A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Buster Keaton (left), Roscoe Arbuckle (above) and Al St. John. Photograph: courtesy Kino Lorber.

Cast: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (Roscoe Arbuckle) [the bartender], Buster Keaton [a gambler], Al St. John [Wild Bill Hickup], Alice Lake [Salvation Army woman], Joseph Keaton, Ernie Morrison

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [Paramount-Arbuckle Comedies]. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Natalie Talmadge. Scenario editor, Herbert Warren. Cinematography by George Peters. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 20 February 1918 by Comique Film Corporation [LP12211]. Released 20 January 1918. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3108. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in San Gabriel Canyon near Los Angeles, California, and at The Balboa Amusement Producing Company studio in Long Beach, California.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Bars - Hats - USA: California - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 10 November 2013.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 117; Dardis-Keaton p. 287; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 98, 262-263; Kerr-Silent p. 120; Miller-Comedies p. 16.

Home video: DVD.