Fatty Joins the Force
- IMDb link: 0002851
- IMDb rating: 5.3 (473 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Lou Breslow, George Nichols
- Cast: Charles Avery, Harry DeRoy and others
- Release date: 24 Nov 1913
- Release year: 1913
- Runtime: 12 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: male police officer, child in jeopardy, knocked unconscious, woman in jeopardy, one reeler, wife leaves her husband, stealing clothes from swimmer, comedy of errors, mistaken belief that someone is dead, hero in jail
Plot:
Fatty and his wife are walking through the park when suddenly they see a little girl fall into the lake. It's Fatty to the rescue! But his wife has to push him into the job. Literally: she pushes him into the lake. Fatty saves the girl, who turns out to be the police commissioner's daughter. Fatty's reward is a job on the police force. At first he's thrilled, but the job proves to be more trouble than it's worth. His first duty is to break up a fistfight between two young men, but one of them knocks him out cold. Later, a group of mischievous boys harass him, even hitting him in the face with a pie. Still later, they steal his clothes as he goes swimming. The practical joke sets off a chain of events that lead to two old ladies mistaking him for a wild man and his uniformed fellows believing him to be drowned.
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