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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

Pete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian, are each in love with Kate Cregeen, an innkeeper's daughter. Pete is rejected by the girl's father and leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune. When Pete is reported dead, Kate is saddened yet relieved, for she really loves Philip. But Pete returns with enough wealth to overcome the father's objections. Obedient to her father, Kate weds Pete, hoping for the best.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and contributions of Chinatown sightseers, until Tom, reading about a deaf, mute, and nearly-blind supposed faith-healer called the Patriarch, living upstate, plans to take greater advantage of the public's gullibility. and Rose poses as the patriarch's long-lost niece and the Frog fakes a cure, when a real crippled boy, inspired by seeing the Frog's contorted limbs healed, walks for the first time. When news spreads and other cures occur, the gang collects much money, but gradually, each member, influenced by the Patriarch and the country atmosphere, changes for the better. The Frog becomes a widow's adopted son, while the Dope falls in love. When Rose almost falls for a millionaire, Tom overcomes his murderous jealousy and, renouncing his past, declares his love. After the Patriarch dies, Tom and Rose marry.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while working on the libretto of a great opera, she skips across the roofs and brings him a Christmas banquet. The poet sees Marjorie, and knowing that he detests wealth, she pretends to be the secretary of the Caner family. Marjorie volunteers to type his libretto, and a close intimacy grows between them. Tony wins a $10,000 prize for his work, but is enraged when he discovers that Marjorie is an heiress. Morris Caner, mellowed under his daughter's tutelage, comes to the rescue by feigning financial ruin, and manages to reconcile the two lovers.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A fanatical Boer farmer mistreats his young wife.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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.