Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
Stunts
Keaton's debut — already taking brutal falls.
Practical Effects
Rube Goldberg stage machinery gone gloriously wrong.
Acting
Arbuckle and Keaton's instant comic chemistry.
Director
Roscoe Arbuckle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Keaton's first screen appearance; he was 21 and had already survived a tornado literally ripping him from the ground as a child.
Arbuckle's 'backstage' comedies popularized the meta-theatrical gag of performers becoming their own destruction — Keaton would perfect this in SHERLOCK JR. five years later.
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