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Fatty's Chance Acquaintance

191513 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A park outing becomes tangled when Fatty flirts with another woman and a pickpocket empties his wife's purse. Ice creams, unpaid bills and misplaced suspicion draw a policeman into the confusion.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Dutch.
This copy runs
14:39
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Dutch. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933), 1915, Keystone Film (United States) · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Behind the scenes

Roscoe Arbuckle directs and stars in this Keystone comedy alongside Minta Durfee and Billie Bennett. This surviving copy has Dutch intertitles.

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