Essential Cult Cinema Drawn from the Same DNA as The Price of Crime: Cult Guide

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

When self-seeking and bad-tempered Judith claims that she loves her sister Felicity's beau, David Strong, he gives her money for her trousseau which she uses to settle in New York City. Under the name of Zariska, Judith establishes herself as a society fortune-teller, counting among her many clients the wealthy Peter Van Dixon and his friend, Paul Vincent. After Judith has returned home to collect money willed to her by her uncle, she witnesses a shipwreck in which the wealthy Mrs. Dorian is killed. Seeing an opportunity to advance in society, Judith steals Mrs. Dorian's papers and jewels and uses them to masquerade as the rich woman. Her deception is a success, and she is about to marry Peter when David appears and exposes her. Deeply repentant, Judith returns home, and Paul, realizing that her better nature has asserted itself, asks her to be his wife.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

Jason, a naive inventor raised in the country, leaves his sweetheart Rose and goes to New York to sell his ideas, but is promptly robbed of his money and his clothing.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

Although millionaire Lorimer Van Cleefe loves Joan Meredith, she suspects that he is having an affair with Mrs. Hilda Herford and decides to elope with Albert Dunning. Joan and Albert register as husband and wife at a country inn, but while they are waiting for the minister to arrive, Lorimer, who has taken Mrs. Herford for a drive, sees the couple at the roadhouse and suspects an illicit affair. Albert learns that Joan's father has lost his fortune and immediately leaves her. Meanwhile, Hilda's husband Lew learns of his wife's presence at the inn and decides to kill Lorimer. To save him, Joan claims that it was she who accompanied Lorimer to the roadhouse, but her honor is saved by a call from the minister, who explains that his car broke down on his way to marry Joan and Albert. This paves the way for Joan's union with Lorimer.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

Olive Sherman's fiancé, Tracy Norton, breaks their engagement when her father dies leaving her penniless, and it is revealed that he had been tampering with his company's funds. After Olive becomes an efficient member of his father's office staff, Norton circulates a damaging rumor about Olive so that his wealthy new fiancée will not think he was only after Olive's money. The subsequent ostracism causes Olive to leave town. Three years later, Olive, having learned how to blackmail, appears as a South American widow in Newport. She wins Norton's confidence with her promise to introduce him into high society, but instead uses a photograph of them together to cause Norton's wife to leave him penniless. Just as Olive is about to marry newspaperman Jim Waldron, whom she befriended earlier when he was a burglar, Jim's mother learns of Olive's past and forbids the marriage. Upon seeing a vision of Christ and the Magdalen, however, she changes her mind and consents to the union.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

Famed writer Hudson Newbrook indulges in the good life so heavily that he contracts a persistent cough. At a Greenwich Village café, Hudson meets aspiring writer Barbara Edwards, and the two fall in love, much to the chagrin of his former sweetheart, Polly Staire. After following Barbara to her New England hometown with the intention of proposing, Hudson visits his doctor, who informs him that the children of such a marriage would inherit his illness. Learning that Polly shares his disease, Hudson bids farewell to Barbara and returns to New York to face the future with the woman who truly loves him.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

The Civil War breaks up the long-standing friendship of two old Southern families, the Appersons and the Batesfords. When Harry Apperson announces that he intends to fight for the Union, his fiancée Cora Batesford bitterly denounces him and marries his rival, Jack Batesford. After the war, Harry goes West and makes his fortune. Fifty years later, Harry and his grandson Jim decide to buy back the old Carolina homestead, and Jim journeys South, where he meets Cora's granddaughter Floribel. Although Floribel has lost the Batesford estate to Pensinger Gale, a wily mortgage broker who wishes to marry her, she retains her hatred of the Appersons and refuses Jim's help. The proud young woman fails to find employment in another town and is about to commit suicide when Jim rescues her and convinces her to marry him. Before the ceremony, he presents her with the deed to the Batesford estate as a wedding gift.

Dir: Gilbert P. Hamilton

At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin. However, when Ebenezer discovers the extent of Martin's dishonesty and corruption, the shock gives the old man a heart attack and he dies. Soon afterward Martin is discovered dead, and the brothers begin to suspect each other of the murder.