The Auteur's Selection In the Shadow of The Brat: Cult Guide

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

Gus Van and Joe Schenck sing a few songs with piano accompaniment.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Van and Schenck 'the Pennant Winning Battery of Songland' perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: James A. FitzPatrick

A Scots lass parts regretfully from her lad as he goes to make his mark in the world. The lad meets an old man who warns him against leaving his beloved. He returns to her and they are married. Then the old man, who loves the girl's mother, asks that she be his wife. Thereafter another marriage is arranged.

Dir: Louis Mercanton

Miarka, the granddaughter of Romany Kate, according to her grandmother, is to marry a gypsy chief-whereabouts unknown. Romany Kate, Miarka and her tame bear, live upon the estate of an old gentleman who tolerates Kate because of his interest in gypsies, and more particularly because he has a gypsy document which he cannot decipher. A gardener, in love with Miarka, robs the master and sets fire to the home, making it appear that Kate is the guilty one. She is convicted but later Miarka's pet bear kills the gardener and he confesses his crime before he dies. Kate, realizing Miarka is in love with the master's nephew, Ivor, takes her away. Later the master tells Ivor that he is not his nephew but was found at the gate when a babe. The document is deciphered by Kate and it discloses that Ivor is the chief whom Miarka had been destined to marry.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.

Dir: Frank Urson

A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Miarka, the Child of the Bear perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Louis Mercanton

A man becomes infatuated with who he believes is a pure and honest woman, not knowing she really is a siren that lures men to the gambling tables to lose all their money.

Dir: Manuel Noriega

A woman who arrives Madrid fleeing from their abusive stepmother tries to help her cousin, who has an illegitimate child, pretending to be the real mother.

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

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Hanns Schwarz

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.