Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of Bring 'Em Back a Lie:...

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Harold Lloyd plays a troublemaker who messes up with strangers and cops along the way. During the confusion he takes a trolley to escape, falling in love with a female collector who doesn't care much about him and he also annoys the trolley conductor. But it seems that odds and luck will be on his favor.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Call for Mr. Caveman perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.

Dir: Maurice Campbell

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Never Touched Me perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young married couple volunteer to take charge of several orphans after the asylum has burned down. Of course they find their hands full with their troublesome charges.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Our hero is a barber in a small Mexican town, wooing a local senorita, against the wishes of her mother.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Harold appears at the farm looking for work and afraid he will find it. He does, and finally out-wits a pair of burglars who are trying to rob the safe, and as his reward he gets the girl.