Must-Watch List in the Vein of Song of Love: Cult Guide

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Si Jenks plays a village actor who has a limitless repertoire, including all the roles from the old-time thrillers. He leaves his home town in search of a career, but finds so much opposition that he finally returns - to be jilted by his sweetheart.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

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

Concerning the efforts of an enterprising man to sell a cottage. The cottage is on wheels and he moves it from place to place, picking desirable locations, receives his deposit money and then hooks on his Ford and drives off.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers. Aunt Pearl would like Bonnie to marry small-town capitalist Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie is in love with young lawyer Art Binger. Binger eventually effects a release from prison for Mr. Day just at the height of Bonnie's business career.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Tea: With a Kick! perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Charles Murray and son find themselves in love with Widow and her daughter, Char lot to Mineau, and Mario Provost. Charming romantic scenes "between George Bolgor, the son and Marie Prevost. Romances of both seem to progress favorably until both decide to present their sweethearts with bouquets which happen to be identical. Father seeing son giving his bouquet to widow for her daughter mistakes act and thinks boy is making love to the lady of his choice. Innumerable misunderstandings follow which when cleared up pave way for big misunderstanding which starts when Ford sterling, an adventurer arrives at country hotel where parties are vacationing. Sterling has just had adventure with matrimonial agency, having married a client and deserted her and her son. They follow him to country place arriving just in time to prevent his marriage to charming widow who is not only pretty but wealthy. Boy at first mistakes his victim, he never having seen his step father and administers a terrible beating to poor Charles Murray who has arrived with a little gift and broken heart to wish the widow a happy life. Son is played by Eddie Gribbon and he makes due apology to Murray and proceeds to drag sterling out to merited fate, leaving Murray to resume his suit, and win the widow, while charming Marie is married in double wedding to her gallant lover, Bolger.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

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

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

Lonesome Luke, a plumber's assistant, is informed that he has won the Throttlemush mansion in the lottery. Just then the whole place blows up and the hero is relieved of his burden.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Louis J. Gasnier

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Dir: Erle C. Kenton

The most unpopular man in the world, the income tax collector, is thrown out of a train window, into explosions, through the mouth of a cannon, fed to the lions and still survives