A Noise from the Deep

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A Noise from the Deep
Directed by	Mack Sennett
Produced by	Mack Sennett
Starring	Mabel Normand Roscoe Arbuckle Mack Sennett The Keystone Cops
Release date(s)	17 July, 1913
Running time	10 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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A Noise from the Deep is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film was directed by Mack Sennett and also features the Keystone Cops on horseback. Mabel Normand throws the first pie known to ever be thrown on film in this ten-minute short about a gorgeous farm girl (Normand) in love with an obese farmhand (Arbuckle); the charming country couple wants to get married but are delayed by her father's insistence upon her choosing a different suitor.

The movie was the first pairing of Mabel Normand and "Fatty" Arbuckle, who went on to become a sensationally popular romantic screen team and made more than a dozen films together (writer/director/actress Normand, the most prominent silent movie comedienne, was an equally frequent partner and mentor of Charles Chaplin during the same period).

A Noise from the Deep still exists and was screened four times in 2006 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of a 56-film retrospective of all known surviving Arbuckle movies.