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An Incompetent Hero
Also known as Fatty’s Indiscretion in the USA
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [Fatty], Edgar Kennedy [Fatty’s neighbor], Lucille Ward [the neighbor’s wife], Minta Durfee [the neighbor’s maid], Al St. John [the burglar], Josef Swickard [the police chief], Ted Edwards [a policeman], Richard Smith [a policeman], Slim Summerville [a man in the police station]
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / © 12 November 1914 by The Keystone Film Company. Released 12 November 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Wrong Room. [?] Completed or shipped? on 25 October 1914.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Fatty admires the young pianist and singer in the apartment across the way, and the notes he casts through her window enrage her husband, who does not appreciate his wife’s talent. He threatens Fatty. That same night a burglar gets into the pianist’s apartment while her husband is out. Summoned to the rescue, Fatty crosses one window to another on a clothesline, with the worthy intention of chastising the thief. He has the misfortune, however, to land in the lady’s room, where he is found by her returning husband. Quite a commotion follows, until the husband’s bullets give out. The burglar, meanwhile, has escaped to the cellar, whence he makes his getaway.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 21 November 1914, page ?] Fatty flirts with a married woman across the way. Later, when a burglar appears he crosses a rope into her room. A rough-house ensues with some laughable moments in it. This is well photographed throughout.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 November 2022.
References: Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 254; Lahue-Kops p. 149; Lahue-Mack p. 297 : Website-IMDb.
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