Screenplay: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Bell Boy

1918 · Movie · 33 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

6.2

226 votes

6.2

226 votes

Out West

1918 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

6.2

160 votes

6.2

160 votes

Coney Island (S)

1917 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

6.1

206 votes

6.1

206 votes

The Cook (S)

1918 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef of a fancy oceanside restaurant and his assistant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.

6.1

196 votes

6.1

196 votes

Good Night, Nurse!

1918 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.

6.0

159 votes

6.0

159 votes

The Butcher Boy

1917 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Josephine Stevens

Synopsis The story involves Arbuckle working as the butcher boy in a country store. He falls in love with the cashier, who is the daughter of the store owner. He follows her, disguised as a female cousin, to an all-girl boarding...

5.9

279 votes

5.9

279 votes

His Wedding Night (S)

1917 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Mann

Synopsis In a drugdstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

5.7

192 votes

5.7

192 votes

Moonshine (S)

1918 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis A satire of stage melodrama (heroes, villains, narrow escapes). Roscoe and Buster are looking for moonshiners in Virginia. Roscoe is captured and put in a cabin which is blown up by dynamite (then saved when he, as director, runs the...

5.6

120 votes

5.6

120 votes

The Rough House (S)

1917 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John · Alice Lake

Synopsis Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.

5.4

258 votes

5.4

258 votes

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

1916 · Movie · 34 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mabel Normand · Joe Bordeaux · Al St. John

Synopsis The beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.

5.2

24 votes

5.2

24 votes

Love (S)

1919 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Monty Banks · Frank Hayes · Kate Price

Synopsis "Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" has less then one...

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Half Shot at Sunrise

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · George MacFarlane

Synopsis The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.

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Fool's Luck (S)

1926 · Movie · 15 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Lupino Lane · George Davis · Virginia Vance · Jack Lloyd

Synopsis Percy lives in a luxuriously furnished apartment, but financially he is completely dependent on his rich uncle. Soon after inviting his girlfriend and her father to dinner, Percy receives a telegram from his uncle, who has decided to cut off...

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Camping Out

1919 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Al St. John · Alice Lake · Monty Banks

Synopsis Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife. His wife is furious when she discovers Fatty is cheating on her with a neglected wife.

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Curses! (S)

1925 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Grover Jones

Cast Al St. John · Bartine Burkett · Walter C. Reed · John Sinclair

Synopsis Buckwheat Ben has some papers that the villainous Buttonshoe Bill and his gang are planning to steal. Bill sneaks into Ben's cabin, renders Ben unconscious, and steals the papers. Ben's daughter Nell is horrified when she discovers the crimes, and...

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He Did and He Didn't (S)

1916 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Mabel Normand · William Jefferson · Al St. John

Synopsis A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood friend Jack is more than just a friend. Jack's intentions are honorable, but everything he does tends to show his actions in a...

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The Cuckoos

1930 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Jobyna Howland

Synopsis Fake fortune teller Professor Bird and his assistant Sparrow are in a Mexican resort near a gambling casino. Sparrow has fallen for Anita, an American girl who has lived with gypsies since she was four. But the gypsy leader Julius...

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