Top-Tier Alternatives In the Shadow of Doing Time: Cult Guide

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

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.

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

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Don't Shove perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

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

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

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.

Dir: Charley Chase

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.

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

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: 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.