Leap Year (1921)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Directors:

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
James Cruze

Writers:

Sarah Y. Mason (story)
Walter Woods (writer)

Release Date:

27 April 1924 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble...

Plot Keywords:

Heir | Uncle | Nurse | Proposal | Swimming

Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle	...	Stanley Piper
Mary Thurman	...	Nurse Phyllis Brown
Lucien Littlefield	...	Jeremiah Piper
Clarence Geldart	...	Scott Travis
Harriet Hammond	...	Loris Keene
Allen Durnell	...	Tommy Blaine
Gertrude Short	...	Molly Morris
John McKinnon	...	Mumford, the valet
Maude Wayne	...	Irene Rutherford
Winifred Greenwood	...	Mrs. Travis

Also Known As:

Skirt Shy

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Until February 21, 2008, this film had never been shown theatrically to anyone in the American public because of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's murder trial, except for special screenings such as the ones in Los Angeles CA at the Fairfax Theatre 10 April 1981 and at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley CA on 22 August 1993.

Quotes:

Stanley Piper: This is our saddest case, a result of too many raisins.

And Don't Call Me Fatty!

The negative review of this little seen movie must come from somebody who is a huge Virginia Rappe fan. Leap Year is by no stretch a comic masterpiece but it has it's share of belly laughs. I didn't find that there was much jumping up and down and grimacing in front of the camera in this picture. Arbuckle is a very agile man who could pull off some nice stunts with the best of 'em. The compromising situations Arbuckle's character finds himself in is what sets the tone for the hilarity that ensues in Leap Year. Aside from this movie being shown in 1921 it hadn't been shown until some 60 years later. The picture has a beautiful tint to it and is recommended to fans of silent comedy.