Review of The Garage

This film, titled The Garage, was the last of the shorts starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle with Buster Keaton in support. Actually, at this point Arbuckle and Keaton are more of a comedy team as they both fight and watch each other's back in equal measure. In fact, the best example of the latter is when after Buster's Scottish "kilt" is revealed to have a front only (watch the short if you want to know what I'm talking about), Roscoe goes behind him to keep him away from the cop about to arrest him. I also loved the way both a car and a man were washed and dried on a large spinning floor disc. And how about those contraptions that pull both comics awake when a fire alarm is ringing? It's too bad that a scandal concerning Arbuckle and his death after a brief comeback kept the possibility of his teaming with Keaton again a pipe dream. At least we have their 14 shorts (with a 15th one still lost as of present time) to watch over and over again...