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Cast overview: | |||
John Bunny | ... | Fatty aka Kitty | |
Robert Gaillard | ... | Pink | |
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Eagle Eye | ... | Indian |
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Edward Elkas | ... | Cowboy |
James Morrison | ... | Cowboy |
Life on the ranch has a heap of fun attached to it and where they can get hold of a good-natured butt like "Fatty" they are always happy and they keep him guessing and make him the subject of their pranks. "Fatty" stands their joshing and kidding without complaint and generally with a smile, but notwithstanding his seeming good nature, he is looking for a chance to get lack at them. He and his friend "Pink" arrange a scheme by framing up a letter from the County Court, calling "Fatty" for jury duty and at the same time they get the telegraph operator to send him a telegram saying his sister will arrive from the east the next day. "Fatty" shows these communications to the bunch and they at once begin to make overtures to him for an introduction to his sister when she arrives and express a desire to be made her especial custodian. "Fatty" delegates "Pink" to receive her and introduce her to the boys, during his absence at the County Seat at the hour of her arrival. "Pink" hitches up the... Written by Moving Picture World synopsis
This film is not the best comedy of the week, but there is always plenty of humor in the rough though good-natured horseplay of the cowboys in it, and it faithfully reproduces a number of entertaining schemes. The way the butt of all their jokes, Fatty, succeeds in getting even is amusing. He dresses as a woman, having previously announced that his sister would arrive on a certain date. The supposed woman deceived each one of them and turns the trick very neatly. But they end up by ducking the joker in the watering trough nearby. The audience laughed and seemed to enjoy it. - The Moving Picture World, November 4, 1911