Underplayed Gems

A Joy Ride (1922)

A Joy Ride poster
Directed by
Grim Natwick
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A short silent animated film from 1922 featuring an anthropomorphic dog character from a newspaper comic strip. The dog gets into some kind of amusing adventure.

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What happens

Judge Rummy (also known as Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit, Old Judge Rumhauser, and Judge Rummy's Court) was an American comic strip by Tad Dorgan published from 1910 until 1922. It featured an anthropomorphic dog. Between 1918 and 1922 the character was also the subject of a series of short animated cartoons. S. J. Perelman stated in 1978 that Dorgan's inspiration for the strip had been the murder trial of Harry K. Thaw, and that the strip led Dorgan to be threatened with libel lawsuits more than once. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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