His Wedding Night

His Wedding Night
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Directed byRoscoe Arbuckle
Written byRoscoe Arbuckle
Joseph Anthony Roach
StarringRoscoe Arbuckle
Al St. John
Buster Keaton
CinematographyGeorge Peters
Edited byHerbert Warren
Production
company
Comique Film Company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 20, 1917 (1917-08-20)
[1]
Running time
19 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

His Wedding Night is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.[2]

Plot

His Wedding Night (1917)

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

Lobby card

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: His Wedding Night". Silent Era. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
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