Essential Cult Cinema Drawn from the Same DNA as Ship Ahoy: Cult Guide

Dir: Charley Chase

Billy is mistaken for a dangerous Bolshevik, and thrown into jail.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

The conflict between moonshiners and revenuers.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub invades a harem in Turkey, where they teach the harem ladies how to dance the shimmy, with sad results.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

The premise of this film is two rival men pursuing the same girl. In the mean time a gang of car thieves are going around town stealing cars and then reselling them to their original owners. The rich man takes the girl to see a minister to get married so the other man comes up with a plot to have the car thief gang help him win the girl back.

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.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

Misadventures of a traveling company of actors performing for one night in a small town. When the troupe's leading lady deserts the show for a better paying job as a waitress, a young woman from the town gets the role for one night.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub and his girl break a mirror, walk under a ladder, a black cat crosses their path, and they meet a cross eyed man. Some amusing misadventures follow.

Dir: Charley Chase

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

A slapstick comedy where Hank Mann plays a Junk Dealer's Helper who falls in love with a Society bud.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub's creditors are so insistent that he decides to end it all and let his wife collect the insurance.

Dir: Charley Chase

The Brewsters are at their wits' end to solve the problems of the high cost of living. In an endeavor to reduce their household expenses, they have discharged their cook, but somehow it costs them just as much to live. With eggs at a dollar and ten cents a dozen, butter at ninety cents a pound and milk at twenty cents a quart, the Brewsters find themselves slowly but surely being driven into bankruptcy. Brewster reasons it all out to his own satisfaction. He is paying three prices for his food- to the producer, the wholesaler and to the retail dealer. The obvious way to cut down expenses, according to the Brewster idea, is the farm. Why not be a farmer and live for nothing? It's a great idea, and Brewster proceeds to carry it out in a practical way. He trades his city home for a farm with a cow and chickens on it and begins operations immediately. What Brewster doesn't know about milking cows, raising chickens and doing farm chores, would fill a big volume. Mrs. Brewster's knowledge of farming is on a par with her husband's, so their attempt to make a self-supporting institution out of their farm ends in a fiasco, but a comical one nevertheless.