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Classic Hollywood

Back Stage

21m

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan Sr.

The stagehands get in on the act during a vaudeville performance gone wrong.

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