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A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Charles Chaplin
- Father
- (as Charlie Chaplin)
C. Allen
- Jazz Musician
- (uncredited)
Naomi Bailey
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Sallie Barr
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
- Captain
- (uncredited)
- …
True Boardman
- Man on Boat
- (uncredited)
James Bryson
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Jackie Coogan
- Smallest Boy
- (uncredited)
Dixie Doll
- Girl on Boat
- (uncredited)
Charles S. Drew
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Elmer Ellsworth
- Man in Street Scene
- (uncredited)
Marion Feducha
- Small Boy
- (uncredited)
Leroy Finnegan
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Mrs. Fowler
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
Warren Gilbert
- Boat Passenger
- (uncredited)
J.A. Irvin
- Jazz Musician
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe house the family appears from is in reality Charles Chaplin's office.
- Goofs(at around 2 mins) As Father (Charles Chaplin) struggles with the cantankerous car, a pedestrian comes into view on the far sidewalk in the background. Either realizing a film is being shot or waved off by the crew, he turns around and walks away, but he pauses to look back over his shoulder just before he walks out of sight.
- Quotes
Title Card: Everybody's doing it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
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not particularly interesting but not bad
This movie reminds me of the later Laurel and Hardy film A PERFECT DAY, though the Stan and Ollie film was an awful lot funnier. Part of this is that Chaplin's character is not exactly the "nice guy" he played in later movies and part of it was the choppiness of the film. It was a lot of little vignettes pieced together during a days' outing with the wife and kids. The delicate and artistic touch of his longer and later films just isn't there and, while okay, it's difficult to score this movie as anything other than average. In particular, the very poorly done sequence of the rocking boat was way overdone and and poorly assembled as well. The boat is simply rocking too wildly--most ship-wrecks rock much less. And, at the same time, the water in the background is way too calm. It just looked sloppy.
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- planktonrules
- Apr 13, 2006
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- A Ford Story
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- Runtime20 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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