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Hello Roscoe: The Fate of Fatty Arbuckle (2008)
*** (out of 4)
This featurette can be found on the Hollywood CAVALCADE disc and features an interview with Patricia Eliot Tobias about the career of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Considering this thing runs a very brief six-minutes there's really nothing discussed in great detail. We're basically told Fatty was at the top of his game when everything came crashing down due to a party where actress Virginia Rappe died. We hear about the three trials, him being found guilty but Hollywood turned their back on him as did the public until making a quick comeback at Vitaphone. As you can tell, even if you know very little about Arbuckle it's doubtful you're going to learn anything new here but I must admit that I enjoyed the interview and getting to see anything newly published on the man. I wish that the featurette had gone into more details but as it stands it's basically just a starting off point for new people to perhaps gain an interest in the man and then check out his films.
*** (out of 4)
This featurette can be found on the Hollywood CAVALCADE disc and features an interview with Patricia Eliot Tobias about the career of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Considering this thing runs a very brief six-minutes there's really nothing discussed in great detail. We're basically told Fatty was at the top of his game when everything came crashing down due to a party where actress Virginia Rappe died. We hear about the three trials, him being found guilty but Hollywood turned their back on him as did the public until making a quick comeback at Vitaphone. As you can tell, even if you know very little about Arbuckle it's doubtful you're going to learn anything new here but I must admit that I enjoyed the interview and getting to see anything newly published on the man. I wish that the featurette had gone into more details but as it stands it's basically just a starting off point for new people to perhaps gain an interest in the man and then check out his films.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Dec 14, 2012
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