Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton: THE GARAGE (1920) 1/3

Part 1 of 3. In this final Arbuckle/Keaton collaboration for the Comique Film Company Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• roscoe
• fatty
• arbuckle
• buster
• keaton
• 1920
• silent
• comedy

[y0utubemetube]

poor fatty arbuckle, for the way the media and the public who persumed he murded someone even though on 3 occassions he was proved not guilty.

[1947Desoto]

Even now people are making their own scores to these silent films. However the muisc is modern, with synthesizer sounds. I personally feel that soundtracks added to silent films should be music that sounds like it the style of music from the year the film was released or earlier.

[ChidoDeLaSierra]

Poor guy being accused :/

[obaidCarkey]

the doug heffernan of the 1920s

[eMuse5]

@genatzvalee Yeah, that part made me die a little inside. The rest of the film had some good moments though, and I loved seeing Buster with the cigar and Western hat.

[eMuse5]

@rentatrip1 You are correct, sir.

[eMuse5]

Roscoe was a huge, huge influence on the movie industry in general, and at one time one of the biggest stars in the world. He helped give many great stars their start: Charlie Chaplin, The Inimitable Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, etc. By all reports he was a kind, gentle person whom everyone liked and respected. And to this day that ridiculous scandal started by a horrible woman still hovers around his legacy...what a shame and what a waste.

[eMuse5]

@thevealchop68 Actually Buster married Natalie Talmadge...whom I otherwise refer to as "HER" in a dark tone of voice...

[katiedavis1997]

I prefer to call him Roscoe, seeing as he hated the name Fatty.

[thevealchop68]

Its true, Arbuckle was the highest paid for a short while. They signed him to a three year, $3,000.000 contract, which is around $40,000,000 in todays money, after adjusting for 90 years of inflation. but he had a contract to make up to 18 movies. consider stars like tom cruise or john travolta make $20 million per picture. So Arbuckle's salary PER movie, was not so much. but then take into account the fact that we really dont know what movies made money and what lost money.

[thevealchop68]

The producer Joseph Schenk married Norma Talmadge. Buster Keaton married Constance Talmadge.

[jjcatful]

Fatty was the highest paid actor at the time.