Fatty’s Magic Pants
AKA Fatty’s Suitless Day in the USA
(1914) American
B&W : One reel
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [Fatty], Minta Durfee [the girl], Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) [Fatty’s rival], Bert Roach [party guest], Harry McCoy [party guest], Al St. John [party guest], George Summerville (Slim Summerville) [policeman]

Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / © 14 December 1914 by Keystone Film Company. Released 14 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Borrowed Dress. [?] Completed or shipped? on 2 December 1914. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA as Fatty’s Suitless Day by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Arrests - Barrels - Canes - Chases - Clothes lines - Dances - Fights - Furniture: Beds - Hats: Top hats - Jews: Jewish tailors - Love triangles - Mirrors - Newspapers - Police: Night sticks, Policemen - Pranks - Screen doors - Scrub boards - Street scenes - Underwear - Wash tubs - Weapons: Guns, Knives

Listing updated: 27 March 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 255; Lahue-Triangle p. 136; Lahue-Kops pp. 122h, 150; Lahue-Mack p. 297.

Home Video: DVD.