- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- This is a parody of two "Carmen"s, Bizet's opera and a movie (1915) starring Geraldine Farrar. Smugglers come ashore. Their leader sends the gypsy Carmen to lure Don Jose (called Darn Hosiery) away so they can get the contraband to town. There are grand swordfights, deaths, returns to life.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- Lieutenant Darn Hosiery, Don Jose in the opera, is sent to a province in Spain to stop smuggling. The smugglers try to bribe him, but he steals their money so that they have nothing to bribe him with. Carmen tempts him. He falls prey to her blandishments. A fellow officer also loves Carmen and he and Don Jose fight a duel in which the latter is victor. The other officer is killed, but shortly afterward decides to come back to life. Don Jose flees, and inasmuch as he is no more in authority. Carmen runs away with a popular toreador. Don Jose follows her, stabs her, and then himself with a stage knife. While they are lying on the ground dead, the toreador makes Don Jose feel the toe of his boot, which quickly brings him to life, and the play ends with a laugh instead of the wonted tears.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Competing simultaneously with Cecil B. DeMille's Carmen (1915), starring the American soprano opera singer, Geraldine Farrar, and Raoul Walsh's identically titled, Carmen (1915), with the silent era vamp, Theda Bara, Charlie Chaplin's "Burlesque on Carmen" was originally intended as a two-reel comedy. Based on Prosper Mérimée's novella, Chaplin's version--which is accompanied by Georges Bizet's score--portrays the zany officer Darn Hosiery's best efforts to guard the city walls of Seville from Remendado's smugglers. As the contrabandist fails to bring in the goods, he enlists the aid of the alluring Gitano girl, Carmen, to seduce him--and before long--intrigue, jealousy, and death stain Hosiery's ill-fated romance. However, is the good officer capable of murder?—Nick Riganas
- This is the original two-reel parody of Bizet's Carmen by Chaplin. Darn Hosiery, a Spanish officer, is seduced by the gypsy girl Carmen, leading to disgrace and downfall.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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By what name was A Burlesque on Carmen (1915) officially released in Canada in English?
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