A Reckless Romeo
About A Reckless Romeo
A husband flirts with a girl in a park and fights her boyfriend while a newsreel cameraman records them. He later takes his wife and her mother to the movies, and the newsreel comes on the screen. He tries to leave. The boyfriend spots him in the aisle, and the two men fight in the theater while the same fight plays on the screen.
Cast & crew
More about A Reckless Romeo
Arbuckle shot it in New Jersey between July and September 1916, with scenes at Palisades Amusement Park, as one of his last Keystone pictures. Paramount released it on May 21, 1917, as a Comique film, after The Butcher Boy and before The Rough House. Joseph Anthony Roach shared the writing credit. Frank D. Williams photographed it, and Herbert Warren edited it.
Themes
Look
Frank D. Williams photographed the film in Fort Lee, New Jersey, including shots at Palisades Amusement Park.
Preservation
A damaged print was found in 1998 at the Norwegian Film Archive, stored in an unmarked can with The Cook (1918). George Eastman House holds a 35 mm positive.
Notes
- Al St. John plays the rival, Corinne Parquet the wife, Agnes Neilson the mother-in-law, and Alice Lake the girl in the park.
- Joe Bordeaux is the newsreel director, uncredited on some prints.
- The copy on Wikimedia Commons carries Norwegian intertitles and runs 26 minutes and 18 seconds.
Scenes
- A newsreel camera records the husband's flirtation and the brawl in the park.
- The same fight breaks out in the theater aisle while it plays on the screen.
Also available
- National Library of Norway
- George Eastman House
