Fatty's New Role
- IMDb link: 0005314
- IMDb rating: 5.7 (345 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Cast: Mack Swain, Slim Summerville, Joe Bordeaux and others
- Release date: 1 Feb 1915
- Release year: 1915
- Runtime: 13 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: slapstick comedy, comedy of errors, hobo, sleeping in a stable, broken mirror, bar, denied reentry, escorted out, sponge, newspaper headlines
Plot:
Fatty's a harmless hobo. When he tries to cadge hooch and a free lunch at Ambrose Schnitz's bar, Herr Schnitz ejects him. Someone has been blowing up the taverns of people who treat penniless folks unkindly, so Schnitz's patrons play a trick on the publican, leaving a note that the place will blow up at 3 that afternoon. Schnitz thinks Fatty is the culprit. At two minutes to three, Fatty shows up with a cheese that he's bought with generous alms a swell tosses his way. Schnitz thinks the cheese is a bomb, and he runs for the cops. Fatty has the bar to himself.