Cinematic Discoveries Following the Footsteps of Speed: Cult Guide

Dir: Melville W. Brown

Mr. Wygate, a wealthy businessman, is rising in social circles and decides his daughter Geraldine must become more refined and so hires Eddie Able to educate her. Eddie soon falls in love with her, but she has eyes only for a well-known lawyer and young man-about-town, Bellsworth Cameron, who has shown little interest in her. Suffering through his unrequited love, Eddie works to make Geraldine the ideal society lady, and to capture the interest of Cameron. Eventually Cameron starts seeing her but his true colors are shown when Geraldine is arrested in a speakeasy, and Eddie rescues her.

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Melville W. Brown

An architect, constantly in trouble with his employers, falls for the boss's niece. When he spontaneously buys a taxicab to take her home on a rainy night, the purchase leads to more trouble.

Dir: Melville W. Brown

Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness." Woodbridge, in love with Grace Tyler, a fickle debutante who cannot take him seriously because of her infatuation for Sumner, follows Sumner's instructions to rest in the country and take quantities of distilled water administered by Virginia Moore, Sumner's nurse. Because Virginia is in love with Sumner she complies, hoping that his weekend visits will give him love sickness. Grace Tyler's arrival, and her insistence that Sumner marry her, complicate matters. The situation is resolved when Sumner admits that love cannot be cured; he marries Virginia and encourages Bud to marry Grace.

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

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley

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

Dir: Melville W. Brown

Tom Barrett, a motion picture press agent, noting Frances Norcross' resemblance to film star Daphne Dix, offers her passes to the star's personal appearance. While waiting for her fiancé, Johnny Young, Frances is offered $1,000 to impersonate Daphne and successfully appears in her place, assuaging the fears of Myers, a producer, who knows Daphne is with millionaire Harmon on a yacht. Reporter J. Q. Adams has his suspicions aroused and sends a cub reporter to impersonate Daphne's husband. At Daphne's apartment, Adams arrives and presses Barrett for an interview with the star. Frances is confronted by the reporter and manages to bluff her way; Harmon arrives to ask forgiveness, and he is followed by his wife, then Johnny, both demanding explanations. Frances exchanges places with the real Daphne, and, after she explains, all ends happily.

Dir: Melville W. Brown

A man hopes to win a girl by winning a motor race.