Description

Fatty Joins the Force is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. It features the Keystone Kops in a background role.

Fatty is an obese and timid man who rescues a little girl from drowning. The girl turns out to be the daughter of the Police Commissioner. The grateful Commissioner offers Fatty a job in the Police Force. Fatty accepts but soon finds out the job isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.

Cast

• Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle as Fatty
• Dot Farley as Fatty’s wife
• Minta Durfee as Nursemaid
• Edgar Kennedy as Policeman in the park
• George Nichols as Police Commissioner
• William White as Police Captain
• Charles Avery as Desk Sergeant
• Mack Swain as Policeman