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| ACTORS: | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 29 October, 1917 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Kino Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White |
| TYPE: | Classics (Silents/Avant Garde) |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 738329020521 |
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Customer Reviews of Arbuckle & Keaton Vol. 2
The Better of the two volumes This is the better of the two collections of Fatty and Buster.
Although most of thee films are two-relers with one reel worth of good material, much of this is good for a laugh (if a bit brutal).
You'll howl at the bit in "The Rough House" where Fatty nonchalantly trieds to put out a fire (that he straterd while smoking in bed)with a smal cup of water. I Love it! "Back Stage" (a possible relation to the 1923 Our Gang comedy of the same name, as some gags and the overall subject matter are similar) is great with the wild dancing of Jack Coogan (Jackie's dad) and a howl-larius scene where Buster and Al St. John wildly fight the stage bully. "Coney Island", despite the story that goes off into wild directions, is priceless for its footage of sections of the amusement park that no longer exist.
A great representation of silent comedy overall. The Fat man cometh.
I have to dock it one star because...
The appearance of these films on home video is long overdue - but why did Kino have to saddle them with the awful attemted scores of the Alloy Orchestra? I would have to call it audio graffiti, they really have no sense of the mood or rhythm of any given film they're working with - the only way I can sit through the disc is to mute the audio and watch it truly silent. Kino, please dump the Alloy Orchestra and get real musicians like Philip Carli and the Mont Alto Orchestra to render sympathetic scores to your silent film releases
The Fat Man is Back Again
With this second volume, Kino International continues their salute to the sadly forgotten and largely misunderstood silent comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. This set of five comedies contains three of the best in the series plus the final short that Arbuckle and Keaton made together. BACK STAGE gives us a glimpse of the rural theaters of the past. It shows off Fatty and Buster to good advantage and features several gags that Keaton would recycle in his short, THE PLAYHOUSE. It also gives us the rare opportunity to see John Coogan (Jackie's father) do his famous dance routine. GOOD NIGHT NURSE has a memorable opening of Arbuckle in the rain trying to light a cigarette. This story of undergoing the cure in a sanitarium features a spirited performance from his long time co-star Alice Lake. We also get to see an expressive Buster Keaton, though not as expressive as he is in CONEY ISLAND. This short shows what made Arbuckle so popular before the scandal that ruined his career. His charm, his expressions, his acrobatics and his best "in drag" performance are all captured for posterity along with the Coney Island of 1918. Arbuckle's nephew, Al St. John (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey), is given one of his best roles. Also check out Buster's backward flip. THE ROUGH HOUSE has Fatty doing the dinner roll routine that Chaplin would use in THE GOLD RUSH and contains a number of violent sight gags. THE GARAGE was the last in the series and features Buster as the main focus. As in Volume One of the series, the transfers are for the most part far superior to previous releases (with the exception of THE GARAGE) and are complemented by the Alloy Orchestra's commissioned scores. It's great to have these available at last for all to see.