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Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle as neighbors whose wash day becomes a war, then a flirtation, then a war again. Keystone, 1915, directed by Arbuckle. The premise is domestic: two marriages, a fence, laundry that will not stay put. The execution is already the Arbuckle-Normand rhythm: her speed, his mass, the sense that the gag is a conversation. Harry McCoy is the other husband. It is a two-reeler that understands marriage as a sport with no referee.
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Two marriages, a fence, laundry that will not stay put. The Arbuckle rhythm, which is her speed against his weight, with nobody trying to win. Watch them work the clothesline. This is the partnership with no competition in it, which is why it plays warmer than the Chaplin reels.
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