In diesem frühen Chaplin-Film spielt er eine ganz andere Figur als den Tramp, für den er später berühmt werden sollte. Er ist ein reicher Gentleman aus der Oberschicht, dessen Romanze in Gefahr gerät, als seine Freundin ihn dabei beobachtet, wie…
Mabel arbeitet als Sekretärin in einer kleinen Firma und ist heimlich mit dem Sohn des Chefs verlobt.
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the…
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he’s literally falling down. He keeps futilely…
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie’s friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.
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