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280:" heads to a resort for warm weather and golf. At the golf course, the Tramp's theft of balls in play causes one golfer to mistakenly attack another. Meanwhile, a neglected wife leaves her wealthy husband until he gives up drinking. When the Tramp is later mistaken for a pickpocket, he crashes a masquerade ball to escape from a policeman. There, he is mistaken for the woman's husband. Eventually, it is all straightened out, and the Tramp is once more on his way. 31: 1454: 232: 383:
centers on an unhappy marriage between an absent-minded husband and a lonely wife. This state of affairs could easily describe the principal characters of the tragi-comedy that was Chaplin’s own marriage. In the film Chaplin manages to dramatize the two sides of his own personality: Charlie the Tramp
237: 236: 234: 238: 379:—for it is purposely not clear in the film which is the idle class: the idle rich or the idle poor. Chaplin plays both. The film took five months to complete, an amazingly long time for a two-reel comedy.” Vance speculates, “It is perhaps ironic that the story of 235: 233: 166: 1491: 136: 1535: 156: 708: 384:
and the Absent-minded husband, rich and neglectful, absorbed to his own interests and indifferent to others. The latter was certainly how
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as “one of Chaplin’s funniest short comedies.” He notes that Chaplin began production on the film in January 1921 with the working title
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is so good and so funny that one realizes how much better is it to be entertained by two reels than bored in five."
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Vance, Jeffrey (2003) Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema New York: Harry N. Abrams, pg. 117 and 121. ISBN 0-8109-4532-0
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Charlie Chaplin
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Henry Bergman
Mack Swain
Roland Totheroh
Charles Chaplin Productions
First National
Playhouse Home Video
Key Video
Image Entertainment
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MK2 Diffusion
Warner Home Video
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Silent
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silent
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Charlie Chaplin
First National Pictures
Little Tramp
Charlie Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Mack Swain
Henry Bergman
Al Ernest Garcia
John Rand
Rex Storey
Lita Grey

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