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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1697

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

191421 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 21:02
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe Arbuckle · Public domain

Synopsis

Thrown off a train, Fatty seeks help from an Indigenous woman who decides to marry him. His attempt to escape the wedding carries the pursuit from her community into a nearby saloon.

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Behind the scenes

Arbuckle filmed at Inceville and along the coast near Santa Monica. The Western farce pairs him with Minnie Devereaux and relies on racial and body-size caricatures characteristic of the period.

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Roscoe Arbuckle — Photographer uncredited; https://archive.org/stream/starsofphotopla00phot#page/n25/mode/2up · Public domain

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