Underground Favorites Parallel to the Artistry of Stop, Look and Listen: Cult Guide

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of It Takes a Crook perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

After removing their respective valuables, a pair of supposed crooks, male and female, find each other out and fall in love.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

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

A young fellow desires to cure his girl of a bee in her bonnet that she wants to be a missionary to the Cannibal Islands, so he forces one of his pals to impersonate a native and lodges him at the home of his intended.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Save Me, Sadie perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Bobby's chief aim is to prevent his rivals from making love to Florence by making them believe, through various tricks, that her hair and other necessities of life were false, thereby almost losing her himself.

Dir: William Beaudine

A girl shows her brother, Jack, a character picture of her pretty friend, in which she wears glasses, and looks otherwise unattractive. When the young lady comes to visit, Jack sends himself a fake telegram to come to New York. As he is leaving the house the pretty girl is arriving. He suddenly changes his mind, but when he reaches the house she is being entertained by a couple of other young men. In the course of events he kidnaps her, and at the conclusion they are happily married.

Dir: William Beaudine

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

Bobby is a rival for the hand of a damsel who has a parent who objects to suitors for his daughter's hand. Then Bobby decides to join a college fraternity over which his rival presides as master of ceremonies. In his initiation Bobby does a lot of crazy stunts which get him into trouble. However, by carrying them out as per instructions, he gains the good will of the fair maiden and irate father and receives official sanction to become a son-in-law.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

Bobby is a college cut-up who is sent down to the farm in the hope that he will mend his ways. Here he meets, along with two pals, a couple of chorus girls who take him for a "rube." Later, still posing as a sod buster, Bobby invades the shop where the show dames are working and manages to create a surprising amount of disturbance.