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Arbuckle & Keaton, a Comique/Paramount release ; Kino International Corp. ; produced for video by Bret Wood, Vol. 2

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Arbuckle & Keaton

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a Comique/Paramount release ; Kino International Corp. ; produced for video by Bret Wood

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[Back stage] This film contains many of the routines Buster used in the "Three Keatons" stage act, and can rightly be called the first Keaton directed film[Good night, nurse!] Arbuckle's surrealistic nightmare where he escapes the operating table, runs away and inadvertently enters a "Great Heavyweight Race." Arbuckle also gives his best "in drag" performance, playing a flirting nurse to Keaton's doctor[Coney Island] Presents Roscoe's nephew, Al St. John, who does a series of "tit-for-tats" with Arbuckle to win a girl, only to have her end up with Buster Keaton[Rough house] Contains Arbuckle's famous "roll dance, " where at the breakfast table, he sticks two forks each into a separate roll and then uses them to do a parody of Charlie Chaplin's walk. Chaplin, appreciating the gag, later expanded on it for use in his film "The Gold Rush."[Garage] Presents Arbuckle and Keaton as a team who find various ways of destroying cars, how not to clean oil stains and how not to fight fires

Back stage (1919, 17 min.) -- Good night, nurse! (1918, 26 min.) -- Coney Island (1918, 34 min.) -- The rough house (1918, 22 min.) -- The garage (1920, 25 min.)

live action

Arbuckle and Keaton, Vol. 2original Comique/Paramount shorts, 1917-1920