All Wet
A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent. “The film starts out as a remake of 1916’s FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT, while the second reel turns into “Al St John meets George Méliès,” as it depicts Al’s adventures under the sea with giant fish, a squid, a few mermaids, and other sea creatures.” (Steve Massa, 2010)
Al St. John
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Al St. John
This is an unusual farce comedy combining all the fast action, speed and thrills of the slapstick with the surprises of the farce. Main actor and director Al St. John was the nephew of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and considered as a wonderful pantomimist and an acrobat. The film was actually directed anonymously by his uncle. Being part of a series called "Tuxedo Comedies", Lovemania was set up by producers like Jack White and Joseph Schenck so that Arbuckle could work behind the scenes, since he couldn't appear on screen due to his 1921 scandal.
Al St. John buys a touring car and takes his extended family on a disastrous trip.
Al St. John tries to kill himself, but ends up trying to save a poor girl from a nasty crook.
Directed by and stars Al St. John and the first half is a little below average. It's a variation on the sort of rustic comedies his uncle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, used to star in with Mabel Normand almost a decade earlier. The gags, while reasonable and appropriate, are, like the cows, milked too much. The pretty girl is swinging on a swing, reading a newspaper and knocks four of her suitors and her father into the water, with a long, slow-motion shot of them plunging into the depths.
