Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of The Girl Angle: Cult ...

Dir: Edgar Jones

A man of great physical strength is inclined to be a bully and get what he wants by brute force. Through a ruse, the girl he loves is made by the villain to shackle him to a post in his cabin. The villain then kidnaps the girl. By brute strength the hero pulls the post down, causing the house to fall on him. Extricating himself from the ruins he overtakes the villain and in a fight throws him over a cliff. This has the effect of sobering him and he realizes that there is something else in life but brute strength.

Dir: Edgar Jones

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Rich Man's Darling perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Julie Le Fabrier, a romantic young model in Madame Swan's dress shop, immediately falls in love with Lee Brooks after seeing a photo of the young millionaire in the paper. Soon afterwards, Julie is sent to the Grand Tides Hotel to deliver a dress to Madame Ricardo, an attractive young woman whose bills are paid by Lee's love-struck father, Mason Brooks. Having seen her husband, whom she believed to be in South America, on the grounds, Madame Ricardo deserts the hotel, so Julie dons the gown and masquerades as Mason's mistress. In the dining room, she meets Lee, who, hoping to interrupt his father's expensive affair, ardently woos "Madame Ricardo" and marries her. Mason, furious at Lee for "poaching on his father's preserves," rushes to the hotel. Meanwhile, Lee learns that Madame Ricardo already has a husband and deserts Julie, whom he still thinks is the madame. In the end, the mistaken identities are explained, and while Mason frees himself from the wiles of Madame Ricardo, Julie finds herself the happy wife of a rich man's son.

Dir: Edgar Jones

The "the girl" can't make up her mind which man she loves, the three men decide to play a trick on her.

Dir: Edgar Jones

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

A big company is trying to get some land held by squatters. One of the lumbermen sides with the settlers and remains to help fight their battles. He is assisted by the school-teacher, but the remainder of the inhabitants are listless and down-hearted. He finally wakes them up, and when the lumbermen return, after licking their leader, reveals the fact that he is the new president of the lumber company.

Dir: Edgar Jones

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edgar Jones

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edgar Jones

A mail-order bride arrives at a Maine lumber camp but doesn't like her prospective husband.

Dir: Edgar Jones

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

A Mountie searching for known moonshiners falls in love with the sister of a man associated with them.

Dir: Edgar Jones

A confirmed grouch with a past lives in a frontier logging camp. He meets the man who has ruined his life, and drags him to the woods to kill him. He is arrested for murder, but proves that he let the man go, and is finally re-united with his wife and baby, whom the villain had stolen.

Dir: Edgar Jones

Mary Lane and her cousin Claiborne want to sell some land left to them by their family. Real-estate agent Roland Manning falls in love with her, and prepares a deal that will make money for both of them. However, shady land speculator Wade Dempster plots to get Claiborne drunk and swindle him out of the land. In order to get the honest Roland out of the way, he has him framed for a murder that Wade himself committed. Things look hopeless for Roland.