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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329020521
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 29, 1917
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Silent comedy (and especially Buster Keaton) buffs will thrill to this second volume of five revelatory shorts by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. "Back Stage," "Coney Island," "The Rough House," "The Garage," and "Good Night Nurse!" were made between 1918 and 1920 at the height of Arbuckle's popularity before scandal tragically cut short his career and forever unjustly tarnished his name. They represent a vital missing chapter in film comedy history. In addition to rescuing Arbuckle from obscurity, they also provide a fascinating nascent glimpse of Keaton. These are his first films, and one can see the seeds of his flowering genius. Arbuckle got his start with Keystone Studio founder Mack Sennett, the original King of Comedy, for whom he made more than 200 shorts in five years. These breakneck, gag-filled reels in which characters run amok show his influence. "Good Night Nurse!" is one of Arbuckle's best, a fever dream in which he finds himself at the mercy of sanitarium doctor Keaton (brandishing a cleaver and drenched with blood). Fans of the "Great Stone Face" will be surprised to see him smiling and laughing as he flirts with Fatty, rather fetchingly disguised in a nurse's uniform. Also of note is a fleeting gag in "The Rough House," in which Roscoe sticks two forks into a pair of dinner rolls and enacts a dance that imitates his former Sennett costar, Charlie Chaplin, who would later expand this routine for his masterpiece, "The Gold Rush." Arbuckle and Keaton's partnership ended on a high note with "The Garage," their last and one of their best collaborations. --Donald Liebenson
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Rating:
- Great Soundtrack!I have to disagree with the next reviewer I think the
Alloy Orchestra does a bang up job! I have many silent
films in my collection with more traditional soundtracks that
I like a lot too. But this is a very nice change (and not
annoying or distracting...goes with the movies) They supply more mood and actual sound effects all produced through strange "found" instruments as well as traditional...normally not something I might like....but BOY! Do they know their craft!!! They ... Read More
Rating:
- The Better of the two volumesThis 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 ... Read More
Rating:
- 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 ... Read More
Rating:
- Their Whole Lives Are Ahead Of Them - Volume 2Like its companion, Volume 1, Kino has assembled for us digitally re-mastered versions of these 2-reelers, along with a related score by the Alloy Orchestra (which sometimes uses a musical saw!). Previously released versions of these films showed chemical decomposition accompanied by really bad, corny music, and in the case of "Coney Island", pieces of film I haven't seen before show up on this DVD. Fatty's career was at its peak, before he signed a multi-million dollar contract that may have helped ruin ... Read More
Rating:
- Arbuckle and Keaton Live Again!This is an excellent digital transfer by Kino from 35-mm stock. There is an original stereo orchestral soundtrack. I recommend both Volumes One and Two of the Arbuckle-Keaton series (see my review under Volume One). The two Volumes present the best ten of the surviving films made by the two (they collaborated on about fifteen all told, and they loved every minute they worked together).
Highly recommended.
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