His Wedding Night

His Wedding Night

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Directed by Fatty Arbuckle
Written by Fatty Arbuckle
Joseph Anthony Roach
Starring Fatty Arbuckle
Al St. John
Buster Keaton
Cinematography George Peters
Edited by Herbert Warren
Production
company
Comique Film Company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • August 20, 1917 (1917-08-20)

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Running time
 19 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

His Wedding Night is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle, Al St. John, and Buster Keaton, and directed by Arbuckle.[2]

Plot

Arbuckle plays a lazy, extortionate gas station soda clerk and car attendant who constantly lures in customers with the false promise of low prices. One morning he proposes to his girlfriend Alice (Mann) and she gleefully accepts. Several hours later another admirer of Alice (St. John) also proposes to her but is outraged she is already engaged to Arbuckle and begins causing a commotion in the store until Arbuckle throws him out. Later in the day a delivery boy (Keaton) delivers Alice's wedding dress to the store and agrees to model it for her when she expresses worry that it will not fit her. Meanwhle Arbuckle, trying to get rid of the last bit of chloroform left in a giant container, empties it into a small perfume bottle. He carelessly leaves the bottle out on the store counter and several customers end up knocking themselves out. After Arbuckle attempts to revive the unconscious customers, he sees another customer sampling the perfume is shocked when it has no effect on her, he investigates by spraying himself with the "perfume" but is himself knocked unconscious. With Arbuckle knocked out, the rejected love rival from earlier sneaks into the store with his gang and kidnaps the delivery boy, thinking it is Alice. They take the delivery boy by to the local church and attempt to force the priest to marry them at gunpoint. However, Arbuckle regains consciousness in time and, thinking the group has actually kidnapped his fiance, persues the group to the church, stops the wedding and thwarts the gang. After almost having the priest marry him and the delivery boy, Alice arrives at the church to explain the situation to Arbuckle. Upon which Arbuckle pays the priest to marry him and Alice, but after he does so Arbuckle sprays him with the chloroform in the perfume bottle and takes his money back.

Cast

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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