The Definitive Guide Deeply Connected to Rupert of Hentzau: Cult Guide

Dir: George Loane Tucker

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while working on the libretto of a great opera, she skips across the roofs and brings him a Christmas banquet. The poet sees Marjorie, and knowing that he detests wealth, she pretends to be the secretary of the Caner family. Marjorie volunteers to type his libretto, and a close intimacy grows between them. Tony wins a $10,000 prize for his work, but is enraged when he discovers that Marjorie is an heiress. Morris Caner, mellowed under his daughter's tutelage, comes to the rescue by feigning financial ruin, and manages to reconcile the two lovers.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A Lord's mob kills the cleric who sought to save the soul of a beloved actress.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A detective who secretly heads a gang of jewel thieves loves an actress engaged to an Earl's son.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A man poses as a boxer to impress a barmaid and is forced to fight the champion.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A student of divinity who is brought back to life is found to have no soul but has it given back to him as a result of prayer.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

The blind husband of an Italian doctor's mad ward 'sees' her brother murdered during a trance.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and contributions of Chinatown sightseers, until Tom, reading about a deaf, mute, and nearly-blind supposed faith-healer called the Patriarch, living upstate, plans to take greater advantage of the public's gullibility. and Rose poses as the patriarch's long-lost niece and the Frog fakes a cure, when a real crippled boy, inspired by seeing the Frog's contorted limbs healed, walks for the first time. When news spreads and other cures occur, the gang collects much money, but gradually, each member, influenced by the Patriarch and the country atmosphere, changes for the better. The Frog becomes a widow's adopted son, while the Dope falls in love. When Rose almost falls for a millionaire, Tom overcomes his murderous jealousy and, renouncing his past, declares his love. After the Patriarch dies, Tom and Rose marry.