Must-Watch List Comparable to the Style of The Mollycoddle: Cult Guide

Dir: Victor Fleming

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.

Dir: Victor Fleming

The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous Holdbrook to foreclose on the Los Rosas ranch and make off with the beautiful Nora Shea.

Dir: Victor Fleming

Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

Bruce McDow, son of a skipper, believes he has inherited the cowardice of his father and loses the respect of his associates. Jenny, who loves and believes in him, gets him a job as mate of the lightship, and during an ensuing storm he proves his courage by saving her life and averting disaster to an endangered ship.

Dir: Victor Fleming

Hugh Dillon, a young lawyer, becomes a public prosecutor in New York City, and is soon forced to choose between his idealistic view of duty, and Moria Evans, the girl he loves, under circumstances, that seem to spell the end of his career.

Dir: Victor Fleming

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of When the Clouds Roll by perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage. Carley hears about it and returns to Arizona, arriving on the day the two are to be married. Complications ensue.

Dir: Victor Fleming

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.

Dir: Victor Fleming

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.