
The phrase “they don’t make ’em like this anymore” curdles into cliché unless you’ve actually sat through Fred Hibbard’s Loose Lions and Fast Lovers, a 1924 two-reeler that behaves as though someone spiked the celluloid with bathtub gin and then invited an actual circus to stampede across it. Picture, if your optic ...

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Fred Hibbard

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" The phrase “they don’t make ’em like this anymore” curdles into cliché unless you’ve actually sat through Fred Hibbard’s Loose Lions and Fast Lovers, a 1924 two-reeler that behaves as though someone spiked the celluloid with bathtub gin and then invited an actual circus to stampede across it. Picture, if your optic nerves are sturdy enough, a world where matrimony is a blood-sport played inside canvas tents reeking of sawdust, popcorn grease, and animal rut. Bud Jamison—moon-faced, shoulders ..."

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