Leap Year (DVD)

Produced in 1921 but not screened in America until 87 years later due to its star’s career-derailing rape trial, this feature-length “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy finds the rotund funnyman playing ne’er-do-well playboy Stanley Piper, whose wealthy uncle sends him to a “female-free” island resort to straighten himself out. The trip is anything but a cure, as Stanley returns home engaged to three different women! Mary Thurman, Lucien Littlefield also star. 56 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score; bonus short “Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition” (1915). Silent with music score.

Leap Year (DVD)