Masterpiece Selection Resonating with the Themes of Marrying Molly: Cult Guide

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

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

After removing their respective valuables, a pair of supposed crooks, male and female, find each other out and fall in love.

Dir: William Beaudine

Bobby has been in the air service but has never got off the ground. He is induced to take the place of an American "ace" at a home party. Things become complicated when his host introduces him to an airplane that he has just purchased.

Dir: William Beaudine

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

Bobby is a rival for the hand of a damsel who has a parent who objects to suitors for his daughter's hand. Then Bobby decides to join a college fraternity over which his rival presides as master of ceremonies. In his initiation Bobby does a lot of crazy stunts which get him into trouble. However, by carrying them out as per instructions, he gains the good will of the fair maiden and irate father and receives official sanction to become a son-in-law.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Eat-a-Bite-a-Pie perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A wife is given to feeding wandering knights of the road despite her husband's warning that one may molest her. To teach her a lesson, he hires a tramp to steal the silver. When the police, summoned by the husband, arrive, the silver has been restored by the hobo to the wife for her kindness and she learns that the fracas is a frame-up, but forgives the prime mover in restoring her husband to favor.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Apartment 23 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Bobby's chief aim is to prevent his rivals from making love to Florence by making them believe, through various tricks, that her hair and other necessities of life were false, thereby almost losing her himself.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A young fellow desires to cure his girl of a bee in her bonnet that she wants to be a missionary to the Cannibal Islands, so he forces one of his pals to impersonate a native and lodges him at the home of his intended.