Essential Cult Cinema Drawn from the Same DNA as Stingaree: Cult Guide

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War veteran James Henry "Jimmy" MacTavish returns to his hometown in the West to see his childhood sweetheart, June Carpenter. Despite his penchant for doing good deeds, Jimmy soon finds himself robbed of his clothes and money, and accused of kidnapping a child. Because the townspeople believe he was killed in the war, Jimmy is then jailed as an impostor, while others attempt to claim his inheritance. Jimmy's identity is ultimately verified, the townspeople give him a hero's welcome, and he is reunited with June.

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

Adam, the proprietor of a country hotel, loses his heart to Nell, a soubrette. Unknown to the old man, the girl and his son Jack were formerly sweethearts, but had quarreled because of her refusal to leave the stage. Knowing of Adam's love for Nell, Mason, the leading man, and Eppstein, the manager, induce him to finance the show. This is on its last legs. The members of the company stop at Adam's hotel while in Preston and thus Nell meets Jack again. Upon her refusal to give up the stage, Jack angrily leaves her. When the show departs early next morning, Adam goes with it. Nell is fascinated by Mason and the latter plays her against Clara, who also fancies she loves him. Nell does not know that it is Adam's money which is backing the show. When she does discover the manner in which the old man is being fleeced, she promptly declares her intention of quitting the company. The conspirators vainly plead with the girl. Desperate, Mason and Eppstein kidnap Adam and wire Jack in the old man's name asking him to telegraph $600. His suspicions aroused, Jack determines to investigate. In the meantime, Nell has discovered Adam's predicament. Securing assistance, she rescues him just as Jack arrives. In gratitude, Adam advances enough money to send all the members, with the exception of the plotters, home. Nell, sick of the stage, returns to Preston with Jack and his father. The latter learns of their love affair, and concealing his own love, gives them his blessing.

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Mary Grant, whose husband was killed in the war, has to support herself and her young son Tom by working in a cabaret because her husband's parents disapprove of and won't help her--but they want to adopt Tom. Complications ensue.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Can a Woman Love Twice? perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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A series of 12 2-reel mystery thrillers, each story complete in itself. Episode titles: #1: The Strangler's Cord (1915); #2: The Disappearing Necklace (1915); #3: The Secret Code (1915); #4: The Riddle of the Rings (1915); #5: The Substituted Jewel (1915); #6: A Double Identity (1915); #7: The False Clue (1915); #8: When Thieves Fall Out (1915); #9: Under Oath (1915); #10: _The Wolf's Prey (1915)_; #11: The Man on Watch (1915); #12: The Man in Irons (1915).

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

Jack Dunbar, needing a job, meets millionaire Nicholas Small, who gives him advice and presents him as a colleague. Small would like his daughter, Anne, to marry inventor Gillen Jolyon. Dunbar perfects and successfully demonstrates Jolyon's wireless power transmitting device in spite of Small's attempts to sabotage it, and he rescues Anne when she is caught in an electric power fracas caused by her father's villainy. Anne breaks her engagement with Jolyon and marries Dunbar.

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Young clubman Bob Gilmore is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the male guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and punishes him right there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had actually forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor." He disguises himself and enters many homes, attired in evening clothes, and is soon known to the police as "The Midnight Man." In the meantime he has come into contact with members of the White Circle gang, and has many close physical encounters with them.

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

Dave Allen, secretary to James Pendroy, a wealthy banker, is accused of stealing bonds from his employer. Dave rounds up the thieves, who include one Josef Le Baron, a suitor of Pendroy's daughter. Dave marries the girl.

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Young Barry Adams is determined to marry the beautiful Celia and has continuously proposes to her, only to be turned down each time because she doesn't think he's mature enough to settle down yet. One day he receives a note from a woman who turns out to be an obsessed former girlfriend. What happens next convinces him that he is indeed ready to settle down with Celia.

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The search is on for a bank robber's hidden stash in a house they all say is haunted.