The Essential Watchlist Similar Cinematic Experiences to Married Life: Cult Guide

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

The modern Cinderella gets the idea that she would like to go to the ball and accordingly she makes herself an Oriental costume from a lamp-shade and a curtain.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Si Jenks plays a village actor who has a limitless repertoire, including all the roles from the old-time thrillers. He leaves his home town in search of a career, but finds so much opposition that he finally returns - to be jilted by his sweetheart.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Lonesome Luke, a plumber's assistant, is informed that he has won the Throttlemush mansion in the lottery. Just then the whole place blows up and the hero is relieved of his burden.

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

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Charles Murray and son find themselves in love with Widow and her daughter, Char lot to Mineau, and Mario Provost. Charming romantic scenes "between George Bolgor, the son and Marie Prevost. Romances of both seem to progress favorably until both decide to present their sweethearts with bouquets which happen to be identical. Father seeing son giving his bouquet to widow for her daughter mistakes act and thinks boy is making love to the lady of his choice. Innumerable misunderstandings follow which when cleared up pave way for big misunderstanding which starts when Ford sterling, an adventurer arrives at country hotel where parties are vacationing. Sterling has just had adventure with matrimonial agency, having married a client and deserted her and her son. They follow him to country place arriving just in time to prevent his marriage to charming widow who is not only pretty but wealthy. Boy at first mistakes his victim, he never having seen his step father and administers a terrible beating to poor Charles Murray who has arrived with a little gift and broken heart to wish the widow a happy life. Son is played by Eddie Gribbon and he makes due apology to Murray and proceeds to drag sterling out to merited fate, leaving Murray to resume his suit, and win the widow, while charming Marie is married in double wedding to her gallant lover, Bolger.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

The most unpopular man in the world, the income tax collector, is thrown out of a train window, into explosions, through the mouth of a cannon, fed to the lions and still survives

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

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A timid man's domineering wife keeps catching him at what seem in be compromising situations with pretty young women, and she won't believe they're as innocent as he claims they are.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Jack O'Day, a pugilist, is retired because of his mother's antipathy to fighting. He is rediscovered in a steel mill and is drafted to fight the heavyweight "champ", only because he needs money to send his mother to the country. The training starts but O'Day wins the heart of his manager, who had originally tried to frame him, by saving the manager's child who is in danger of death on a railroad trestle.