Title: Silent shorts: 2 excellent and 1 good.
Product review: `The Cook' (1918) Is one of the best Fatty Arbuckle/Buster Keaton collaborations, withsome very funny juggling and dancing routines as they work together in a café.`Reckless Romeo' (1917) Is Arbuckle without Keaton. Not as strong as the othertwo films. The majority of it is Fatty hitting on various girls in the park, but thereis a cool, surreal, self reflective moment at the end, when Fatty sees newsreelfootage of his amorous attempts projected at the local movie house, as hiswife sits next to him.`Number, Please?' (1920) is Harold Lloyd directed by Fred Newmeyer and Hal Roach.It has a number of very funny and inventive set pieces as Lloyd attempts to win backhis girl. This film feels more sophisticated and less dated than the Arbuckle films.
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