Leap Year is an American silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe Arbuckle. Though produced in 1921, the film was not released in the United States due to Arbuckle's involvement in the Virginia Rappe death scandal; it received its first release in Finland in 1924. The film finally saw an American release of sorts in 1981. Prints held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Library of Congress.
Leap Year | |
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Directed by | Roscoe Arbuckle James Cruze |
Written by | Sarah Y. Mason Walter Woods |
Starring | Fatty Arbuckle |
Cinematography | Karl Brown |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Screenplay
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Stanley Piper
- Mary Thurman as Nurse Phyllis Brown
- Lucien Littlefield as Jeremiah Piper
- Clarence Geldart as Scott Travis
- Harriet Hammond as Loris Keene
- Allen Durnell as Tommy Blaine
- Gertrude Short as Molly Morris
- John McKinnon as Mumford, the valet
- Maude Wayne as Irene Rutherford
- Winifred Greenwood as Mrs. Travis
Leap Year was released on DVD by Laughsmith Entertainment/Mackinac Media on May 24, 2005 as part of the collection titled The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. It was later released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on September 1, 2015.
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography