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Leading Lizzie Astray

  • 1914
  • 12m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
226
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Minta Durfee in Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
ComedyShort

A city slicker is driving through a small town when his car has a flat. A local boy and his girlfriend walk by and the boy volunteers to fix the man's tire. While he's doing that, the city s... Read allA city slicker is driving through a small town when his car has a flat. A local boy and his girlfriend walk by and the boy volunteers to fix the man's tire. While he's doing that, the city slicker makes a move on the boy's girlfriend and persuades her to go back to the city with ... Read allA city slicker is driving through a small town when his car has a flat. A local boy and his girlfriend walk by and the boy volunteers to fix the man's tire. While he's doing that, the city slicker makes a move on the boy's girlfriend and persuades her to go back to the city with him. After she leaves, her boyfriend packs up and goes to the city to try to win her back.

  • Director
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  • Stars
    • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Minta Durfee
    • Ed Brady
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    226
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Stars
      • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
      • Minta Durfee
      • Ed Brady
    • 6User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
    • Fatty - A Farm Boy
    Minta Durfee
    Minta Durfee
    • Lizzie - The Farm Boy's Fiancée
    Ed Brady
    Ed Brady
    • A City Slicker
    Mack Swain
    Mack Swain
    • Cafe Patron - In from the Mines
    Charley Chase
    Charley Chase
    • Cafe Patron - In from the Mines
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • The Slicker's Chauffeur
    Billie Bennett
    • Lizzie's Mother
    Fritz Schade
    • Lizzie's Father
    Glen Cavender
    Glen Cavender
    • Cafe Proprietor
    Dan Albert
    • Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Phyllis Allen
    • Amorous Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Cecile Arnold
    • Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Bordeaux
    • Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Carruthers
    • Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Dixie Chene
    Dixie Chene
    • Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Jess Dandy
    • Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Ted Edwards
    • Sailor Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Vivian Edwards
    • Dancing Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Included in "The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle" DVD collection, released by Mackinac Media and Laughsmith Entertainment.
    • Quotes

      A City Slicker: Come to the city with me.

    • Connections
      Featured in Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 1 (1943)

    User reviews6

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    6/10
    Another modestly successful, Keystone cheapie
    Leading Lizzie Astray, one of the many Fatty Arbuckle shorts produced for the film company Keystone, opens with a city slicker (Ed Brady) driving through town when his car gets a flat tire. A local boy (Arbuckle) and his fiancée (Minta Durfee), who happen to walk by, lend a hand to the man, who proceeds to try and pick up the boy's fiancée. The man attempts to get the woman to venture back to town with her, an offer she accepts, for she sees the glamor of the city being more attractive than her options at home, much to the dismay of the boy. Depressed and lonely, the boy attempts to win back his wife by venturing into the big city.

    Leading Lizzie Astray gets a lot of early silent filmmaking conventions down right, from the quick editing to the cheap but effective special effects (there's a great scene of a piano crashing into a wall), but forgets the magic of the formula that this story provides. When the local boy travels to the city, he is a fish walking on land, and Arbuckle, who serves as writer/director here, forgets to incorporate that kind of alienation into his story. It's a frustrating feature, and it could've saved the film from being an assembly of slapstick comedy.

    Early Keystone shorts were known for their scuzzy aesthetic and bare-bones plot, yet some quality standard has to be achieved with these films. Arbuckle is one of several early comedians who never got his recognition, mostly due to a murder allegation, and with that, Leading Lizzie Astray is one that was inevitably swept under the rug as one of his weaker offerings.

    Starring: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, and Ed Brady. Directed by: Roscoe Arbuckle.
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    • Release date
      • November 30, 1914 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Угон дешевого автомобильчика
    • Production company
      • Keystone Film Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      12 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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