His Wedding Night is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.[2]
Plot
Arbuckle portrays a lazy and dishonest store clerk who gets into various slap-stick situations, such as drugging customers with chloroform-laced perfume and tussling with a donkey. He proposes to his boss's daughter, Alice, but faces competition from another employee, Al. When Alice spurns Al's proposal, chaos ensues. Later, in a ploy to kidnap Alice and force her to marry him, he accidentally rides off with the delivery boy (Buster Keaton). Unaware of the mix-up, Arbuckle attempts to rescue her, nearly paying a justice of the peace to wed him to Keaton in the process. The film concludes with Arbuckle marrying Alice, then drugging the justice of the peace with the chloroform-laced perfume to recover his money.
Cast
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as Drugstore soda clerk
- Al St. John as Rival Suitor
- Buster Keaton as Delivery Boy
- Alice Mann as Alice
- Arthur Earle
- Jimmy Bryant
- Josephine Stevens as Lady Customer
- Alice Lake
- Natalie Talmadge as Pretty lady in the car (uncredited)
See also
References
- ^ Knopf, Robert (August 2, 1999). The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-691-00442-6. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: His Wedding Night". Silent Era. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
External links
- His Wedding Night at IMDb
- The short film His Wedding Night is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive., however, the last minute of the film is missing.
- His Wedding Night on YouTube
- His Wedding Night at the International Buster Keaton Society