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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2017 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Production Country: United States | Year: 1919 | Production Company: Comique Film (United States) | FLM5128 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/en

Fatty and Buster are stagehands. One of the artists that performs that night is bruiser and acrobat Mr Knock Out. Fatty falls in love with Mr Knock Out's female assistant, who is treated very badly. Both Fatty and Buster want to teach Knock Out a lesson. After two failed attempts, they manage to electrocute him. Because the artists are unhappy with their pay, they go on strike. Fatty, Buster and the girl will have to put on the show themselves.

Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, William Collier, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Al St. John, Jack Coogan sr.


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