Leading Lizzie Astray
About Leading Lizzie Astray
A city slicker (Ed Brady) has a flat tire in a small town. Farm boy Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) offers to fix it while he is out walking with his fiancée Lizzie (Minta Durfee). The slicker talks Lizzie into leaving for the city. Fatty packs up and follows her.
Cast & crew
More about Leading Lizzie Astray
Arbuckle directed and starred. Mack Sennett produced. Mutual distributed the one-reeler. Keystone copyrighted it on 30 November 1914, the release date. The working title was The Country Girl. Silent Era notes it was shipped to Mutual's New York office on 18 November 1914. Edgar Kennedy plays the chauffeur. Fritz Schade and Billie Bennett play Lizzie's parents.
Themes
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Silent Era lists prints at Blackhawk Films and in private collections, including 8mm reduction copies.
Notes
- The cafe half of the cast includes Mack Swain, Charley Chase, Al St. John, Phyllis Allen, Slim Summerville, and Glen Cavender as the proprietor.
- Silent Era says cast credits for Billy Gilbert, Steve Murphy, and Leo White that appear on some lists are mistakes.
- A trade note of the time called it a roar from start to finish and one of the funniest Keystone shorts, without naming the paper on the Wikipedia page.
Scenes
- Fatty works on the tire while the slicker talks to Lizzie.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-leading-lizzie-astray)
