Review by st-shot

Made before Fatty Arbuckles fall and Buster Keaton's rise this Fatty directed short displays a comic self mockery about itself with some blatant cut to the chase moments that both work and bomb. For a comedy it certainly features a lot of gun play and body count that is meant to amuse.

Warring hillbilly moonshiners shoot it out sending one in the drink bringing revenue agent Arbuckle and trusty Sancho Panza, Keaton out to look into matters. The bumbling Arbuckle is captured, abuses the clans daughter and in an ellipses worthy of Bresson, they fall for each other.

Moonshine is a clumsy two reeler with requisite Keaton pratfalls and Arbuckle mugging on a cliff as well as an out of place clown car scene gag with nowhere to go. There's misogyny, ugly stereotyping, mass murder and a little humor but little to nothing to drink to.