Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of I Believe: Cult Guide

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The blind husband of an Italian doctor's mad ward 'sees' her brother murdered during a trance.

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

The story of a happily married woman, Amy, who is greeted with temptation of riches beyond belief after her husband, Andrew, accepts a position at a Colorado Steel Mill.

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A typist exposes a group of businessmen as German spies plotting to blow up a bridge.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of 0-18 or A Message from the Sky perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A man poses as a boxer to impress a barmaid and is forced to fight the champion.

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Mabel plays Arabella Flynn, a shop girl who mistakenly thinks she is an heiress. She gets in a jam on a spending spree only to discover that she actually is an heiress and can marry the heir of a corset manufacturer.

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

A Lord's mob kills the cleric who sought to save the soul of a beloved actress.

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A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.

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

Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally pursued by Nancy Barron, whom Christine dislikes. Ned Klegg loves social secretary Barbara, and resents the attention paid her by Barron, Nancy's elderly husband. Nell Martin, a servant in the Hollins home, is in love with the gardener but is persecuted by the butler. Aviator Mulvain and his mechanic Le Prim arrive, and Le Prim absconds with Nancy in an auto, pursued by Mulvain and Christine, who force him to release her. Christine announces her engagement to Mulvain, who declares he is a poor man. In the resulting commotion, it transpires that Nell, threatened with exposure, has drowned herself. The shock brings a change of emotion: Barbara rejects Barron and accepts Klegg, and Christine accepts Mulvain, content to share his poverty.

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A detective who secretly heads a gang of jewel thieves loves an actress engaged to an Earl's son.

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With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.