The Definitive Guide Inspired by the Vision of The Martyr Sex: Cult Guide

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Jimmy, a prizefighter of considerable prowess, earns an easy living by betting on his opponents and intentionally losing. He is reformed by the exacting influence of his girl friend, Ruth, and retires from the ring. Jimmy's sudden honesty arouses the suspicion and enmity of his manager, placing him in considerable danger.

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

A drifter is befriended by the owner of a lumber camp, and repays his benefactor by foiling a plot of timber pirates.

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Mr. Norris owns the general store in Deer Point. Business is poor because prospectors have struck no gold in the district, and Mr. Norris closes down on credit purchases, selling only on a strictly cash basis. John Kingdon, a confidence man, buys a half interest in the shop. In collusion with an Indian he launches a false report of a gold strike. Business booms, the stock of Deer Point's general store being entirely sold out, presumably on a credit basis. Norris's pretty daughter and Phil Barton's sweetheart repulses Kingdon's advances. As a result, Kingdon tells the disappointed prospectors that Norris started the false rumor to boom his store's business. Kingdon's Indian confederate, however, recognizing Barton, Miss Norris's fiancé, as the man who once saved him from a lynching party, exonerates Mr. Norris and exposes Kingdon as the person responsible for the false report.

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

A wealthy Wyomingite disowns his son, Wayne Sturgis (William Fairbanks), for marrying art student Joan Prescott (Dorothy Revier). After several years on a small farm, Joan begins to suffer from disillusion, unhappiness, and poor health. The marriage is nearly ruined by the attentions that Monte Brett (Gladden James), a neighbor, pays Joan. Wayne struggles to make good and is eventually rewarded when his father forgives him and welcomes the young couple home.

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A criminal gang gains the confidence of a superstitious San Francisco millionaire Lorenzo Hayward by posing as clairvoyants. Having acquired his power of attorney, the swindlers then kidnap the millionaire's daughter Helen. Dick, a young man in love with Helen sets out after the kidnappers and, after a wild chase up and down the hills of the city, rescues her and brings the criminals to justice.

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

The daughter of a white father and an Eskimo mother is taken to be raised in the U.S. after her father is murdered by members of the tribe who were jealous that he had married an Eskimo woman. When the daughter grows into adulthood, she returns to her village, determined to find and punish the people who killed her father.

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George Benton returns home from college after having forged a check, and his older brother, Adam, sacrifices his life savings to save George from jail. George soon weds Elsie, an orphan who lives on the Benton farm; but shortly after the newlywed couple leaves the farm on their honeymoon a girl arrives on the farm and identifies herself as George's first wife. Adam rushes to the cabin where George and Elsie are staying, and the brothers fight. Adam is knocked senseless, and George, who thinks that he has killed his brother, rushes horrified from the cabin and falls over a cliff. Adam regains consciousness and rescues George. George reforms and makes good with his first wife; Adam marries Elsie.

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

A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters into adventures and danger in various corners of the globe.

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A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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Spanish Don Guzman de Ruis y Montejo, living quietly in his Madrid hacienda, determines upon a rich marriage for his daughter, Ynez, rather than letting her be courted by Rodrigo, a Gypsy chieftain. Papa takes his daughter to the Riviera, where Ismid Matrouli, a wealthy Levantine of mongrel origin, asks Ynez's father for her hand. However, at a garden party, Ynez meets an American military attache named Captain Grant Lee Brooke, and the two are love-struck at first sight, especially after he rescues her during a swim in the Mediterranean. Matrouli sics a professional swordsman on the captain, but the American socks him in the jaw. The inevitable duel between Brooke and Matrouili follows, but Roderigo takes a pot shot at the captain and hits the Levantine instead. Roderigo then kidnaps Ynez and carries her away to a mountain stronghold, but the captain follows and rescues her. Her father gives the couple his consent to marry.