The Cook

1918

Action / Comedy

30
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2134 2.1K

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Plot summary

In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.

Top cast

Buster Keaton as Assistant Chef
Alice Lake as Waitress / Cashier
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147.82 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
20 fps
12 hr 22 min
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311.06 MB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
20 fps
12 hr 22 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Arbuckle is the cook, Keaton is the waiter

Arbuckle is the cook, Keaton is the waiter. The restaurant? Well that's a glorified café with a limited menu but some customers who clearly think they're in the Waldorf. That's not an accusation that could be levelled against the two staff members who spend much of their time mucking about causing quite a bit of wreckage and mayhem as they go. With the floor now bestrewn with crockery, an hoodlum arrives with designs on the gal and so the two men must team up with the maître-d' and their dog "Luke" and chase him away! There's a great deal of energy in this charming short feature from a very natural looking Arbuckle. He has an agility and nimbleness as he dances around the kitchen, cracking eggs whilst indulging in some knife throwing. Keaton, too, is clearly having some fun as they invent the world's first spaghetti laundry but I suppose it has to be the ladder-climbing dog that steals the story! "A restful afternoon"? Well maybe not for the carriage-pulling goats - and, of course, there just had to be a roller-coaster and a damsel in distress to rescue too!
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Reviewed by Anonymous_Maxine 8 / 10

Keaton steals the show.

I may be biased toward Buster Keaton since I have seen so many more of his films than of Fatty Arbuckle's, but I think that he was a far better physical comedian than Fatty was. Arbuckle performs some astonishing tricks as the cook, flipping pancakes behind his back and tossing utensils and such, and he should be recognized for this as well as his tremendous contributions to silent comedies. Both actors have much stronger works, but this is a clean short comedy, surprisingly well restored for having been sitting lost in some attic for more than 70 years. It makes me wish I was around back then, when the magic in Hollywood was still alive.

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