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Voidsville Follies

Works by Louise Fazenda (2)

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead)
Edgar Kennedy (lead)
Louise Fazenda (lead)
Josef Swickard (lead)
Frank Hayes (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jul 1915
Minutes: 28

Part One starts out with some routine mother-in-law bits but ends with strikingly dark comedy: a large man on an alcohol-fueled rampage threatening a small elderly woman is an unlikely source of humor. Part Two is an inversion of the standard invasion-call-rescue pattern made famous by a slew of Griffith films (and other Keystone parodies). But here the “invasion” is unwitting - as is the distress call - and the race to rescue is made by the wife to save the husband. It works as a clever parody, effectively using closeups, even though laughs are few.

Featured elements:

: abuse; bad cop; bimbo; chase; comedy; crazy cops; dark comedy; distress call; drunken warrior; falsely accused; family; farce; fighting; parody; slapstick

Bombs!/Bombs and Brides

Frank Griffin (director)
Louise Fazenda (lead)
Charles Murray (lead)
Mary Thurman (lead)
Wayland Trask (lead)
Harry Booker (lead)
Edgar Kennedy (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1916
Minutes: 25

A surprise from Keystone: an actual story, that's even impressively tight. Surely must be lifted from somewhere. Add in a car chase, Italian bombers du jour, and a diving horse and you've got a bona-fide Keystone.

Featured elements:

: animal act; automobile; bombers; chase; comedy; corruption; ethnic stereotype; family; farce; female avenger; forbidden love; identity mix-up; politician; rescue; slapstick; social commentary; unrequited love

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