Hand-Picked Alternatives for Fans of Wild Honey: Cult Guide

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, _Adventures of Kathlyn, The (1913)_, released three years earlier.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

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

Nora, a girl of the lower East Side of New York City, marries a rising ward politician. A child is born. They are happy, but the young politician is running for office against the old ward boss and has to be out every night. The wife becomes jealous of a certain woman. Nora's child dies. Things get worse for her as jealousy and the seeming neglect of her husband increase. She finally leaves him and becomes a model for a noted painter. The husband finds where she is, but makes no attempt to force her to return to him, though he still loves her. One of the artist's friends, a magnate in the motion picture business, promises her a chance. Her rise to stardom is quick. The climax of the story is a struggle between the old love and the new fame. She does not know that the politician has become a first-class lawyer. Finding that the old love and the new fame are not incompatible, she is reunited with her husband.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

Henri Le Rocque's arrival to an island village causes much consternation when he insists upon advanced rental for the land he owns. Accompanying Le Rocque is his nephew Paul, recovering from the effects of an unfortunate love affair. One day, little flower girl Fleurette visits the Le Rocque estate to make a present of a rare flower and is shot as a trespasser. She is nursed back to health at the mansion, and Paul falls in love with her. However, her former sweetheart, Jacques, appears and persuades Fleurette to run away. As Fleurette returns to the village, she learns that the villagers are planning to storm the mansion and, realizing that she loves Paul, rushes back to warn him. This endears her to Henri, who urges Fleurette to marry his nephew and bring happiness into their lives.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

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

The story opens in the office of an oil company. The president received a letter from a friend notifying him there is oil in the town of Glory. He forms a dummy railroad company and sends a representative to Glory to get rights to the property by promising that the dummy company will establish a station at Glory. While getting the rights to the property, the oil representative goes through what he supposes a fake marriage with the postmistress of the village. Time passes and the postmistress leaves the village for a neighboring town, where she gives birth to a child. Unable to support the child, she brings the baby to the village hotel run by two Germans, and, under cover of darkness, leaves the baby there. The baby is adopted by the village, named Glory Glory, and brought up by the two Germans. In the meantime the mother has made her way to the city and drops from exhaustion in front of the president of the oil company's house, when she is picked up and carried in. Upon examination by the doctor he finds the fall has caused her to lose her memory. The president is a widower and upon the woman's recovery decides to have her stay as governess and bring up his young son. Several years pass by and both Glory and the president's son are grown up. They accidentally meet and fall in love. The oil company decides to take possession of the property at Glory and then a fight ensues, the son taking sides with the girl he loves and her people. During the lapse of years the man who put through the original deal for the oil company and who married the postmistress has risen to be a judge. The case is brought before him and he dismissed the charges of the citizens of Glory. The son decides to assist and steals the papers relative to the case. The judge and president of the company finally decide to make restitution. The marriage is found to be legal. The people get the oil property back, and Glory is happy with her sweetheart.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

Bessie, a girl of the slums, is left an orphan. Her father was a drunkard and during one of his periods of intoxication he killed his wife and then, in trying to escape, was himself killed. Left destitute, Bessie is invited by a couple of youngsters to keep house for them. The two boys earn enough money selling papers to keep up the little establishment and Bessie does the housework. One day as she is playing in the street she is run over by an auto belonging to society lady Mrs. Latham, who feels sorry for her and visits her at the hospital where she is taken. On leaving the hospital Bessie goes to see the wealthy widow, who procures her a position at a modiste's shop. A couple of months later Bessie goes to a cheap dance hall with a friend, where she is noticed by theatrical agent Abrams, who offers her a job as a cabaret dancer and she accepts. While dancing in the cabaret she is noticed by wealthy clubman Shirley Martin, who says that he will make her a great dancer. He introduces her to a manager and all arrangements are made for the Broadway production. Shirley expects a price for his favors, but to his chagrin, he discovers that Bessie is incorruptible. Bessie's debut as a dancer is a success. Mrs. Latham, who has designs on Shirley's money, is jealous of the attentions he is paying the little dancer. She plans to so compromise her that his love will be cured. Accordingly, she invites the two of them on a weekend trip to the country and then, at the last minute, does not go herself. When the two young people arrive at the hotel, they find rooms engaged for Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Martin. When Bessie confesses that she loves him, he tries to force his attentions on her, but she repulses him. Then Shirley realizes that he has acted like a cad and when he asks her to marry him the next day, she agrees. Meanwhile, Mrs. Latham has written a note to Old Man Martin saying that Bessie is trying to ruin his son's life and that if he does not want a scandal, he must go at once to the hotel where they are registered as husband and wife. Martin hurries down and finds them there the next day. He accuses Bessie of having designs on Shirley and forbids the marriage. So Bessie, thinking that perhaps after all, the marriage would not be for the best, agrees to go away. When Shirley finds out what his father has done, he is furious, and says that he will not come home until his father consents to the marriage. But he cannot find Bessie, as she has left without giving anyone her address except old Martin. But at the Martin home, the mother has become ill, and the doctor thinks that the only thing that will save her life is a reunion with her boy. So Mr. Martin hunts up Shirley at the club and persuades him to come home for the sake of his mother, and then he goes to find Bessie. Of course the two are reunited and agree to have the long-delayed wedding take place at once.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

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

Washington, D.C. society belle Elizabeth Crane gives up her fiance, young diplomat Paul Beale, when she learns that her foster sister Flavia also loves him. After Flavia and Paul marry, they join Elizabeth on a yacht belonging to millionaire Silas Randolph, who wants to marry Elizabeth. The yacht catches fire and Elizabeth and Paul swim to a desert isle. Randolph arrives later and fights Paul to get to Elizabeth, but she stabs him to death. As the months pass, Paul and Elizabeth, believing Flavia dead, rediscover their love and live as if they were married; but Flavia, who was saved by a freight steamer, sees a vision of Elizabeth and organizes a search party. When Elizabeth sees Flavia's boat approach, she tells Paul, who says he wants to remain with her. After she convinces Paul that his child has a right to him, Elizabeth walks into the sea and drowns herself so that Flavia will not know of the island romance.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in an embrace forced by Brockwell, Stephen denounces Julia and leaves. After losing his fortune in the market, Stephen refuses Julia's offer to sell her jewels, and stays away for one year, while she opens a successful millinery store and has a baby. Despondent, Stephen decides to shoot himself, but when he hazily imagines Julia entering and catching his dead body, he drops the gun and decides to renew his life. After Jonathan Cosgrove, a friend, gives him $5,000 and a room in his home, Stephen discovers Brockwell in Mrs. Cosgrove's bedroom, forcing himself on her. Stephen hurls Brockwell through the window and then, to save Mrs. Cosgrove's reputation, allows Jonathan to think that he is the guilty party. After Mrs. Cosgrove discovers that Brockwell is a forger, she confesses to Jonathan, and arranges a meeting between Stephen and his wife and son that ends happily.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

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

Jean Servian's eyesight is failing and is desperate for money, marries wealthy widower Geoffrey Vane after telling him that he must be satisfied with her gratitude rather than her love. Then, following an affair with artist Philip Derblay, who finally leaves her, Jean settles down to a quiet, boring life with Geoffrey, who knows nothing about her failed romance. Years later, however, after Lucille, Geoffrey's daughter by his first wife, becomes engaged to Philip, Jean feels compelled to tell the story of her own affair with him. The disclosure has little effect as Lucille makes no change in her wedding plans, but then, when she breaks in on a violent argument between Philip and Lucille, Jean accidentally shoots and kills her former lover. A trial results in her acquittal, however, after which Jean realizes that she really does love Geoffrey, who easily forgives his wife for her past indiscretion.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

When Roberta Carruthers' father, Capt. Carruthers, is killed in France during the war, she comes to live in the US with her uncle. When she finds out that her uncle is under the impression that his brother had a son and not a daughter, she decides to disguise herself as a male, and calls herself Bob. She becomes a translator for William Faulkner, the governor of the state, and in that capacity exposes a number of German spies. However, Gov. Faulkner manages to meet "Roberta" as a woman, not knowing that she is actually "Bob", his translator--and falls in love with her. Complications ensue.

Dir: Francis J. Grandon

Strathmore, a woman hater, falls in love with "Lady" Vavasour after having reproached his friend, Bertie Errol, for his attentions to Lucille, the little farm girl. Errol, too, has trifled with the Vavasour woman and warns Strathmore that she is thoroughly bad and not really Vavasour's wife at all. They quarrel and fight a duel in which Erroll is killed. He has left a letter to Strathmore, explaining that Lucille, the daughter of exiled but noble Russians, is really his wife though he has kept the marriage secret for fear of offending his family and wealthy uncle. When the news of Errol's death is brought to her, Mrs. Errol dies of shock and Strathmore adopts and rears the daughter of this match who has been named Lucille for her mother. Lord Strathmore drives "Lady" Vavasour from society and completely exposes her, for he holds her responsible for the trouble between himself and Errol. As the years pass, Lucille grows into a beautiful girl, and when the Comte de Valdor proposes for her hand she refuses him, revealing that she loves Strathmore. Because he has killed her father, he hesitates, but in the end he marries her. "Lady" Vavasour, affected by the girl's happiness, foregoes exposing the truth of her father's death.