His Wedding Night
About His Wedding Night
A soda clerk at a drugstore drugs customers with chloroform in the perfume and fights a donkey. He proposes to his boss's daughter, Alice. Al, another employee, wants her too. She turns the clerk down. Buster delivers her wedding gown and tries it on. Al, meaning to kidnap Alice, rides off with Buster. The clerk chases them and nearly pays a justice of the peace to marry him to the delivery boy. He marries Alice, then drugs the justice with the perfume and takes the money back.
Cast & crew
More about His Wedding Night
Roscoe Arbuckle wrote, directed, and plays the soda clerk. George Peters photographed it. Herbert Warren edited it. Paramount released it on August 20, 1917. Wikipedia gives 19 minutes. Al St. John plays the rival. Buster Keaton plays the delivery boy. Alice Mann plays Alice. Josephine Stevens is a customer. Alice Lake is billed. Natalie Talmadge is an uncredited woman in a car.
Themes
Making
Arbuckle put Keaton in the wedding dress so the kidnapping takes the wrong person.
Look
George Peters shot the drugstore, the donkey, and the ride with the gown.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The perfume is the chloroform. He uses it on customers and, at the end, on the justice.
- Keaton is kidnapped because he has the gown on.
- The donkey is one of the clerk's fights before the wedding.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as HisWeddingNight.
Scenes
- Keaton models the wedding gown and is carried off.
- Arbuckle drugs the justice and takes the fee back.
Also available
- Internet Archive (HisWeddingNight)
