Cinematic Discoveries Following the Footsteps of Red Hot Dollars: C...

Dir: Jerome Storm

Luther Green goes to war in France in 1917. When he comes back to his family home in New Jersey, he has a surprise following him: a beautiful French girl named Nina.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Ben Trimble, a country boy visiting the city, becomes involved with a safecracker and finds himself sliding into a life of crime. But chance provides him with an opportunity to redeem himself.

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

Dir: Jerome Storm

A rural youngster uses the strength he has developed handling egg crates in a shipping office to carry him to success in the boxing ring.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Socially prominent but nearly penniless Easterner Mrs. Bereton, marries her daughter Avice to wealthy cattleman Barton Masters. Before the ceremony, Avice promises Dr. Fortescue Van Fleet, with whom she has been carrying on a flirtation, that her marriage will mean nothing, but after she moves to Barton's ranch, she comes to respect her husband deeply. When the wedding party, consisting of Van Fleet as well as Avice's mother and brother Billy, visits the ranch, Van Fleet attacks Avice in her room, but Barton catches him and turns him out. The next day, Barton sends Avice's relatives home and compels her to work on the ranch. She is resentful until Van Fleet returns and shoots Barton, seriously wounding him. At the point of a gun, Avice forces the doctor to tend her husband's injury, and after Barton's recovery, she devotes herself to him.

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

Dir: Jerome Storm

Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.

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

Dir: Jerome Storm

A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge?

Dir: Jerome Storm

A bumbling would-be detective always seems to reach the wrong conclusion, but one day accidentally stumbles across a real crook, guilty of a real crime.

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

Dir: Jerome Storm

Salesgirl Marion Hoyte, unlike the other members of her family, seeks to better her situation; hence, when she accidentally becomes acquainted with young architect James Lodge, who clears her of the charge of stealing a customer's purse, Marion accepts his attentions. Leroy, a suitor for Marion, and her sister Bertha object, but Marion soon becomes engaged to James. Shipley, a financier, plans that James will marry his daughter, Gwendolyn, and will be engaged to plan the new state capitol building; but when Marion and James are married, Shipley withdraws his support and Marion is snubbed by James's social set. Determined not to ruin her husband's career, Marion arranges a fake elopement with Clifford Trent. However, Marion learns that James has been injured in a western mining camp, soon she goes to his aid; and through this twist of fate their love is reawakened.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Cuthbert Trotman wants to be a writer. He becomes the protege of wealthy Harry Travistock, who shows him the ways of the big city. But Harry's girlfriend Anita begins to take more of an interest in Cuthbert than in Harry.