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Fred Hibbard
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A caravan of flickering projector-light ushers us into Naughty Lions and Wild Men—a 1921 short that, at a breathless twenty-two minutes, feels equal parts circus pamphlet and courtship crucible. Fred Hibbard, a Mack Sennett alumnus who could coax mayhem from a doily, scripts the chaos; real lions—sleek, bored, radiati...


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" A caravan of flickering projector-light ushers us into Naughty Lions and Wild Men—a 1921 short that, at a breathless twenty-two minutes, feels equal parts circus pamphlet and courtship crucible. Fred Hibbard, a Mack Sennett alumnus who could coax mayhem from a doily, scripts the chaos; real lions—sleek, bored, radiating carnivore hauteur—supply the menace. The result is a silent-era oddity that anticipates both reality television’s gladiatorial streak and nature-run-amok shockumentaries by half..."


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