Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

Name: Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1915
Duration: 13 min
Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Billie Bennett, Harry McCoy, Minta Durfee, Frank Hayes

1915 Comedy 13 minutes Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

About Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

Fatty and his wife spend the afternoon in a park. She will not buy him a soft drink, so he wanders off. A pickpocket and his girlfriend work the crowd. Fatty flirts with the woman while her partner goes for the wife's purse. A cop's double-takes do not sort it out.

Cast & crew

More about Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

Roscoe Arbuckle directed and plays Fatty. Mack Sennett produced. Mutual Film released the one-reeler on March 8, 1915. The working title was Fatty's Wife's Husband.

Themes

a park afternoon that turns into a theft
flirtation as cover for a pickpocket
Keystone
park
pickpocket
Fatty Arbuckle
Minta Durfee

Preservation

A print survives in the EYE Filmmuseum collection.

Notes

Billie Bennett plays Fatty's wife. Harry McCoy is the pickpocket and Minta Durfee his girlfriend. Frank Hayes is the cop.
A print with Dutch intertitles is held by the EYE Filmmuseum.