Special Delivery (1927) DVD-R

Starring Eddie Cantor, Jobyna Ralston, William Powell, Donald Keith, Jack Dougherty
Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Print: black/white
Runtime: 60 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed
comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie
stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He
exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor
was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his
fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in
reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that
destroyed his career.