man-hater. Homesteading in the Southwest, she ignores the attentions of both bandit "Three Gun Smith" and Sheriff Steve Kennedy. When Smith's gang accidentally knocks over Maud's cabin, the men take her to Smith's cabin while they rebuild her dwelling. There, Maud discovers a mail pouch and believing that it was stolen by Smith, reports him to the sheriff, who persuades her to assist him in arresting the bandit. After Smith is captured, Maud discovers papers that prove he is actually a secret service agent and that the sheriff is the real bandit. Riding to Smith's rescue, Maud prevents him from being lynched at the hands of vigilantes and then proclaims her love for him.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Three and a Girl perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A Mountie searching for known moonshiners falls in love with the sister of a man associated with them.

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A girl's brother has an ungovernable temper. After an outburst of great vehemence, the hero persuades the girl to elope with him. They are followed by her brother. A pious man, known as the Mediator, tries to hold him while the pair seek to get away. It develops that he is the girl's father. In the melee a lamp is overturned and a forest fire results. The old man, without disclosing his secret, leads them to safety but the brother perishes in the flames.

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

Henry Warburton, who is compelled to wait 9 years before coming into a willed inheritance, retires to the backwoods and marries Nola, a girl with no refinement or social graces. At length, his friend Grant Hamilton visits him, sees in Nola possibilities to which Warburton is blind, and "kidnaps" her. Hiding in a cottage, Nola is educated by Hamilton and a governess while Warburton searches in vain for her, mystified by frequent notes advising him of her progress, the last of which tells him of a daughter's birth. A year later, Warburton returns to New York where he meets Hamilton and Nola; amazed at the transformation, he is happily reunited with his wife.

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The doctor is in love with the girl and, as her father's consent and presence is required, this is obtained by sending the old man across the stream on a rope railway, but not allowing him to land before he gives his consent to the wedding which is all planted on the opposite shore.

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A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.