Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
** (out of 4)
Keystone comedy has a city boy's car breaking down in the country where he talks a young woman in running off with him to the city. All is fine until her boyfriend (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle) finds out and comes looking for her. LEADING LIZZIE ASTRAY is a major disappointment when you consider all of the talent it has in it. Not only do you get Arbuckle but Minta Durfee plays the girl and we get supporting bits with Charley Chase, Al St. John and Edgar Kennedy. I will at least give this film credit for trying to tell a story, which is something a lot of these Keystone films didn't even bother with. This one here should have made for some great jokes as you had the city going against the country but they never did anything with this. There's really not even much attempt at making any comedy until the very end when the city boy starts to attack the girl just as Arbuckle shows up to stop it. The majority of the movie features very little in regards to action or laughs, which is a shame because of the cast.
** (out of 4)
Keystone comedy has a city boy's car breaking down in the country where he talks a young woman in running off with him to the city. All is fine until her boyfriend (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle) finds out and comes looking for her. LEADING LIZZIE ASTRAY is a major disappointment when you consider all of the talent it has in it. Not only do you get Arbuckle but Minta Durfee plays the girl and we get supporting bits with Charley Chase, Al St. John and Edgar Kennedy. I will at least give this film credit for trying to tell a story, which is something a lot of these Keystone films didn't even bother with. This one here should have made for some great jokes as you had the city going against the country but they never did anything with this. There's really not even much attempt at making any comedy until the very end when the city boy starts to attack the girl just as Arbuckle shows up to stop it. The majority of the movie features very little in regards to action or laughs, which is a shame because of the cast.