| A Reckless Romeo | |
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| Directed by | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle |
| Written by | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Joseph Anthony Roach |
| Starring | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle |
| Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
| Editing by | Herbert Warren |
| Release date(s) | May 21, 1917 |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
A Reckless Romeo is a 1917 short silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
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The film was produced by the Comique Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. Some shots were done at Palisades Amusement Park. [1][2][3]
Prints of the film survive in the film archive at George Eastman House. A print was discovered in 1998 in the Norwegian Film Archive in an unmarked canister with The Cook (1918).[4]
A philandering husband's public flirtation with a beautiful girl -- and the resulting brawl with the woman's boyfriend -- are captured by a newsreel cameraman. When the husband takes his wife and her mother out to the movies, the footage is shown on-screen. The husband tries to flee the theater, only to be spotted and leaped on by the woman's boyfriend, treating views to two simultaneous fights between the same two men, both on-screen and in the aisle.