Fatty and Mabel Adrift
About Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Farm boy Fatty marries Mabel. They honeymoon, with his dog Luke, in a cottage on the beach. That night at high tide, the jilted Hiram Perkins and his men cut the house loose. Fatty and Mabel wake to find the cottage in the ocean and the bedroom filling with water.
Cast & crew
More about Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Arbuckle wrote and directed. Sennett supervised, with Dave Anderson as assistant director. Triangle Film Corporation released it on January 9, 1916, as Triangle number T-20. Three reels, 2,674 feet. Working title House at Sea. The print is color-tinted and toned. Copyright dates are January 10 and January 14, 1916.
Themes
Making
Beach scenes were shot on a California shore and the rest at the Edendale Keystone plant. The cottage-at-sea gag is the set piece the working title named.
Reviews
Variety (1916) called it amusing, with new effects and less of the usual messy slapstick, and quoted the lightning storm and the breakers. The same review said Al St. John was below his usual Keystone work and that the picture was "a sure laugh maker" and "fairly clean."
Look
The sea sequence uses a staged lightning storm and shots of breakers, in a print that was tinted and toned.
Preservation
Prints are held by Blackhawk Films, the Lobster Films collection at FPA France, and Gierucki Studios.
Notes
- Al St. John plays the jilted rival. Frank Hayes and Mai Wells are Mabel's parents. Wayland Trask is Brutus Bombastic. Glen Cavender is the realtor I. Landem.
- A piece of the film later circulated on 8mm as Concrete Biscuits.
- Variety in 1916 singled out a lightning storm and shots of breakers, and noted that the direction was praised without the review naming Arbuckle as director.
Scenes
- The cottage floats and water comes into the bedroom.
- A lightning storm plays over the house at sea.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-fatty-and-mabel-adrift)
