Peeping Pete
About Peeping Pete
Pete looks through a knothole at the neighbor's wife. The neighbor, played by Ford Sterling, catches him. The chase runs through town, with the sheriff and the neighbors in it. Pete's wife, played by Roscoe Arbuckle, is pulled into the scramble.
Cast & crew
More about Peeping Pete
Mack Sennett directed and produced it, and plays Pete. Keystone released it on 23 June 1913. A listing gives 7 minutes. A timed copy runs 5 minutes 45 seconds. Roscoe Arbuckle plays Pete's wife. Ford Sterling plays the neighbor. Nick Cogley plays the sheriff.
Themes
Making
Sennett put himself at the fence and Sterling in the chase. Arbuckle's part is the wife who gets dragged in.
Preservation
Prints survive.
Notes
- Phyllis Allen, Charles Avery, Peggy Pearce, and Dot Farley are billed.
- Arbuckle is in women's clothes as the wife, not as Pete.
- The short is a chase picture built on one knothole.
- A timed copy is 5 minutes 45 seconds against a 7-minute listing.
Scenes
- Pete watches through the knothole.
- Sterling spots him and the chase starts.
- Arbuckle, as the wife, is swept into the run.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Peeping Pete (1913).webm)
