A Reckless Romeo
| A Reckless Romeo | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle |
| Written by |
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Joseph Anthony Roach |
| Starring | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle |
| Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
| Edited by | Herbert Warren |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 23 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Reckless Romeo is a 1917 American short silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
Production background
The film was released 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]
The film was originally produced in New Jersey as one of Arbuckle's last Keystone pictures. Filmed between July and September 1916 and later sold to Paramount, it was released as a Comique film on May 21, 1917 after The Butcher Boy and before The Rough House.[4]
Plot
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 upon by the woman's boyfriend, treating viewers to two simultaneous fights between the same two men, both on-screen and in the aisle.
Cast
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Husband
- Al St. John as Rival
- Corinne Parquet as Wife
- Agnes Neilson as Mother-in-Law
- Alice Lake as Girl in Park
- Jimmy Bryant
- Joe Bordeaux as Newsreel director (uncredited)
Preservation status
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).[5]
See also
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography
- List of rediscovered films
References
- ↑ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
- ↑ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ↑ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
- ↑ Neibaur, James L. (2007), Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7864-2831-1
- ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: A Reckless Romeo". Silent Era. Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-17.