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- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyDon BarclayThe girls win a car in a raffle.(actually, all 24 shorts from the list https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026298401/)
Hal Roach Studios, distr. MGM; 6
http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-complete-hal-roach-thelma-todd.html - DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsCharles ChaplinEmma CliftonChester ConklinAn out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar.Not the tramp costume: nice clothes that fit, long mustache. Too few titles, but that might be a restoration problem. Good print. Ok comedy. 13min 6-
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsCharles ChaplinHenry LehrmanGordon GriffithThe Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.Full tramp costume, and movement, but not the persona. Just a camera hog. 7min 6-
- DirectorMabel NormandStarsMabel NormandCharles ChaplinChester ConklinIn a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one, hiding under the bed of an elderly husband. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.Mabel gets herself locked out of her hotel room. Loiterer Tramp and other characters get involved inadvertently (and the suitor intentionally). 12min 6-
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsCharles ChaplinFord SterlingChester ConklinCharlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the dispute, ultimately arresting the rival. An innocent tramp is pushed into the lake.Tramp and 2 others fight over an umbrella. 14min 6-
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbucklePeggy PearceCharlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.Tramp wants to be in movies, but life on the set is too much, especially for an interloper. 12min 6-
- 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.Drunken Charlie (not the Tramp) & bandleader get into fisticuffs over hat check girl. F.Arbuckle is used little. 10min 6-
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbucklePeggy PearceA very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.The Tramp, finally with his bendable cane, is drunk in a bar & swings at everyone. He follows the maid of a pretty lady home, easily walking right in the home unobserved. Lots of people in this house! The maid and a bar attendant are whites in blackface. 13min 6--
- DirectorGeorge NicholsMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinEdgar KennedyMinta DurfeeA silly aristocrat who believes that he has been jilted attempts suicide but he is saved from death and reunited with his fiancée.Charlie (not the Tramp) has a misunderstanding with his betrothed, she breaks it off, he drinks something bad given by his neighbor, thinks he's very ill/dying. Fiancee clears up the misunderstanding, doctors arrive at Charlie's house, lots of people get kicked around. 10min 6--
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinMinta DurfeeEdgar KennedyA brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.Charlie/Tramp-almost causes chaos where he lives with lots of others in a boarding house. 12min 6-
- DirectorMabel NormandMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandHarry McCoyCharlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He next joins some dubious characters in abduction of his rival just before the race for the Vanderbilt Cup. With her boyfriend locked up in a shed, Mabel takes his place. Charlie does what he can to sabotage the race, even causing Mabel's car to overturn.Much longer film, better story. Mabel (Normand) is gf to a race driver. Villain Charlie wants her, and detains him. She drives in the race instead. Villain continues to sabotage, so he must have more reasons. The Villain does not prevail. 23min 6
- DirectorJoseph MaddernCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMinta DurfeeEdgar KennedyCharlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.The Tramp tries to horn in on couples smooching on a park bench, picks the pocket of a pickpocket. meh. 11min 6-
- DirectorMabel NormandStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandDan AlbertCharlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret and must endure the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and pretends to be a fancy ambassador but must contend with the jealousy of her fiancé.Waiter Charlie/Tramp deals with unruly customers in the cabaret, and steals the affections of Mabel in the park when he thwarts a robbery. Things go less well at the party at her mansion, and poorly when she visits the cabaret. Too much violent humor. 23min 6--
- 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.The title describes only a few seconds of the film. Otherwise, the Tramp gets involved with the couple staying in the hotel room across the hall from his. Not much to it. 12min 6--
- DirectorMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainPhyllis AllenA jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.Chaplin in drag, playing a woman. He does a lot more facial expressions than usual. Lots of hitting and kicking, including cops. 6min 6---
- DirectorMack SennettStarsCharles ChaplinMabel NormandMack SennettThree man will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie will play dirty, throwing bricks to his contender, and using a huge hammer to hurt one of them. But a precocious kid will be the fourth suitor in discord.Nothing actually fatal here. But lots of kicking and hitting each other with fists, bricks, and yes, a mallet. The Tramp, Mabel & 2 Macks. 14min 6--
- DirectorMack SennettStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleEdgar KennedyCharles ChaplinTo show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.Charlie (fight referee) is only in about 4min of this, and his pratfalls are far better than the others. Mostly this is F.Arbuckle knocking people over, and falling over himself. 30min 6--
- 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.More hitting, kicking. Fancy Tramp steals hotdogs from vendor Mabel. 13min 6--
- 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.More hitting and kicking. Mabel's married to Fancy Tramp, who's inebriated the whole film. M.Swain (also married) makes passes at her in the park while Tramp is in the bar. He & Tramp fight a bit over her. On her way home, Mabel sees a man-size boxing dummy dressed as masher M.S, has it sent to her home/hotel. She fights with it for a while, but it has a round base, so it fights back. Drunk Tramp comes home and fights with it, thinking it's M.S. Mabel shows Tramp it's really a dummy. 15min 6-
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinFritz SchadeAlice HowellCharlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is sent to the drug store, gets in a fight with a man who (after a brick in the face) becomes another patient, and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife (who is out walking). At one point Charlie pulls a tooth (the wrong one) using enormous pliers.Tramp employed as dentist's clean-up guy. More kicking & hitting, plus teeth pulling. This time, when Tramp hits M.Swain in face with brick, teeth are lost. 13min 6-
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenCharles BennettCharlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes, wrong entries and a fireman's hose. At one point he juggles an athlete's supposed weights. The humor is still rough: he kicks an older assistant in the face and allows him to be run over by a truck.Backstage at low-rent vaudeville, Tramp & old feeble guy employed to do heavy lifting. Lots of hitting & kicking, falling down short flight of stairs. Capped by a fire hose, with water felling people repeatedly. 24min 6-
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinCecile ArnoldJess DandyThe plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his troubles and walks off into the future.Relatively free of violence until the final minute. Chaplin's acting is much more like his future work. This is a drunken Tramp explaining his downfall in a flashback to more prosperous days. 12min 6
- 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.About 1 min of the film has image clear enough to be worth watching, but the action is not. It's more bricks and slaps thrown, with a "romantic" triangle enhanced by 2 cops in the melee. (These are not the typical Keystone Kops, but virile lads who nonetheless act Keystone.) Aren't people tired of the masher in the park plot yet? 7min 5
- 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.2nd time Charlie's in drag, this time really masquerading as a woman to regain entry into the movie studio where he's employed. He was fired for shirking his acting duties. The best part was the very beginning where we see Charlie as the actor arriving for work: nice regular clothes, no mustache. He really was slightly built, and his face looks so young (b. '89) Lots of kicking, hitting, thrown bricks 13min 6-
- 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.Still a bunch of shoving, hitting, kicking, but the masher in the park is now operating on the pier, and was hired as the impromptu caretaker of a man bandaged for gout. 12min 6-