i be just start to familiarise myself with silent film . this comedy short be on the dvd i purchase and with mickey . i love harold lloyd and buster keaton but i be unfamiliar with comedy from the very early year apart from charlie chaplin and the zany chase from the keystone cop . this be quite amazing and almost a sophisticated comedy from fatty arbuckle . the subtlety of act for this 1916 comedy be and i thought and quite advanced . fatty play a doctor and who along with his cute wife and mabel normand live in a comfortable home . the whole look of the comedy be and i thought and very real ( there be no obvious cheap set the house look real and the road look real nothing look fake . ) thing do not seem to be go too well between them at the start . mabel seem love but giddy and when a childhood friend come for a visit and mabel and he begin to flirt . fatty become quite jealous and tear up a photo that mabel have give jack . they sit down to a lobster dinner and joking that it might give them nightmare . meanwhile two thief plan to rob the doctor house . one and pretend to be lame asks to see the doctor and while the other do the thieving but the doctor soon discover the ruse and send the cripple about his business . one of the thief ring the doctor and get him out of the house on a bogus house call . when fatty be out the robber ( al st. john ) hide under mabel bed . she go to jack for protection and there be an extremely funny sequence involve the robber jumping and running and swinging from the chandelier do anything he can to dodge the bullet from jack badly aim gun . fatty return home to find mabel and jack ( have send the robber flee from the house ) hold hand and he believe that be why he be call from the house . more gun play ensues and the comedy turn quite black a fatty decides the world would be a good place with mabel and jack not in it . i would not spoil the end but the whole comedy ( apart from al st. john wonderful comedic acrobatics ) be one of subtle acting and nuance from arbuckle . it be a wonderful little film and i can recommend it .