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List Price: $24.99Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.50 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381103526
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Silent, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 70 minutes
Sales Rank: 53905
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1918
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Editorial Review:
Description:
At the Bull Pup Cafe, Fatty Arbuckle is chef of all trades while Buster Keaton waits tables in own inimitable fashion. When a tough guy annoys the pretty cashier, Keaton comes to her defense with help from Luke the Dog, feisty canine defender of womanhood! One of the finest and funniest of these comedians' collaborations, "The Cook" was long considered one of cinema's lost holy grails until its discovery in 1998 among a cache of undentified nitrate prints at the Norsk Filminstitutt, followed by the discovery of even more footage in 2002 at the Nederlands Filmmuseum! This new edition combines the sources to approximate the original U.S. release of this comic milestone. Also included is "A Reckless Romeo," a legendary lost film also recovered. Arbuckle is at the height of his comedic talents as an adventurous young husband exploring greener pastures, but his attempts at indiscretion at the Palisades Amusement Park are filmed by a newsreel cameraman and shown at the local movie house with both philanderers' nearest and dearest in attendance! Arbuckle's "escape" is one of the most memorable endings of any cinematic comedy.
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A long-lost two-reel comedy starring and directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and costarring Buster Keaton, The Cook (1918) has been reclaimed from nitrate materials found in Norway and Denmark in 1998-99. A few seconds' worth of footage remains lost, but the minor burps in continuity can't dim the two comic geniuses' balletic precision and freewheeling inventiveness. Keaton, new to the flickers, is more devil-may-care than in his own films, but the careening dynamism perfected in two decades of vaudeville knockabout is fully in play. Arbuckle's trademark fat is 95 percent muscle, and his no-sweat juggling rivals W.C. Fields'--though the image viewers will carry to their graves is his kitchen-pan jeu d'esprit as Cleopatra, clutching a link-sausage asp to "her" bosom. All this--plus a ladder-climbing dog named Luke!--makes for a comedic tour de force. Milestone has filled out the package with another Arbuckle rediscovery, A Reckless Romeo (1917), and Harold Lloyd's characteristically zippy Number Please! (1920)--all three shot on glorious amusement-pier locations. --Richard T. Jameson
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Milestone always puts so much love and care into their silent DVDs, and this one is no exception. 'The Cook,' the one missing entry in the Keaton-Arbuckle series, was considered lost for decades, along with the other Arbuckle short presented here, 'A Reckless Romeo.' It's such a miracle they were found and restored; while it's always exciting when a lost silent resurfaces decades later, sometimes it seems that more attention is paid to long-lost features instead of shorts like these. Unfortunately, ... Read More
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I love The Cook for two reasons really, one is of course that it was found after all those lost years to complete the set of Arbuckle/Keaton movies, it would have been so sad to have never found it and always have this one movie that was un-obtainable for all Arbuckle/Keaton fans. The second reason is that Buster dances, and that is worth the price of the DVD alone. The Cook tells the story of a restuarant and the people that work in it, you see them waiting on tables, cooking and basically running a ... Read More
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This collection marks the release of two films long thought lost by film historians: "The Cook" starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and "A Reckless Romeo", thought by some to be another lost Arbuckle/Keaton film, but in fact featuring only Arbuckle. The prints were discovered in 1998 in unmarked canisters in the Norwegian Film Institute. "Reckless" seems to be complete, but "The Cook" is missing footage at the end, which is a little disappointing to the viewer; still, fans of Keaton are ... Read More
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Wish they were still around making more movies! Buy all their dvds and you'll have the best comedies ever made and a lifetime of entertainment you can watch over and over again! Never loses it's freshness!
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So, there's not much more I can say about the restoration of "The Cook", so let me simply speak to the quality of the dvd.
The three films here are well presented. They have been carefully transferred and encoded, so that as much detail as possible comes through.
The Cook is amazing to see. IT's obvious that the materials used were not of high-quality, but the restorers have brought as much quality into the print as possible, and the results are very watchable, certainly more watchable ... Read More
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