Deep Archive Finds in the Vein of Wasted Lives: Cult Guide

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In Alberta, Canada, a Cornish emigrant unmasks a rustler posing as the girl's "blind" father.

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A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Little Miss Nobody perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The story of a baby placed in a home by the father and his sweetheart. As years pass, the child is known as the Little Orphan. The mother becomes the wife of a successful doctor. The father has grown prosperous in business. The child has been forgotten. The child meets with an accident. The doctor cares for her, learns to love her, and adopts her. The father of the child learns of this, and in endeavoring to protect his secret, goes to the doctor's wife, his old sweetheart and mother of the Little Orphan. The doctor finds the duplicity of his wife and leaves her; the Little Orphan is thrown into the street. The father of the child meets with an untimely end at the hands of his former sweetheart, who herself pays the penalty later. The doctor searches and finds the Little Orphan and brings her to his home.

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When famous opera singer Elinore Duane undergoes an operation on her throat, she has a series of ether-induced visions. In one, she is transported to ancient Rome where she appears as a much-admired woman in love with Paul, a young heretic, and at odds with Lutor, the high priest. To save her love, she poisons Lutor with her ring. After several other visions which involve variations on this love triangle, Elinore awakens to discover that Lutor is actually her doctor, Sascha Jaccard, and that Paul is the son of a friend who has come to visit the recovering prima donna.

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

Becoming pregnant after an affair with her boss's son, Philip Montrose, Grace visits abortionist Dr. Robert Lynn. When the doctor's wife discovers that Grace is her own child whom she had left with her sister-in-law years earlier, Mrs. Lynn takes the girl to Mr. Montrose to expose the perfidy of his son. His father compels Philip to marry Grace, but their marriage is an unhappy one and in a fit of rage one day Philip strikes his wife. Thinking that he has killed her, he flees, but Grace physically recovers although her mind remains deranged. All efforts to restore her sanity are to no avail until the repentant husband returns and takes her in his arms. Meanwhile, Dr. Lynn takes poison after the nature of his practice is exposed.

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While working as a flower girl in Devlin Maddox's nightclub, Nellie Vaughan meets wealthy young Pelton Van Teel and falls in love. Maddox, desirous of using Nellie to blackmail Van Teel, spreads a rumor that she is his mistress. This makes Nellie uncomfortable, and she demands that Van Teel marry her immediately, to which he agrees. Meanwhile, Van Teel has been losing money gambling to Maddox, who threatens to break up the marriage by producing a worthless check that the young husband has written. Venturing to Maddox's apartment for a showdown, Nellie pulls a gun and demands the check, accidentally shooting Maddox when he throws a lamp at her. Maddox plans to charge Nellie with assault, but when the police arrive, his butler, actually a detective employed by the elder Van Teel, exposes Maddox, who is then arrested, clearing the path for the couple's happiness.

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

A lady marries a horse trainer but withholds herself until her crippled brother is cured.

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Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the anarchistic propaganda being put forth by Klimoff, the leader of a Bolshevik gang whose goal is to disrupt the country with strikes and anarchy. Despite McDonald's efforts, a strike is called, resulting in chaos. McDonald's child is knocked down by runaway horses abandoned by their striking driver, and dies. Mob scenes take place in America, as well as in Russia. Eventually, the unrest is quelled with an armistice called between Capital and Labor for a year, during which time wages are to be increased to reflect the cost of living, and leaders are to work out a common plan for their mutual advantage. The strikers now realize that they have been pawns of the Bolsheviks and call off the strike, agreeing to the plan.

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

Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.

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A simple country girl, brutally mistreated by her stepfather, awakens first the sympathy, then the love, of The Boy. The Spider, who lusts after The Girl, makes a bargain with the stepfather and takes her to the city where, kept prisoner, she is soon broken in health and spirit. Cast out and near death, she is taken in by The Boy. Following the demise of The Spider, The Boy takes her to church, where he prays, and after many hours she is restored to health.

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An injured little girl is taken in by a tribe of Gypsies. When she is a grown beauty, she is caught between the love of a man and the Gypsy chief.