A Noise from the Deep
| A Noise from the Deep | |
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| Directed by | Mack Sennett |
| Produced by | Mack Sennett |
| Starring |
Mabel Normand Roscoe Arbuckle The Keystone Cops |
| Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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Running time | 10 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Noise from the Deep is a 1913 American short silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film was directed and produced by Mack Sennett and also features the Keystone Cops on horseback.
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.
Overview
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 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, who went on to become a sensationally popular romantic screen team and made seventeen films together; writer/director/actress Normand, the most prominent silent movie comedienne, was an almost equally frequent partner and mentor of Charles Chaplin during the same period.
Cast
- Mabel Normand as Mabel
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Bob
- Charles Avery (uncredited minor role)
- Nick Cogley (uncredited minor role)
- Alice Davenport (uncredited minor role)
- William Hauber (uncredited minor role)
- Charles Inslee (uncredited minor role)
- Edgar Kennedy (uncredited minor role)
- Al St. John (uncredited minor role)