Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of Call for Mr. Caveman: Cult Guide

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Captain Dandy is quite the ladies' man, with a woman in every port--and, he's about to set sail. Aboard ship is a beautiful woman - and her jealous husband.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

The difficulties of a bride and bridegroom when they try to take their honeymoon in a "haunted" house.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Harry and his fat neighbor decide to purchase a second-hand car, much to the delight of their wives. On the first joy ride everything falls off the car except the number. Harry drives disastrously, through walls and buildings, carrying one man in a bath tub into the street. He finally wrecks the flivver completely, and he and wifey swear "never again."

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Park Your Car 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

Pollard as the dentist gets the wrong hand bag by mistake. When he reaches his office he discovers that the contents, which are bottled goods, have very nearly leaked out. As his clients are very few and far between he walks through the offices of his tooth-pulling competitors with the open bag, with the result that his own office is soon overflowing - with eager, clamorous patients.

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.

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

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A young man goes out to eat breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threatens to eat everyone's bacon, the two friends flee.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

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

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

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.