His Wedding Night is the third Fatty Arbuckle/Buster Keaton collaboration of 1917, and by far the worst so far. This one involves Fatty Arbuckle making an egg cream, indulging in mild racism and homophobia, date raping a woman, and sticking his head up a horse’s arse.
I did not like this one at all, although Buster Keaton looks quite fetching in a wedding dress.
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Notes
1. I watched this on Blu-Ray again. I grabbed the screenshot from this youtube version.
2. Which appears to be the same as the version in the boxset, actually, with the same soundtrack.
3. I was going to be as charitable as I could and say this was “of its time”.
4. But it’s not really.
5. It’s just a bit shit.
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Film Information
Title: His Wedding Night
Directors: Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton
Year: 1917
Duration: 20 minutes
Watch: youtube