The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of A Jungle Gentleman: Cult Guide

Dir: Fred Hibbard

Jimmie the hotel clerk was original in the manner of his morning ablutions. His bed was built over a well into which he dumped himself when he felt that it was going to be hard to wake up. But after he was well awake he thought of nothing much but the hotel milkmaid, Esther. So engrossed was he with this fair one that the intrusion of Count Zeeplotinxophsky was regarded as a personal affront and a decided danger to his peace of mind. Esther's equanimity was also somewhat ruffled. She fell in love with the Count's mustache and decided to elope with him. But before he went the Count wanted to be sure of a dowry. The only one in sight, or rather in prospect was in the hotel safe. The clerk, the bellboy and the hotel detective were in the way. The latter was inside the safe holding the receipts in his hands. But he was asleep and even the explosion which wrenched off the safe door did not wake him up. Having secured the booty, and the girl, the Count ran around the block in his racing car and took a room in the same hotel. But the bell boy and the clerk shadowed him and at last drove him out. Jimmie followed him and the bellboy brought up reinforcements in the shape of the female fire department. The Chiefess discovered that the Count was her ex-husband, and all the comedy dropped out of his existence.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

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

It is Teddy's duty to awaken his master in time to deliver milk; he must pull the little milk wagon over its route, and to round out a complete life for the day - he must take care of the goat that gives up forty quarts of "milk without a prescription." Teddy is constantly on the job. He frustrates the villain's plan to sour the milk with a lemon and changes the bottles before any harm can come to the master. Teddy, furthermore, saves the goat from being kidnapped - and he is finally commissioned to pull the wagon in which his master and his sweetheart are seated.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

The picture opens with Brownie in a tuxedo, eating an elaborate meal and finishing with the proper use of his finger bowl. It is all a dream, however, as he is but the assistant to an itinerant glazier who ties a stone to Brownie's tail and has him break show windows for his master to repair. The glazier combines business with a clothes cleaner and Brownie with his mud-smeared tail, rubs up against people and brings in plenty of business.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

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

Brownie spends a good part of his time avoiding the dog-catcher. Later he make friends with the detective and they start after a burglar.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight. The sheriff and his deputy had the habits of Jesse James, and he also robbed the country by teaching school. The weekly train was the town's only sport. The engineer knew Weazel Bend- so he didn't even hesitated. They had a nice soft mattress on the station platform to catch the passengers that chanced that way. But one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties-teaching school. Her sweetheart Hiram Biff, had followed her, how ever, riding on his nerve and the engine rod. "Big Kick Kitchen," was the place where society mixed soft drinks with hard fists. Even the bad guy, Pineapple Pete, didn't look so hard, sipping a soft drink. However, looks are not everything. Pineapple decided to pay the bank an unofficial visit to draw out some cash he had never deposited, but he was interrupted by our friend the Sheriff, who demanded half of the loot. Everything was going lovely, when who should appear but Hiram. He rounded up the crooks in fine shape, grabbed the money with one hand, his girl with the other and they both grabbed the first train going the other way.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

The heroine promises to marry the bravest hunter among her men acquaintances.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

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

Sheriff Jim is an overgrown mother's boy who eats enormous meals and loves a girl named Susan.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Fred Hibbard

A burglar constantly gets the "papers" when he is after the pearls, and a spy endlessly gets the pearls while he is after the "papers," and the jealous husband of a flighty wife lives in what he calls a "house full of lovers," consisting of the spy, the burglar, and some detectives, all in hiding, all trying to avoid him and one another.