The Definitive Guide Deeply Connected to Non Skid Love: Cult Guide

Dir: Eddie Lyons

Rushville is excited over the football game to be played that day between its rival teams, the Bearcats and the Carnations. Word reaches the latter team that Spike Hennessey, a famous quarterback, is to be a ringer on the "Bearcats" team.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

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

The newlyweds buy a rooster and expect it to lay eggs. Food conservation also comes in for some quiet, humorous effects.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Reggie Morris

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

Nifty Ned is a heavyweight champion that meets all comers. He is successful through the fact that he manages to back his opponents against the scenery at the back of the stage ring. From a vantage point behind the scenes, Happy Harry whacks the opponent on the head with a club, invariably causing the "knockout." The end comes when the "heavyweight" is pushed against the scenery by one of his opponents, and Happy Harry knocks out the wrong man.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

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

Eddie has a wife and baby. Lee plays his well known role of janitor, who finds himself with the baby, a dog and a parrot on his hands, after a mix-up in the apartment house, but eventually gets them in the hands of their proper owners.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

Lee is a tailor's apprentice who follows his customer, Eddie, to a social affair. Lee measures up the guests for new clothes. Both he and Eddie lose their trousers and do some tall dodging about among the guests as a result.

Dir: Edgar Jones

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

A mail-order bride arrives at a Maine lumber camp but doesn't like her prospective husband.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

Lee and his family take Eddie and his wife riding in their new car.

Dir: Eddie Lyons

Bernie and Sidney are a buyer and a salesman who smash each other's hats before becoming acquainted. Their wives afterward mix in at a hat sale and later all meet at dinner, when the riot begins again.