The Cook

(1918)

22 minutes.

Comedy / Silent

Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Buster Keaton

One of the earliest Comedy Films is 1918’s “The Cook”, directed by its star, Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle and released by Comique Film Company.  The twenty-two minute silent film is a classic slapstick comedy about the highjinks at an expensive restaurant where ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle is the cook and Buster Keaton is a waiter.  It includes a scene where ‘Fatty’ is dressed in drag and dancing, a parody of Theda Bara’s film “Salomé”.