"The Professor" is an American movie from 1919, which means 3 more years and it will have its 100th anniversary. This one only runs for 7 minutes, but I believe this is just one extract and Chaplin intended this as a full feature movie. I may be wrong though. Anyway, it is of course a silent and black-and-white film. Chaplin was around the age of 30 when he made this one, but he looks really old in here, probably intended as he plays a professor and they are usually older. Anyway, his professor is of course not a genius of any kind, but one who travels around with a flea circus and you can already imagine what happens here. Yep, the fleas get away and Charlie is busy all the time getting them back. I have seen some of his works and I would not call myself a big silent film lover or huge Chaplin film, even if there were a handful that I liked. This is not one of them, I found it very underwhelming and never really funny. That's why I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended and I am glad it was that short.
Review of The Professor
