The Definitive Watchlist For Devotees of The House of Hate: Cult Guide

Dir: George B. Seitz

Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.

Dir: George B. Seitz

New York police are investigating the kidnapping of twenty wealthy girls.

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

Dir: George B. Seitz

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: George B. Seitz

The adventures of a gentlemanly crook of astonishing resourcefulness.

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

Dir: George B. Seitz

A Navajo tribe suffers mistreatment by an Indian-hating agent who steals their horses. When WWI breaks out, a teacher convinces the tribe leader that enlisting will lead to better treatment.

Dir: George B. Seitz

After the mysterious murder of John Cowles' father, the son starts west to borrow money of his father's business partner, Col. Meriwether. He meets the Colonel's daughter, Ellen, and falls in love with her, not telling her of his fiancée, Grace Sheraton. Gordon Orme, an old acquaintance, turns up, tells Col. Meriwether about Grace, and the Colonel is so enraged he refuses to lend the money. John's mother and Grace have followed John and his mother urges him to try the gold fields. He discovers gold and wins Ellen, after both Gordon and Grace, who is really in love with Gordon, are killed.

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

Dir: George B. Seitz

Plenty of adventure in the desert with "villains dashing madly across deserts with the lives of both the hero and the heroine at stake, - long underground avenues, trick doors, trap doors, and many ways of the unruly villains to torture the innocent. Allene Ray plays the daughter of a Mohammedan desert merchant, and the discovery that she is really French furthers her romance with the hero. Also featured are archaeological diggings and rescue by the British Army." (Variety-1924)

Dir: George B. Seitz

A crooked lawyer who is the head of a crime syndicate tries to prevent the operation of the ships owned by the heroine. Hutch comes to her rescue.

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

Dir: George B. Seitz

Lost film serial. Only about 2-minute fragmentary segments of this serial about World War One remains.

Dir: George B. Seitz

Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salina, Kansas by wagon train, at the persuasion of Tom Kirby, a government scout and Beth's fiancé. Although Bill Hickok, Tom's friend, and a company of cavalry are in charge, Pawnee Killer, chief of the Sioux, attacks the wagon train, and Halliday and his wife are killed. Bill rides to Salina for help and to deliver the news to Buffalo Bill Cody. Beth, now hostile to Kirby, joins the household of Lige Morris, a trader in Salina, and, at the suggestion of Bill, Kirby joins General Custer's scouting expedition. Lige tells Beth that Kirby is suspected of being in league with Pawnee Killer, but she learns from the post adjutant's daughter that he loves her. Beth seeks out Kirby just as the Sioux stampede a herd of buffalo through the town, and together they find refuge. Custer gives battle to the Indians, Pawnee Killer slays Lige, and the lovers are reconcile.