Fatty Arbuckle - Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) visits his girl (Minta Durfee) at the Swift Footers Athletic Club where preparations are underway for a dance. The trouble starts when Fatty’s rival (Al St. John) puts the moves on Fatty’s girl.
In their bid to win over Minta, Fatty Arbuckle and Al start fighting with each other and their fight escalates into a brick and rock-throwing match in front of the Chinese laundry downstairs.
Fatty's Faithful Fido is a 1915 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. In the film, Fatty and Al fight for the affection of Minta Durfee, who was actually Arbuckle’s wife of seven years at the time!
Once Fatty finds out Al's plot to kill him by sending the thugs, Fatty chases Al. He tries going up with the flying rings, but ends up crashing through the floor and landing in One Lung's laundry vat. Fatty and One Lung lose their balance and fall in as well.
Minta's suitors Al and Fatty try to outsmart each other in a bid to win her love. This movie has some of the best stunts seen from Keystone. Al does back-flips, climbs on a rickety-looking ladder over an alleyway, and has several timed falls. Fatty does a great fall onto a wheelbarrow.
Fatty Arbuckle had a ''wonderful'' singing voice and was extremely agile. At the age of eight, with his mother's encouragement, he first performed on stage with Frank Bacon's company during their stopover in Santa Ana.
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