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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1693

Peeping Pete

19137 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 5:44
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Mack Sennett · Public domain

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Synopsis

Pete spies on a neighbor's wife through a hole in a fence. Discovery sends him running, and a private intrusion expands into a chase involving angry relatives and the police.

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

DirectorsMack Sennett

Behind the scenes

Mack Sennett plays Pete, while Roscoe Arbuckle appears as Pete's wife. The Keystone short centers on Sennett's character despite Arbuckle's later fame.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

Photograph credit

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

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