Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for March 02, 2011

Of course Arbuckle was working as a director under an alias during the 20’s. I have often wondered if there were ever plans for a GA silent movie or animated cartoon. They were alreday doing toy and game tie-ins about the strip, so we know the strip was pretty hot property. There were two GA films done in the early fifties, and you can find them on Nedtflix,but as far as I can tell no one made a silent GA. I could picture Wallace Beery or Oliver Hardy (sans toothbrush moustache) as Uncle Walt and Jackie Coogan as Skeezix.