A Desert Hero
| A Desert Hero | |
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| Directed by | Roscoe Arbuckle |
| Written by | Fatty Arbuckle |
| Starring | Fatty Arbuckle |
Production company | Comique Film Company |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.[1] The film is considered to be lost.[2]
Plot
[edit]Arbuckle plays a miner who has struck gold. He comes into a frontier town called Carbolic Camp looking for a good time. The town is wild and woolly; anybody who takes the job of sheriff is killed within minutes. Looking to change his gold into cash, Arbuckle enters Hyena Hall, a dancehall run by an enormous bully named Bullneck Bradley. The locals scheme to steal his gold. The star dancing girl refuses to be part of the scheme and is thrown out into the street.
Arbuckle gets into a fight with the town bully; when he wins, he is elected sheriff. He falls in love with the dancing girl, who reforms and joins the Salvation Army. While the Salvation Army is holding a meeting in front of the dancehall, Arbuckle overhears the dancehall owner making disparaging remarks. They fight; Arbuckle wins and makes everyone present join the Salvation Army.[3][4]
Cast
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- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as The Sheriff, the Desert Hero
- Al St. John as The Bad Man
- Molly Malone as The Young Girl
- Monte Collins as The Old Man
- John Henry Coogan Jr. (credited as John Coogan)
- Alice Lake
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: A Desert Hero". Silent Era. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- ^ Neibaur, James L. (2007), Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7864-2831-1
- ^ "Arbuckle Burlesque on Western 'Melos'". The Tennessean. June 22, 1919. p. 14. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ^ "'Fatty' Becomes Sheriff". The Baltimore Sun. June 22, 1919. p. 52. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
External links
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- 1919 films
- 1919 comedy films
- 1919 short films
- Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
- American silent short films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent American comedy films
- Films with screenplays by Roscoe Arbuckle
- Paramount Pictures films
- Lost American comedy films
- American comedy short films
- 1919 lost films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- English-language short films