Must-Watch List in the Vein of Roaring Lions on the Midnight Express: Cult Guide

Dir: Henry Lehrman

Juan de Dios O'Rourke (Kenneth Harlan), an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce (Patsy Ruth Miller)

Dir: Henry Lehrman

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

Ex-Champion Gale Galen, his trainer and manager advertise for a mother. This brings a deluge of applicants, but only one seems to strike the fancy of the pugilistic trio.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

Round 12 finishes the second of the Fighting Blood Series. Gale's great fight with the light-heavyweight champion of the world comes off and has some exciting details. The long war between the blonde and brunette ends and the latter, Patricia, elopes with Gale in time to have a double wedding as Rosemary marries her director.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

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

A barge fight between Gale and the heavyweight, Red Mack, is broken up by the police.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

The action of the comedy concerns the arrival of Mrs. Newlywed's large and strong-minded family on "a short visit of five or six months." Besides the threats of his pugnacious father-in-law and the destructive habits of his i nephews, Mr. Newlywed's miseries are still further increased by an uninvited cousin, a vaudeville performer, who brings a performing seal with him in a portmanteau. A disappearing bed, which can be pushed out of sight into a rubbish shed, figures prominently in the plot, which terminates in a wild comic mix-up.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

Gale tries his art in social circles - particularly the home of Patricia Paddington, but is snubbed by her father. At the end of an exciting bout Paddington appears and gives the girl her choice of her own home or Gale, the fighter. Gale advises her to go with her father.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property.