A Change of Pace: Fatty Arbuckle as Cleopatra

The Cook. Dir. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Perf. Buster Keaton and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. 1918. DVD. The Cook and Other Treasures. Image Entertainment, 2003.

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This film derivitive of Anthony and Cleopatra won't be found in any of the scholarly textbooks, though I can't imagine why it isn't. It's clearly a re-enactment of the death scene of Shakespeare's (and not just history's) Cleopatra!

N.B.: Notice the clever use of sausages-as-asp:

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Links: The Film at IMDB.

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