Hand-Picked Alternatives for Fans of Stolen Honor: Cult Guide

Dir: Richard Stanton

Bob McGuire, Royal Northwest Mounted officer trailing a ring of opium smugglers, suspects gambling house proprietor Big Bill Lusk. Lusk's plan is to frame McGuire by drugging him and marrying him to Katie Peck, a dance hall girl who knows the plot. McGuire's superior officer is killed, and McGuire is accused of the murder; but Katie, who has fallen in love with McGuire, discloses that Lusk is the murderer and exposes the smugglers' plot.

Dir: Richard Stanton

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Why I Would Not Marry perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

After four men have proposed to Adele Moore, a beautiful young woman whose father wishes her to marry for financial reasons, she is undecided as to the one she prefers and decides to consult a fortune teller. Gazing into the crystal ball, Adele witnesses an enactment of the life she would lead with each one of them and is shocked to find every marriage ending in heartache. The lawyer proves faithless, the banker steals money, the doctor neglects her, and the poor clerk suggests that she sacrifice her honor to his threatening employer. Dismissing all of them, Adele moves to Vermont and opens a store. Business is slow until a passing salesman assumes management of the store and transforms it into a booming success. Happy at last, Adele agrees to marry him.

Dir: Richard Stanton

Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.

Dir: Richard Stanton

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

During the French Revolution, Englishman Sir Percy Blakeney is considered to be a terrible fop, completely unaware of the seriousness of the political situation abroad. In reality, Sir Percy is a hero to the French aristocrats and is known as "The Scarlet Pimpernel." His wife, Lady Marguerite, shares the opinion of most that Sir Percy is useless, until his heroism is proven when she discovers his secret identity. In Calais, Sir Percy is able to elude Chauvelin, a member of the new French government, even though Chauvelin threatens the safety of Lady Marguerite's brother, Armand St. Just. Lady Marguerite goes to Calais to aid her husband, and they finally are able to escape on a ship bound for England, assured of their love for each other.

Dir: Richard Stanton

a young man gos on a weekend hunting trip; soon finds out that instead of being the hunter he has become the hunted .. in a desperate quest for survival he must battle a savage hunger Beast

Dir: Richard Stanton

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

An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an attempt to abscond with a list of undercover German operatives.

Dir: Richard Stanton

In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the situation and believes Bill to be unfaithful to her. She breaks her engagement, and Bill, in remorse, goes to Alaska. In the town of Yellow Gulch, Bill meets "Silver" Jack Belmont, the man responsible for nearly ruining the marriage of Bill's friend. Bill also learns that an old miner named "Lucky" Matthew Durant is Evelyn's father. Durant has been lying to his daughter, claiming he is rich. Bill tells Evelyn the truth about her father, but she does not believe him. Instead, she believes Belmont when he says he will take her to her father's mine. Eventually, Bill and Belmont confront each other and Bill defeats Belmont in a fight. Bill then reconciles Evelyn and her father.

Dir: Richard Stanton

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

This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows him from boyhood to his present high command, and the story of his life tells why Pershing was selected to lead the American forces overseas and how he has his own personal account to settle with the ruthless Hun.

Dir: Richard Stanton

John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

Dir: Richard Stanton

Gambling-house proprietor Lionel Jamieson, whose brutality has caused his wife's paralysis, removes his stepdaughter Betty from a convent to use her as a lure for customers. Lionel's young employee Tommy is a good friend to Mrs. Jamieson and soon falls in love with Betty. With the assistance of stable hand Gunga Din, Tommy trains his horse, Thunderclap, for a racing event. At the gambling house, a customer is cheated out of $40,000 and threatens to kill Lionel unless he repays the money within 24 hours. Lionel's friend Foster agrees to help, provided that his horse wins against Thunderclap. Upon learning that Tommy will need to cross a bridge while transporting his horse to the racetrack, Lionel plots to blow it up, killing both Thunderclap and his owner. However, Gunga Din suspects foul play and ensures their safe arrival. Tommy then rescues Betty from kidnapper Wah Leong, returns to the track, and rides Thunderclap to victory. Lionel is killed by the man he cheated, and the shock restores Mrs. Jamieson's mobility.