"Each film features completely restored titles, intertitles, and several films include previously lost or alternate footage. Silent titles feature newly created scores." -- Disc container. Bonus features: Alternate commentary tracks from noted comedy historians Paul Gierucki, Bruce Lawton, Steve Massa, and Richard M. Roberts -- Slide show: original Arbuckle artwork from ILM animator Tom Bertino -- 'The Arbuckle shuffle,' a newly created music video from Robert Arkus.
Contents:
Fatty joins the force / with Minta Durfee, Dot Farley, Edgar Kennedy (1913) -- A flirt's mistake / with Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy (1914) -- The knockout / with Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Mack Swain (1914) -- The rounders / with Phyllis Allen, Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee (1914) -- Leading Lizzie astray / with Charley Chase, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Mack Swain (1914) -- Mabel and Fatty's wash day / with Alice Davenport, Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy (1915) -- Fatty and Mabel's simple life / with Mabel Normand, Al St. John (1915) -- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition / with Joe Bordeaux, Minta Durfee, Mabel Normand (1915) -- Fatty's new role / with George "Slim" Summerville, Mack Swain (1915) -- Mabel and Fatty's married life / with Mabel Normand, Mae Busch (1915) -- Fatty's reckless fling / with Minta Durfee, Ted Edwards, Edgar Kennedy (1915) -- Fatty's chance acquaintance / with Minta Durfee, Frank Hayes (1915) -- That little band of gold / with Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling (1915) -- Fatty's faithful Fido / with Minta Durfee, Al St. John (1915) -- When love took wings / with Frank Hayes, Al St. John, Joe Bordeaux (1915) -- Wished on Mabel / with Alice Davenport, Edgar Kennedy, Mabel Normand (1915) -- Mabel's wilful way / with Mabel Normand, Edgar Kennedy (1915) -- Fatty's plucky pup / with Phyllis Allen, Al St. John, Josephine Stevens (1915) Fatty's tintype tangle / with Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy (1915) -- He did and he didn't (full tints version) / with William Jefferson, Mabel Normand, Al St. John (1916) -- He did and he didn't (night tint only) -- The waiters' ball / with Al St. John, Alice Lake, Corinne Parquet, Kate Price (1916) -- Coney Island / with Buster Keaton, Al St. John (1917) -- Love ("lost" film) / with Monty Banks, Frank Hayes, Al St. John, Winifred Westover (1919) -- Leap year / with Allen Durnell, Clarence Geldart, Winifred Greenwood, Harriet Hammond, Lucien Littlefield, John McKinnon, Gertrude Short, Mary Thurman, Maude Wayne (European release, 1922) -- Character studies (recently discovered) / with Carter DeHaven, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino (1920s) -- Arbuckle as director: Curses / with Al St. John (1925) -- The movies / with Lloyd Hamilton (1925) -- My stars / with Johnny Arthur (1926) -- Fool's luck / with Lupino Lane (1926) -- Bridge wives / with Billy Bletcher, Lynton Brent, Fern Emmett, Al St. John (1932, sound).
Summary:
Presents the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema, who dominated silent film comedy from the days of Keystone until tragic events in 1921 shattered his career, throwing his film triumphs into obscurity. Blacklisted by Hollywood, Arbuckle continued directing dozens of film comedies under the pseudonym "William Goodrich" for almost another decade.
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