Roscoe Arbuckle Trailers
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Roscoe Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 - June 29, 1933), widely known to audiences as “Fatty” Arbuckle, was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also mentored Charlie Chaplin, Monty Banks and Bob Hope, and brought vaudeville star Buster Keaton into the movie business. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood at the time.
In one of the earliest Hollywood scandals, Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel in September 1921, and died four days later. A friend of Rappe accused Arbuckle of raping and accidentally killing her. The first two trials resulted in hung juries, but the third acquitted Arbuckle. The third jury took the unusual step of giving Arbuckle a written statement of apology for his treatment by the justice system. Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal largely halted his career and has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian.
Most Popular Roscoe Arbuckle Trailers
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26 October 1919
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly.
28 August 1921
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
07 October 1925
Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
23 November 1913
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
14 November 1915
Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
05 April 1919
The Bank Clerk is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
05 June 1921
A practical joke makes a man get off before his intended stop, leading to all sorts of trouble.
16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
13 December 1913
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
07 August 1913
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out.
08 March 1931
Ex-Plumber is a 1931 Comedy short.
20 January 1918
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians.
23 May 1932
Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
23 October 1913
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one.
08 January 1914
The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols.
28 September 1931
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
27 June 1932
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
07 March 1915
Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
21 March 1912
Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing.
17 January 1926
Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
16 June 1913
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
11 September 1913
The Gypsy Queen is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
18 September 1913
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
25 September 1913
Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
29 December 1913
Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
05 January 1919
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife.
22 November 1925
While his wife is away, the husband attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
01 March 1919
"Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al.
29 August 1931
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St.
21 March 1961
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
17 July 1913
Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
08 August 1913
Almost a Rescue is a 1913 movie starring Donald MacDonald and Roscoe Arbuckle.
28 February 1992
This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It concludes with a director's cut of the film Police (1916).
13 October 1918
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle confronts the Kaiser in his headquarters, and tells him that he will be be defeated by "scraps of paper," i.
23 May 2007
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing.
07 September 1914
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
21 July 1913
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
30 September 1917
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
12 May 1918
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.
18 December 1913
Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
08 December 1913
A Ride for a Bride is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Virginia Kirtley.
10 November 1913
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
12 January 1914
When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
18 January 1931
Marriage Rows is a 1931 Comedy short.
01 December 1913
The Woman Haters is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Nick Cogley.
18 March 1918
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse.
01 January 1914
A Misplaced Foot is a 1914 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
16 May 1925
When Buttonshoe Bill steals some papers from Buckwheat Ben, and kidnaps Ben's daughter, Rodney Hemingway comes to the rescue.
03 November 1913
Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river.
28 January 1921
Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
08 September 1913
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable.
10 October 1910
A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.
30 August 1909
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story.
19 April 1915
Mabel and her mother visit the park. She sees her boyfriend, Roscoe, and asks him to join them. After the lovers manage slip away by themselves, Mabel’s mother is subsequently robbed.
20 October 1913
Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her.
07 July 1913
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
10 November 1913
The Milk We Drink is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle.
15 June 1919
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
07 March 2006
A documentary short included as an extra with "The Buster Keaton Collection".
