Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Name: Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1914
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minnie Devereaux, Minta Durfee, Josef Swickard, Harry McCoy

1914 Comedy 21 minutes Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

About Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty steals a ride on a train. A railroad man finds him and puts him off in open country. He collapses in the heat. Minnie, played by Minnie Devereaux, finds him, takes him to her tepee, and presses a marriage. While the camp prepares the ceremony he tries to run and is caught.

Cast & crew

More about Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Arbuckle directed. Sennett produced. Mutual released the two-reeler on December 21, 1914. Copyrighted December 19. Working title: The Squaw's Man. A print runs about 21 minutes.

Themes

put off a train
a forced wedding
an escape that fails
Minnie Devereaux
train
Keystone
two reels
1914

Preservation

A 16mm print is held by George Eastman House.

Notes

Minta Durfee and Josef Swickard are in the cast, with Harry McCoy as a barfly and Slim Summerville as the railroad employee.
A 16mm print is at George Eastman House. Sunrise Silents issued it on DVD; that label later closed.