Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, John Coogan, Alice Lake, Molly Malone. Five silent motion pictures originally produced between 1917 and 1919 by Paramount Pictures Corporation, Comique Film Corporation.
Contents:
(1919) hayseed (1918) -- The butcher boy (1917) -- Out West (1918) -- Moonshine (1918) -- The hayseed (1919)
Summary:
Bell boy: Arbuckle and Keaton as bellboys at a small town hotel, which they eventually completely wreck. Features Arbuckle's classic "shaving routine," where he progressively turns a Rasputin-like character into General Grant, Abraham Lincoln and then into the Kaiser. Butcher boy: Contains Arbuckle's famous "knife juggling" bit, Keaton's first film appearance in his classic "can of molasses" routine, and Arbuckle romping around in drag at an all girl private school. Out West: Arbuckle's first attempt at movie parody, poking fun at the already cliched cowboy western. The film also contains some heavy racism. Moonshine: A parody of Arbuckle's own freewheeling comedy style, filled with inside jokes. After defeating the hillbilly mountaineers, Arbuckle and Keaton conclude the film with a stinging parody of rival Charlie Chaplin's "losing the girl" pathos-type endings. Hayseed: Notable for being the only Arbuckle Comique film in which Buster Keaton -- later known as "The Great Stone Face" -- does not either laugh or smile on screen. Also features the trick dance comedian John Coogan, child star Jackie Coogan's father.
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