Must-Watch List in the Vein of When Do We Eat?: Cult Guide

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of From Hand to Mouth perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.

Dir: Richard Smith

Two female candidates for Chief of Police live across the hall from each other, and their political rivalry follows them home, leading to plenty of hi-jinks.

Dir: Alfred J. Goulding

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

Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.

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.

Dir: Maurice Campbell

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

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: 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: 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.