Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Knockout" (1914) - feat. Charlie Chaplin

Two down-and-out hoboes pretend to be pugilists in order to make some money to eat. One of them claims to be Cyclone Flynn, the boxing champion.

In the meantime Pug (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle), a good-hearted local strongman, has fought and defeated several mashers who were bothering his girlfriend. The mashers make up with Pug and propose to enter him to fight the fake Cyclone Flynn at a local theater.

Enter the real Cyclone Flynn (Edgar Kennedy), who expels the hoboes and takes over the engagement. The Referee (Charlie Chaplin) starts the fight. The referee hilariously gets involved in the fight during the second round. The fight quickly deteriorates into chaos, after Pug steals a gambler's revolvers and chases the champion from the ring.

A long chase sequence involving the boxers, spectators, Pug's Sweetheart (Minta Durfee), and the Keystone Cops follows.

A 1914 American Black & White silent comedy film (a/k/a "Counted Out") directed by Charles Avery, produced by Mack Sennett, written by Charlie Chaplin (uncredited), cinematography by Frank D. Williams, starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Opperman, Al St. John, Hank Mann, Mack Swain, and Luke the Dog.

Co-star Minta Durfee was Arbuckle's wife.

Many well known stars of the day have uncredited bit parts including Ford Sterling, Slim Summerville, and Charley Chase. Keystone owner Mack Sennett appears in a minor role as a spectator.

Charlie Chaplin has one scene playing the boxing referee during the fight. He wears the famous white face make-up and mustache of the Little Tramp but not the baggy clothes. It is one of only a few films in which Chaplin's Little Tramp character appears in a secondary role, not appearing until the second half of the film. Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian, and after a year, had not only established his Tramp character, learned to write and direct his own films, and also achieved public recognition as a star comedian. Although Keystone did not publicize its performers by name, standees of Chaplin's likeness outside theaters sufficed to attract audiences. Some of the films, especially Tillie's Punctured Romance, remained in theatrical distribution for decades. The fact that all but one of the Chaplin Keystones exist is due, of course, to the star's enormous subsequent popularity.

Silent film stars rarely shared top billing with another welll known star. When two stars appeared together it was usually because one was not as big a star as they would later become. Silent stars instead, preferred to repeatedly employ the same supporting actors in their films. The one silent star who seemed to enjoy sharing the screen with other actors was Fatty Arbuckle. Many of his early films were with Mabel Normand. He discovered and worked with Buster Keaton. He also worked several times with Charlie Chaplin.

Keystone co-stars Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle would each have tragic falls from grace.

Mabel Normand (1893-1930), born Amabel Ethelreid Normand n in New Brighton, New York (before it was incorporated into New York City as part of Staten Island), was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. On screen, she appeared in twelve successful films with Charlie Chaplin and seventeen with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, sometimes writing and directing (or co-writing and directing) films featuring Chaplin as her leading man. Normand's name was repeatedly linked with gun violence, including the 1922 murder of her friend, director William Desmond Taylor. The L.A. Police Dept. subjected Normand to a grueling interrogation but ruled her out as a suspect. In 1924, Normand's chauffeur Joe Kelly shot and wounded millionaire oil broker and amateur golfer Courtland S. Dines with her pistol. However, Dines was not fatally injured; he died of a heart attack in 1945, over two decades after the shooting. Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

A reviewer from Moving Picture World wrote, "Roscoe Arbuckle, ably supported, makes barrels of fun in this two-reel comedy release. In its early stages, the story has a particularly well connected plot, but things go to smash a little in this line when a big chase is introduced in the second reel. This chase, as well as a comedy prize fight, is unusually funny."

A predictable zany slapstick that plays with comedic tropes, featuring two of the most famous silent clowns early in their careers. Incredibly kinetic and fun. Typical for the Keystone shorts, it toys with the roles and personalities of its characters.

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