Visionary Picks In Alignment with the style of One Touch of Nature:...

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

Soon to become a mother, Beatrix Franklin (Lois Wilson) persuades her husband Pelham (Holmes Herbert) to go on a cruise. He becomes acquainted with May Beamish (Flora Le Breton), who tries, unsuccessfully, to capture him. Upon hearing of the attentions paid to her husband, Beatrix provokes a quarrel and separation by staying out with Alec Greenwood (Allan Simpson), a former admirer. The vamp seeks to force Pelham to divorce, but she is triumphantly outsmarted by Beatrix.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

A schoolgirl elopes with a young man, but her father has the marriage annulled and takes the girl off to Europe to forget the boy. A couple of years later, the girl and the man she now hopes to marry encounter her ex-husband and his new wife at a society party, and difficulties arise.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

When Marion Roger's love affair with Cameron West is broken up by her disapproving mother, Cameron develops an infatuation with flirtatious debutante Diana Spaulding, while Marion still harbors an unrequited love for Cameron. Cameron marries Diana, who retains her flirtatious nature, and while at a party one night, Marion overhears Diana plotting to run away with playboy Granville Wingate. Determined to protect Cameron, Marion hastens to the lovers' appointed rendezvous before Diana arrives and persuades Wingate to abandon his plan. Returning to the house, Marion attempts to shield Cameron from his wife's disgraceful behavior, but Cameron, finally realizing his wife's nature and his love for Marion, obtains a divorce and is thus free to marry the woman he loves.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer. She obtains an engagement through Stephen Ross, who arranges for her training. Meanwhile, unable to pursue his education and reduced to the breadline, Sascha attracts the attention of a wealthy philanthropist, Josef Marinoff, who takes an interest in his idea for a home for immigrants, and through Marinoff's aid he and Marya are reunited.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State Legislature. Darrow discovers that Sprague is a crook and threatens to expose the candidate unless the senator agrees to switch his support to him. Babs opposes Darrow's decision, fearing that it will ruin his promising law career. Determined to defeat Darrow, she promotes the candidacy of the village pauper, Hank Dawes, and contrives an elaborate campaign based upon the slogan that Dawes' election would remove him from the welfare rolls. Dawes wins the election, but Darrow is consoled with Babs's love and the senator's support of his law career.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

Advised by his doctor to take a vacation, New York banker Henry B. Boltwood and his flapper daughter, Claire, drive to Glacier Park. Claire has promised to give an answer to Jeffrey Saxton, who wishes Claire to marry him, upon her return, but during a stop in a small Minnesota town, it is love at the first sight of garage owner Milt Daggett. Milt follows the Boltwoods out of town in his small "bug," pulls them from a muddy ditch, and rescues them from a tramp (an escaping murderer?). Jeffrey is at Glacier Park to meet the Boltwoods, but he settles Claire's dilemma by showing himself a coward when the tramp returns. Milt rescues her, and the two are married.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

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

Ruth Hoagland grows up on an island off the Massachusetts coast with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return. She offers to divide the chests with Strong and Arbuthnot, but after Strong discovers they are worthless, he withdraws his savings, and gives Ruth money to develop her voice in New York, saying that it came from selling the chests' contents. After Ruth learns of Winthrop's affair with a musical comedy star, she returns to the island to prepare for her Broadway debut, where she discovers Strong's sacrifice.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward H. Griffith

Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers: Mary Lee gets the facts; Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful, syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.