tavm Review of Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)

Fatty Tintype Tangle is another excellent Fatty Arbuckle comedy short

[10/10 · 30 July 2007]

Fatty's Tintype Tangle is another bulls-eye comedy short starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios. In this one, he's at home with his wife and mother-in-law. He loves his wife but can't stand her mother but tolerates her. That is, until he drinks some alcohol and tells her off as he storms out. He comes to a park bench and converses with Louise Fazenda who saves him from her needlepoint that he sits on. He like wise does the same for her and as they stand up and smile at each other, a photographer takes their picture. Both Fatty and Louise try to take the picture from him but he refuses until the mother-in-law forces it from him. Louise's husband Edgar Kennedy then discovers her with Fatty and threatens to shoot him. I'll stop right there and say what a slapstick mêlée that results for one of the most hilarious climaxes ever. Loved the scene when Arbuckle flies from a window to a telephone pole! Didn't like the scene that follows when he's walking on pole's wires. Good thing he didn't get killed! Otherwise, another excellent comedy short that should please any silent movie fans out there.