Mabel, Fatty and the Law

1915 Comedy 11 minutes Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

About Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Mabel catches her husband Fatty flirting with the maid, and the row that follows sends them to the park to make up. A second couple, Hubby and his wife, has just had the same kind of fight and heads for the same park. The four keep colliding, and the policemen close in.

Cast & crew

More about Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Roscoe Arbuckle directed and plays Fatty. Mack Sennett produced the Keystone short. It is also known as Fatty's Spooning Days and as Fatty, Mabel and the Law. It was released on January 18, 1915.

Themes

Making

Arbuckle was directing his own Keystone comedies by 1915, with Normand still his most frequent partner and Sennett still the producer.

Preservation

A print survives and is on the Internet Archive under the title Fatty's Spooning Days.

Notes

  • Mabel Normand plays Fatty's wife. Minta Durfee plays Hubby's wife. Harry Gribbon plays Hubby.
  • Also in the cast: Al St. John, Alice Davenport, Frank Hayes, Glen Cavender, Joe Bordeaux, and Josef Swickard.
  • The Internet Archive copy is filed under the alternate title Fatty's Spooning Days.
  • A print survives.

Scenes

  • Mabel walks in on Fatty and the maid.
  • Both couples try to make up in the same park and keep crossing paths.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (FattysSpooningDays_888)