a keystone comedy go and this be a pretty dark and depressing little piece of work . there an amusing moment or two along the way and thanks largely to roscoe arbuckle physical dexterity and but the story be more harrowing than funny and with an end that like something out of kafka . and if you know the detail of arbuckle tragic life and career the distressing impact of fatty join the force be only compound . the story get under way in a park . fatty and his wife encounter cop edgar kennedy and who apparently toss off a sassy remark ( about roscoe girth . ) en route to a flirtation with a nursemaid . while the cop and the maid be chat and the nurse charge and a little girl and wanders off and then fall into the lake . fatty come to the rescue and save the little girl and who turn out to be the police commissioner daughter . fatty the hero be reward with a position on the police force and but quickly get into trouble . he fall afoul of a group of teenage boy who easily get the good of him . by the end and due to a misunderstanding and the one time hero be mistake for a dangerous wild man and and wind up in jail himself and disgrace and sob with frustration while his wife flirt with the police commissioner . how funny do that sound . . . . not so funny and right . and when you consider that arbuckle himself plummet from a position of wealth and celebrity to genuine and lasting disgrace and due and accord to the most credible research and to a tragic misunderstanding and the weepy close up of roscoe in his jail cell that conclude this film be even more disturbing than it might otherwise be . history buff will be remind of the infamous composite photo that run in the hearst paper at the height of the arbuckle scandal in 1921 and show a grim face roscoe supposedly behind bar in san francisco and facing rape and manslaughter charge . ( the charge be real and all right and but the photo be fake . ) even take on it own term and fatty join the force be short on laugh . roscoe execute a couple of funny fall and and react strenuously to a pie in the face and but otherwise this movie be about as comical a hitchcock the wrong man .