page_title: The Ringtailed Rhinoceros
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: The Ringtailed Rhinoceros / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Little Billie (Raymond Hackett) and John (Raymond Hitchcock) discuss their plans to kill the "Ringtailed Rhinoceros", screenshot of image published in The Movie Pictorial (New York, N.Y.), October 1, 1914, p. 20; promotion for the Lubin film The Ringtailed Rhinoceros released in August 1915.
context_page_description: The Ringtailed Rhinoceros is a lost 1915 American silent comedy-drama film that depicted the ruinous effects of alcohol on a good-natured man and on the lives of the people around him. Like snakes and "pink elephants" that have been used in many societies to symbolize heavy drinking or been associated with the hallucinations of drunkards, the main character in this "'photophantasy'" blamed instead a "Ringtailed Rhinoceros" for his excessive use of wine and liquor.
  The production's screenplay, written by Lawrence McCloskey, consisted basically of two parts: the first being a depiction of real-life events in an alcoholic's life and the latter part being a presentation of his bizarre dream in which he wandered through a land of strange people and animals to find and kill the evil rhino. Directed by George Terwilliger and starring Raymond Hitchcock and Flora Zabelle, this Lubin production was filmed on location in Long Island, New York and St. Augustine, Florida.
  The Library of Congress includes the film among the National Film Preservation Board's list of "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films" produced between 1912 and 1929.
context_section_description: Raymond Hitchcock as John Carter-Carter
  Flora Zabelle as Marybelle Loring / The Weeping Princess
  Raymond Hackett as Billie Loring / Prince Good Intent
  Herbert Fortier as Mr. Loring / the king
  Ida Waterman as Mrs. Loring / the queen
  Arthur Matthews as the secretary
  Earl Metcalfe as the grouch (credited as Edward Metcalfe)
  William Boyd as the prime minister
  Unidentified performers as the Ringtailed Rhinoceros and other animals
caption: Billie (Raymond Hackett) listens to John (Hitchcock) talk about the dreaded rhino.
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