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Coney Island is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Roscoe Arbuckle released in USA on 29 october 1917 with Roscoe Arbuckle
Coney Island (1917)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 29 october 1917
Length 24minutes
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Rating62%
Coney Island (also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 American silent short comedy film written and directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.
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The twenty-four minute film follows Arbuckle's antics at Coney Island, the New York City amusement park and beach resort, where he sneaks away from his wife to enjoy the attractions, gets a rival for another woman arrested, and disguises himself as a woman. The Keystone Kops are also featured.Actors
Roscoe Arbuckle
(Fatty)
Buster Keaton
(Rival / Cop with Moustache)
Al St. John
(Old Friend of Fatty's Wife (uncredited))
Jimmy Bryant
Joe Bordeaux
(Sledgehammer Man / Cop)
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As described in Exhibitors Herald, a film magazine, Dr. Fatty Holepoke (Arbuckle) bets all of his money on a horse and looses it. He becomes entangled in the meshes of a vampire (Mann), but when he hears the voice of "his master" (his wife), he finds himself in a serious predicament. With the assistance of a uniform stolen from a policeman, he manages to get away. He tries his luck again with the horses and wins lots of money. However, when he walks down the street wifie relieves him of all of it and leads him home, even though she is half his size.
The Waiters' Ball (1916)
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Rating67%
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, 23minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
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Genres Comedy
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Rating65%
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Rating66%
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Origin USA
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Rating56%
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, 21minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
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Rating63%
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