Masterpiece Selection that Capture the Essence of One Week: Cult Guide

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

It's all there - the deserted mother with her child in her arms, followed all around by a fiendish wicked snow storm, the heroine lashed to the rails by the scoundrelly villain, the young woman fastened to the buzz saw of a lumber mill and about to be reduced to mincemeat. And hist. The wicked villain with a mustache and cigarette - the noble hero and the persecuted heroine. There are two drunks sitting in one of the boxes of the theater, who get so excited that they insist upon helping out the action of the melodrama. In the middle of the play, the head scene shifter gets jealous of his wife, who is the leading woman of the show, and drags her from the stage. Nothing, if not resourceful, Ben rushes down into the audience and kidnaps a beautiful young woman to play the leading woman's role. Then comes a startling climax, when the snow storm is shut down by a queer accident. And an equally tragic catastrophe jazzes up the ocean when a storm and a submarine play at cross purposes.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of East Lynne with Variations perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.