Charlie Chaplin Short Films
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- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceOlive Ann AlcornCharlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous--either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinChester ConklinFritz SchadeCharlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandMack SwainCharlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and each takes the other's coat by mistake. Charlie's wife thinks he has a lover; Ambrose's believes he has an illegitimate child.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceCharles AberA tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceC. AllenA father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainMay WallaceCharlie dreams he is in the Stone Age, where King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king's favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting trip the king is pushed over a cliff. Charlie proclaims himself king, but Ku-Ku discovers the real king alive. They return to find Charlie and Sum-Babee together.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenMack SwainAfter a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandMack SwainAccosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainAlice DavenportWhen a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his room so that when her husband returns from his walk he must go out again to look for her. Charlie returns the lady to her room but must climb out onto the window ledge in a downpour.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinCharley ChasePeggy PageA nephew takes his wheelchair-bound uncle and sweetheart to the park, where he meets the Little Tramp. The Tramp knows a money-making opportunity when he sees one.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainMabel NormandMabel 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. Charlie sprays the policeman with soda until he friends makes it through the hole. In the grandstand, Mabel abandons her beau for Charlie. Both Charlie's friend and Mabel's are arrested and hauled away.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinJohn T. DillonAl St. JohnCharlie is janitor for a firm the manager of which receives a threatening note about his gambling debts. He throws a bucket of water out the window which lands on his boss and costs him his job. The boss, attempting to steal the money heeds from the office safe, is caught by his secretary and Charlie comes to save her and the money. He is briefly accused of being the thief but ultimately triumphs.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainFritz SchadeCharlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart, and most of the specific gags, appeared later in Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box".
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenMack SwainA continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found.
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbucklePeggy PearceCharlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandDan AlbertA hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie.
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsCharles ChaplinHenry LehrmanGordon GriffithThe Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinAlbert AustinHenry BergmanProfessor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceAlbert AustinCharlie and friends illustrate various bonds in life and the most important, Liberty Bonds for the war...
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbucklePhyllis AllenTwo drunks live in the same hotel. One beats his wife, the other is beaten by his. They go off and get drunk together. They try to sleep in a restaurant using tables as beds and are thrown out. They lie down in a rowboat which fills with water, drowning them--a fate apparently better than going home to their wives.
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinMinta DurfeeEdgar KennedyA brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleChester ConklinCharlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinFord SterlingRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleOut of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
- DirectorFord SterlingStarsFord SterlingKeystone KopsPhyllis AllenThe Keystone Cops pursue a thief.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinCharles BennettHelen CarruthersCharlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water.