Must-Watch List in the Vein of One Night Only: Cult Guide

Dir: Charley Chase

The Brewsters are at their wits' end to solve the problems of the high cost of living. In an endeavor to reduce their household expenses, they have discharged their cook, but somehow it costs them just as much to live. With eggs at a dollar and ten cents a dozen, butter at ninety cents a pound and milk at twenty cents a quart, the Brewsters find themselves slowly but surely being driven into bankruptcy. Brewster reasons it all out to his own satisfaction. He is paying three prices for his food- to the producer, the wholesaler and to the retail dealer. The obvious way to cut down expenses, according to the Brewster idea, is the farm. Why not be a farmer and live for nothing? It's a great idea, and Brewster proceeds to carry it out in a practical way. He trades his city home for a farm with a cow and chickens on it and begins operations immediately. What Brewster doesn't know about milking cows, raising chickens and doing farm chores, would fill a big volume. Mrs. Brewster's knowledge of farming is on a par with her husband's, so their attempt to make a self-supporting institution out of their farm ends in a fiasco, but a comical one nevertheless.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of When Spirits Move perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Charley Chase

Charlie (West) stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his landlady's daughter.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

Two men on their way home from the club, fall asleep on the curb, considerably the worse for liquor. They dream that they have gone to a land where there are no wives and finally they meet with a bunch of Indians, who lead them a merry chase, from which they awaken to the realities of life when a policeman shakes them.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub's creditors are so insistent that he decides to end it all and let his wife collect the insurance.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Charley Chase

A messenger (Snub) is sent to an artist's lavish estate and so is a competitor.(Boland). They cavort with a bevy of gorgeous, scanty-costumed models, until an outraged husband (Young) arrives to beat up who he thinks is responsible.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

Billy is mistaken for a dangerous Bolshevik, and thrown into jail.

Dir: Charley Chase

A young married couple volunteer to take charge of several orphans after the asylum has burned down. Of course they find their hands full with their troublesome charges.

Dir: Charley Chase

An entire newspaper staff makes great efforts to get the news about a wealthy damsel who has been abducted. After much of the riotous, hero Snub effects the rescue.