A Noise from the Deep still exists and was screened four times in 2006 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of a 56-film retrospective of all known surviving Arbuckle movies.

[2][3] A pretty girl (Normand), is eloping with a young man for romantic excitement, as much as anything, is accidentally thrown into a pond, and her swain, her father's choice for a son-in-law, unable to swim, is compelled to run for help.

To make time for the ceremony, a hose is run into the pool, one end being taken behind some bushes on the bank, and a young rustic, in consideration of a quarter, takes his place to blow through it.

[5] American film historian Jeanine Basinger opined that "there is something deeply poetic about the fact that the first movie pie was thrown by a woman into the face of a surprised male actor.

[6] Author David Yallop wrote that while many pies have been thrown since, according to Gene Fowler, "all of these pie-tossers were mere petits-fours twiddlers" when compared to Arbuckle, who he said was the "greatest pie-slinger of all time", and the "Hercules of the winged dessert".

[15] The Crescent Theater in Austin, Texas proclaimed: we can say without fear of contradiction that the comedy we will show on Monday entitled A Noise From the Deep has never been equaled in a laugh producing film in this city.