Good Night Nurse (1918)

A Fatty (Roscoe) Arbuckle and Buster Keaton silent film.

Arbuckle is a drunk, and in the opening scene he is outside a drug store in the teeming rain, trying to light his cigarette.

A thin, female figure struggling with an umbrella gets blown past him, and there is some business as he stops her and uses her umbrella as shelter to light up. The female figure is in fact played by Buster Keaton; they didn't employ extras and small part players in those days. It's impossible to recognise him in the still frame, but in motion you can recognise the body language very clearly.

Later, Arbuckle has been committed to a weird hospital for alcoholics, and in a bid to help a girl escape, he dresses in a nurse's clothes.

HF November 2002

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