Cinematic Discoveries Resonating with the Themes of Uncle Tom Without a Cabin: Cult Guide

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Bobby hires himself out as a pet monkey to an organ grinder who has an attractive dancing girl for an assistant. A monkey of about Bobby's size and build escapes from a cage in the city hospital, where it was being held for an experimental operation. Bobby is taken for the escaped monkey and instead of giving him pennies, everyone runs away from him. Finally Bobby hides in the cage in the hospital that held the escaped monkey. He lands on the operating table, but an orderly breaks a tube of laughing gas and the operation has to be called off.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich heiress, and he shifts his attentions to her. Now the flower girl's boyfriend is unhappy, and soon there are even more complications.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

It's all there - the deserted mother with her child in her arms, followed all around by a fiendish wicked snow storm, the heroine lashed to the rails by the scoundrelly villain, the young woman fastened to the buzz saw of a lumber mill and about to be reduced to mincemeat. And hist. The wicked villain with a mustache and cigarette - the noble hero and the persecuted heroine. There are two drunks sitting in one of the boxes of the theater, who get so excited that they insist upon helping out the action of the melodrama. In the middle of the play, the head scene shifter gets jealous of his wife, who is the leading woman of the show, and drags her from the stage. Nothing, if not resourceful, Ben rushes down into the audience and kidnaps a beautiful young woman to play the leading woman's role. Then comes a startling climax, when the snow storm is shut down by a queer accident. And an equally tragic catastrophe jazzes up the ocean when a storm and a submarine play at cross purposes.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Sheriff Nell fights and subdues a whole police force, single-handed, and finally assists in the capture of Silk Shirt Gus.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.