Hidden Genre Gems for Fans of Shadows of Her Pest: Cult Guide

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 Merchant of Menace 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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Henry Lehrman

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Neighbor's Keyhole perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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

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 Double Dealing perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Harry Willis returns to Helen Hendon discouraged by his failure to make a fortune in 6 months as he promised. Accepting a job that will pay him $10,000 for following instructions for a day, Harry soon finds himself in a series of adventures that include an imbroglio at a costume ball, a doctor's attempts to transplant a gorilla's brains into his head, and a brawl in a temple with some Chinese who want a small idol belonging to him. When he applies for a marriage license, Harry discovers that these incidents were created to test his capacity to become a movie star. He wins both Helen and a movie contract.

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 A Ringer for Dad perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

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)