Fatty's Tintype Tangle

1915 film by Roscoe Arbuckle
  • July 26, 1915 (1915-07-26)
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Running time
27 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Fatty's Tintype Tangle is a 1915 comedy short film (2 reel). A man (Fatty), tired of his mother-in-law's henpecking, leaves home in anger and sits on a park bench, where a photographer takes a picture of him sitting next to a married woman, whose husband is not pleased. Conflict ensues.

The movie stars Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (who also directed), Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee and Frank Hayes. Arbuckle performs several feats of dexterity in the first few minutes and, near the end, runs and bounces on 17 closely spaced apparent telephone wires over 20 feet (6 m) above the ground.

In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[2][3] It has been shown on Turner Classic Movies.

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Cast

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Fatty
  • Louise Fazenda - Edgar's Wife
  • Edgar Kennedy - Edgar
  • Norma Nichols - Fatty's wife
  • Mai Wells - Fatty's mother-in-law
  • Frank Hayes - Police Chief
  • Joe Bordeaux - Passerby with Banana
  • Glen Cavender - Photographer
  • Bobby Dunn - Laughing Man (uncredited)
  • Ted Edwards - Cop (uncredited)
  • Charles Lakin - Cop (uncredited)

See also

References

  1. ^ Walker, Brent E. (2010). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland Inc. p. 321. ISBN 9780786457076. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  3. ^ "The 25 Films for '95 (February 5, 1996) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-10-01.

External links

  • Fatty's Tintype Tangle at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Fatty's Tintype Tangle at the TCM Movie Database
  • Fatty’s Tintype Tangle essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 44–46 [1]
  • Fatty's Tintype Tangle on YouTube [2]


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