The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of When the Clouds Roll by: Cult Guide

Dir: Victor Fleming

Between ranchers and sheepherders there is a feud. Jean Isbel and Ellen Jorth are in love. Unfortunately, each of them belongs to one of the parties. That complicates the live of both Ellen and Jean very much.

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

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

Sahande, a Tartar girl placed on the block to be sold, is bought by Costa, a Gypsy chief who outbids Sahande's fiancé, Sender. Costa marries the infuriated Sahande but agrees to give her 10 days in which either to return his love or have Sender fight him. Before the 10 days expire Sender and 30 of his men overtake Costa and imprison him in a tower. When a fire starts there, Sahande realizes she loves Costa and rescues him.

Dir: Victor Fleming

Louis Racine has inherited great wealth and married famed singer Madelinette, whom he passionately loves. But Louis carries a pair of secrets: his wealth may be taken from him if a contradictory will is found, and his health is deteriorating from a disease which will slowly turn him into a grotesquely deformed figure. Terrified that the truth will come out, Louis dares anything to prevent the loss of his riches and true love... even if it means he must kill the man who might be the rightful inheritor.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

In Alsace just before the World War, beautiful, virtuous peasant Marie Ducrot, who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen--a lieutenant in the German Army--is seen visiting Karl in his quarters, and an angry mob of townspeople hurl stones and curses at her. Marie, mistakenly reported dead, becomes a novice in a religious order. War breaks out, and von Hagen is injured in fighting near Marie's convent; he is cared for by Marie and persuades her to return to Germany with him. Le Bête, a French Army sergeant of their acquaintance, helps them to reach the German lines and safety. Le Bête is killed by a sniper's bullet, and Marie and Karl prepare for a brighter future.

Dir: Victor Fleming

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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Lane That Had No Turning 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

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

Dir: Victor Fleming

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.