{{short description|1922 American comedy film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = The Fast Freight | image = | caption = | director = James Cruze | producer = Adolph Zukor<br>Jesse L. Lasky | writer = Curtis Benton | starring = Fatty Arbuckle | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{film date|1922|6|18}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent<br>English intertitles | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Fast Freight''''' is a 1922 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film was not released in the US, due to Arbuckle's involvement in the Virginia Rappe scandal.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FreightPrepaid1922.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Fast Freight |accessdate=July 15, 2010|work=Silent Era}}</ref> The film is also known as ''Via Fast Freight'', ''Handle with Care'' and ''Freight Prepaid''.<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/8957-THE-FAST-FREIGHT |title=''The Fast Freight'' |work=afi.com |access-date=March 3, 2026}}</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=March 2024}}
==Cast== * Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as Ras Berry * Lila Lee as Elsie * Nigel Barrie as John Hammond * Herbert Standing as Peter Hammond * Raymond Hatton
==Preservation== In February of 2021, ''The Fast Freight'' was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list and is therefore presumed lost.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |access-date=March 3, 2026}}</ref><ref name="American Silent Feature Film Database">{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5149/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012602/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5149/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: ''The Fast Freight'' |access-date=2026-03-03 |publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>
==See also== * List of American films of 1922 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0012157}}
{{James Cruze}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fast Freight, The}} Category:1922 films Category:1922 comedy films Category:1922 lost films Category:1922 American films Category:1922 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language comedy films Category:Films directed by James Cruze Category:Lost American silent comedy films Category:Paramount Pictures films
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