The Definitive Guide Inspired by the Vision of Five Nights: Cult Guide

Dir: Bert Haldane

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

The life of Queen Victoria.

Dir: Bert Haldane

A framed man breaks jail in time to save his sweetheart's ruined father from being drowned by his cousin.

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

Dir: Bert Haldane

A goldsmith's wife becomes the king's mistress to save her husband's life.

Dir: Bert Haldane

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of From Gutter to Footlights perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An Italian street dancer rises to stardom and is shot by her jealous lover.

Dir: Bert Haldane

In France, a captain and a countess save the Emperor's secret papers.

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

Dir: Bert Haldane

A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.

Dir: Bert Haldane

An aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.