The Definitive Guide Deeply Connected to Shifting Sands: Cult Guide

Dir: Albert Parker

Aviator John Leslie meets Diane Du Prez in Canada when she tries to take shelter from a storm, but has to return home after learning of her father's death.

Dir: Albert Parker

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

A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.

Dir: Albert Parker

A woman runs away from an arranged marriage. Her father finds her and plans to send the man to the same rooming house so they might fall in love. Plans go awry when a police reporter accidentally assumes his place while on a case.

Dir: Albert Parker

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

During World War I, John Stevens invents an anti-submarine device, but the plans are stolen by two German spies, the Baron von Wiederholtz and Madame Elsa, who flee to a New York hotel. Stevens' daughter Alice pursues the spies hoping to retrieve the plans. Also lodging at the hotel are Howard Skeele and Margaret Worth, childhood friends whose parents are forcing them to marry with threats of disinheritance. In attempting to escape, Howard finds himself in the baron's suite just in time to spy the German in the act of hiding the plans. Howard directs Alice to the plans, and then, because he must be wed before six o'clock that evening or lose his inheritance, he proposes to her. They marry with Margaret's blessing, the spies are arrested, and Alice returns home with the plans and a husband.

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On the island of Jamaica, a young man of promise, Clifford Standish, is slowly sinking into an alcoholic debauchery. He meets a good-hearted woman called Ginger who leads him back to sobriety and society. But when they return to England together, they find society not worth living with.

Dir: Albert Parker

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of From Two to Six perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Young lawyer Billy Dow vows not to marry a woman who has more money then he does, which causes problems when his girlfriend inherits a million dollars from an aunt she has never seen. In keeping with his promise, Billy breaks up with her. Desperate to get him back, she turns over the money to George Frayne, an "investor" with a long record of losing money for his investors, in hopes that he will lose all of her money and Billy will take her back. Complications ensue.

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Ruth Sawyer discovers that her mother has an ill-savory past and decides to withhold this information from the man she loves. But a crooked pal of Ruth's mother shows up with blackmail in his plans.

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

In a prologue, Douglas Fairbanks appears in a chef's outfit mixing a cake with action, mystery, adventure, romance and comedy, seasoned with pep and ginger. The finished cake is The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. The story begins as buoyant Teddy Drake, expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and leaping over furniture, decides to reform his selfish impulses. Anxious to do "something for somebody," he boards a train bound for the Southwest. After helping an old woman off the train, Teddy takes the wrong train and meets Manuel Lopez, a Mexican bandit, going to visit his sick mother. To hide Lopez from a crooked sheriff, and because Teddy left his shirt in the first train, Teddy exchanges clothes with him. At the border town of Sonora, the sheriff chases Teddy along the roofs until, seeing a girl in jail, Teddy lets himself be arrested. Learning that the girl, Rita Allison, has money hidden that the sheriff wants to steal, Teddy escapes. After Lopez saves him from a lynching, Teddy finds the money, holds off the sheriff's gang until a U.S. Marshal arrives, and then returns to New York with Rita, now his fiancée.

Dir: Albert Parker

Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.

Dir: Albert Parker

Young Anne (Winifred Allen) who lives with her stern uncle, is considered strange by the gossips of her village because she spends much of her time in the woods, where she has imaginary conversations with her deceased mother. When Jimmy (Dick Rosson), a crook is wounded after a robbery, he eludes the sheriff by hiding in a deserted mansion, unaware that the mansion is said to be haunted. The spirit haunting the mansion is Anne, who befriends Jimmy and frightens away his pursuers by pretending to be a ghost. Soon, the young couple begin a romance, safe within the walls of the haunted house.