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词条 The Cook
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Preservation status and restoration

  3. Cast

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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| name = The Cook
| image = The cook poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Film poster
| director = Roscoe Arbuckle
| producer = Joseph M. Schenck
| writer = Roscoe Arbuckle
| narrator =
| starring = Roscoe Arbuckle
Buster Keaton
Al St. John
Alice Lake
Glen Cavender
| music =
| cinematography = George Peters
| editing = Herbert Warren
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1918|09|15|ref1=[1]}}
| runtime = 22 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
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The Cook is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton and Al St. John. The movie is a slapstick comedy and focuses on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter.

The film is notable for a scene spoofing the 1918 Theda Bara film Salomé, with Arbuckle dancing around with a length of sausage links and pots and pans. It also contains many of Arbuckle's favorite food gags and some well-received work by Keaton.[2]

Plot

Fatty is the head chef at the "Bull Pup" restaurant where Keaton serves as the head waiter. One evening while service is in full flow Keaton and Fatty entertain the crowd with their dancing (despite breaking most of the plates and bottles in the restaurant in the process). The fun is soon spoiled when a vagrant (St. John), referred to as "Holdup Man" in the film's credits, comes in and begins ruining everyone's good time and dancing with the waitress (Alice Lake) against her will. Fatty, Keaton and the manager are no match for Holdup Man but he is subsequently scared off by Luke, Fatty's dog. Later, Fatty and Keaton join a pair of gentlemen in the restaurant for a big plate of spaghetti, not being able to replicate the correct way of eating it they resort to their own methods of eating one string at a time and cutting the pasta with scissors to make it shorter.

The next day Fatty plans a fishing trip with Luke while Keaton simultaneously takes the waitress on a date to the amusement park. Fatty takes a shortcut through the park and knocks several people out with his exceptionally long fishing rod before arriving on the beach. The waitress gets separated from Keaton and is chased around the park by Holdup Man and ends up falling off the top of a roller coaster, falling into the sea. Holdup man is chased off by Luke yet again and Fatty and Keaton attempt to rescue the waitress but find that the key to a flotation device is "in a courthouse one mile east". Acting fast, they grab a rope to throw to the waitress but Keaton falls off the pier still holding the rope and drags Fatty in with him.

Preservation status and restoration

The movie was believed to be a lost film for several decades before a damaged nitrate print was uncovered in the Norwegian Film Archive in 1998 in an unmarked canister with A Reckless Romeo (1917).[3] Another print, with 600 additional feet of footage (about eight minutes), was found in the Netherlands in 2002, and the two were combined, using the synopsis from the Library of Congress as a guide to create the restored version, although there are still missing scenes.[3][4] This version is currently available on the DVD The Cook and Other Treasures.

Cast

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Chef
  • Buster Keaton - Assistant Chef
  • Al St. John - Holdup Man
  • Alice Lake - Waitress / Cashier
  • Glen Cavender
  • Luke the Dog

See also

  • List of American films of 1918
  • Fatty Arbuckle filmography
  • Buster Keaton filmography
  • List of rediscovered films

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Knopf|first=Robert|title=The theater and cinema of Buster Keaton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fU5qDx7tawIC&pg=PA181|accessdate=21 October 2010|date=2 August 1999|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-00442-6|page=181}}
2. ^{{Citation | last = Neibaur | first = James L. | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations | place = Jefferson, North Carolina | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers | year = 2007 | volume = | edition = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn= 978-0-7864-2831-1 | quote = }}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Restoring highlights of bygone eras |author=Susan King |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 17, 2003 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/17/entertainment/et-king17}}
4. ^{{cite DVD |title=The genius of Buster Keaton: the short films collection DVD |accessdate=25 June 2011 |date=2010 |publisher=Kino}}

External links

{{commons category}}
  • {{IMDb title|id=0008975|title=The Cook}}
  • {{Internet Archive film|id=CASACLBusterKeatonTheCook}}
  • {{Amg movie|141609|The Cook}}
  • The Cook at the International Buster Keaton Society
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