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Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
Oh, Doctor!
1917 Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
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¡Oh, doctor! (Fatty doctor), Oh, Doctor, Fatty docteur, Доктор Ох, Боли, 噢！医生, О, Доктор!, Oi Doutor!, Doktorze!, Och, doktore!
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Nope, Fatty is not funny in this one.
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not funny didn't laugh but that short period in the 1910's before buster fully settled into being expressionless is so important to me
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Another silent comedy short featuring (but not starring or directed by) Buster Keaton before he became famous. Also another case of "Fatty" Arbuckle trying to get laughs out of an unlikable character: he spends the whole film flirting with other women (he's married with a child) and beating his son when he calls attention to his emasculation. Keaton (the son) spends most of the film crying.
There's a few more of these in the collection, but I don't think I can take another 20-minute frustration at the moment. On to real Keaton.
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The horse is superior to man. 100 thousand men will go see a horse race, but not a single horse would go see 100 thousand men run.
Makes sense.
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Roscoe Arbuckle’s comedic persona has none of the sweetness or vulnerability of the giants who would dominate the decade following his own heyday – Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd. I mean, he sticks a tie pin into his son’s leg to make him scream in pain and divert his wife’s attention so he can sit next to a woman who’s flirting with him, for god’s sake, and that’s not the only abuse he doles out. He gambles at the racetrack, using beer bottles for binoculars and gripping the legs of both his wife and another woman in his excitement. He dispenses potent alcoholic beverages while making a house call as a doctor more readily than medicine. There is…
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A rather dull and uninteresting Fatty Arbuckle comedy short. Nothing here is particular funny or memorable. Skip it.
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"If we don't have an epidemic soon, we'll be out begging!"
Oh, you'll get your wish, Dr. I.O. Dine.
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It’s fun seeing Buster be so expressive, dressed up as a kid, and screaming a lot. Fatty’s a bit of a shit doctor, but he can whistle and have his car return to him like a trained horse, and after you master that I kinda feel like you get a lot of passes.
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Roscoe plays Dr. I.O. Dine, a philandering child abuser. The woman he’s making a play for is hooked up with a thief and together they conspire to fleece Roscoe and his long suffering bride of a cool necklace. There’s a stupid gambling side-plot in here too.
Buster plays the abused son. He gets punched and stabbed a few times and cries a lot.Not a great one.
The piano by Antonio Coppola is superb
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Fourth Arbuckle-Keaton comedy has Fatty playing a Doctor with a gambling habit and Buster as his son. The jokes are pretty solid: the first half is set at the race track, and there are a couple of good gags involving cars, and Fatty bets on the worst racing horse in history. Working on location away from the confines of the studio definitely works best for these comedians.
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Buster as the wining kid son of a pretty asshole Roscoe, now that’s something I can call it unique to watch. And even at that, both of them bring the laughs forward, even if most of Keaton here is repetitive crying and very few of his true artistic talents of physical gag (which are here, though…not as much to be called a real Keaton show. Leaving most of the heavy scene lifting (if you read that as a fat-guy’s pum you’re cruel!), to Roscoe, and in what most disagree, he’s pretty funny here, being as usually highly energetic and making crack few smiles just with his expressions. Even if the plot isn’t the most appealing or provides much comedy on…
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Arbuckle stuff. Buster Keaton drops more hints about what his childhood -- or at least his preteen stage persona -- was like*.
* See also: The Boat, 1923.