Hand-Picked Alternatives for Fans of There Goes the Bride: Cult Guide

Dir: Roy Clements

A novice learns to drive on a rental Ford to impress a girl.

Dir: Roy Clements

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

A man agrees to marry the daughter of a deceased friend - who is, in fact, being impersonated by the servant girl of the daughter, who has also already died.

Dir: Roy Clements

Corinne Grant, a wealthy society girl, is forced, upon the physical and financial break-down of her father, to choose her future path in life. Her Chinese cook, Wong, offers to read her future in the sands, and the rest of each episode shows what would happen if she decided upon the different careers open to her, coming back at the finish to the girl and the Oriental pouring over the box of shifting sand.

Dir: Roy Clements

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

A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.

Dir: Roy Clements

Jack Hardy, Sr., sends his son West to make a man of him. Jack falls in love with Miss Benson, ranch secretary. Taunted by the girl, he breaks an intractable horse to prove his courage. When Tex Fuller and his gang try to get Jack, Deerfoot, his half-breed brother, takes the missiles intended for his brother. Jack fights the gang and brings them to justice. But Miss Benson is not yet won. She thinks of the girl back East to whom Jack was engaged. Jack's father arrives and announces that he is engaged to the Eastern girl. Miss Benson surrenders.

Dir: Roy Clements

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

This one starts with Will coming out presumably before a Follies audience and telling them that he has brought back from Hollywood some "big moments" from well known films for their enjoyment. Accordingly, a screen is dropped and scenes from "Blood and Sand," "Robin Hood" and finally the old "Keystone Cops" are shown with Rogers, of course, in the leading roles. Of course, the action is all burlesqued and many laughs afforded.

Dir: Roy Clements

A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.

Dir: Roy Clements

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

When a revolution breaks out in a small European monarchy, the king sends his crown jewels to an American banker, Maxwell Grey, to keep them out of danger. However, Madame Levine, the head of an international jewel theft ring, finds out and plans to steal the jewels. She poses as a wealthy society matron and befriends Grey. Young French refugee Diana De Lille, who at first was taken in by Madame Levine, begins to suspect that the woman is not who she says she is, and confides her suspicions to Kenneth Grey, the banker's son, who has fallen in love with her.

Dir: Roy Clements

Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances Powell. The foreman and his "half-breed" accomplice Cholo kidnap Frances.

Dir: Roy Clements

The Governor has been invited to dinner, but a stock promoter named McGovern appears at the door at the expected time and the mistake is not discovered until Ambrose signs and becomes the owner of a considerable lot of bricks.