Hidden Genre Gems In Alignment with the style of Fit to Win: Cult Guide

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

Advised by his doctor to take a vacation, New York banker Henry B. Boltwood and his flapper daughter, Claire, drive to Glacier Park. Claire has promised to give an answer to Jeffrey Saxton, who wishes Claire to marry him, upon her return, but during a stop in a small Minnesota town, it is love at the first sight of garage owner Milt Daggett. Milt follows the Boltwoods out of town in his small "bug," pulls them from a muddy ditch, and rescues them from a tramp (an escaping murderer?). Jeffrey is at Glacier Park to meet the Boltwoods, but he settles Claire's dilemma by showing himself a coward when the tramp returns. Milt rescues her, and the two are married.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State Legislature. Darrow discovers that Sprague is a crook and threatens to expose the candidate unless the senator agrees to switch his support to him. Babs opposes Darrow's decision, fearing that it will ruin his promising law career. Determined to defeat Darrow, she promotes the candidacy of the village pauper, Hank Dawes, and contrives an elaborate campaign based upon the slogan that Dawes' election would remove him from the welfare rolls. Dawes wins the election, but Darrow is consoled with Babs's love and the senator's support of his law career.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

A beautiful and intelligent horse is carried off North after his master, a Confederate soldier, is shot and left for dead. After many unusual and cruel adventures, Beauty is discovered by his former master and returned home to the South.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

A schoolgirl elopes with a young man, but her father has the marriage annulled and takes the girl off to Europe to forget the boy. A couple of years later, the girl and the man she now hopes to marry encounter her ex-husband and his new wife at a society party, and difficulties arise.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

A newspaper reporter, Phyllis Dale, tries to help get her younger sister "Bobby" out of a scandal situation, and soon finds herself mired deep into the same situation.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of finding and buying a particular blue vase to prove he can handle a challenging job in China.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

"A story of romance and adventure in a picturesque little Cape Breton fishing village".

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers: Mary Lee gets the facts; Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful, syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.