Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a girl. He then is invited to a garden party where he gets in trouble with the girl's jealous boyfriend. Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her young co-star.
Cast • Mabel Normand - Mabel • Charles Chaplin - Waiter • Harry McCoy - Lover • Chester Conklin - Waiter • Edgar Kennedy - Cafe proprietor • Minta Durfee - Dancer • Phyllis Allen - Dancer • Josef Swickard - Father • Alice Davenport - Mother • Gordon Griffith - Boy • Alice Howell - Party Guest • Hank Mann - Cabaret Patron • Billy Gilbert (silent film actor) - Cabaret Patron • Wallace MacDonald - Party guest
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away. He abandoned her and a sailor on a mysterious island and has come back after all these years to see if she is still alive and if the nightmares he has will stop. The daughter has been found by five survivors of a Union Army Balloon that crashed near the island. At sea, Professor Aronnax was aboard the ship 'Abraham Lincoln' when Nemo rammed it and threw the Professor, his daughter and two others into the water. Prisoners at first, they are now treated as guests to view the underwater world and to hunt under the waves. Nemo will also tells them about the Nautilus and the revenge that has driven him for all these years.
A ship owner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him Shanghaiing some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Cast
• Charles Chaplin - Tramp
• Edna Purviance - Ship owner's daughter
• Wesley Ruggles - Ship owner
• Bud Jamison - Second mate, The Other Man
• Billy Armstrong (actor) - First Shanghaiing Seaman
• Paddy McGuire - Second shanghaied seaman
• Leo White - Third shanghaied seaman
• John Rand (actor) - Ship's cook
• Fred Goodwins - Cabin boy in coveralls
• Lee Hill (actor) - Sailor in rain hat
The Immigrant (also called Broke) is a silent film 1917 American comedy short film starring the Charlie Chaplin The Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell (actor).
The movie was written and directed by Chaplin.
According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin decided the reason the Tramp was penniless was that he had just arrived on a boat from Europe, and used this notion as the basis for the first half. Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence (in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie) that she became physically ill.
The scene in which Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as evidence of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the United States in 1952. In 1998, The Immigrant was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Cast
Charles Chaplin - Immigrant
Edna Purviance - Immigrant
Eric Campbell (actor) - The head waiter
Albert Austin - A diner
Henry Bergman - The artist
Kitty Bradbury - The Mother
Frank J. Coleman - Ship's Officer / Restaurant Owner
Tom Harrington - Marriage Registrar
James T. Kelly - Shabby Man in Restaurant
John Rand (actor) - Tipsy Diner Who Cannot Pay
Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land (where every man has one thousand wives), he falls in love with the King's favorite wife. When the King falls over a cliff, he is presumed dead and Charlie crowns himself King. The King, however, is not dead and comes back and bashes Charlie over the head with a rock. It turns out it was a dream and a police man bashed Charlie over the head with his club because he was sleeping in the park.
Cast
• Charlie Chaplin as Weak-Chin
• Mack Swain as King Low-Brow
• Fritz Schade as Ku-Ku aka Cleo, Medicine Man
• Cecile Arnold as Cavewoman
• Al St. John as Caveman
• Sydney Chaplin as Policeman
• Gene Marsh as Sum-Babee, Low-Brow's Favorite Water Maiden
After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
Cast:
Charles Chaplin - A Waiter. Posing as Sir Cecil Seltzer
Edna Purviance - The Girl
James T. Kelley - Her Father
Eric Campbell (actor) - Mr. Stout, Edna's Admirer
Henry Bergman - Mrs. Stout and Angry Diner
Lloyd Bacon - Guest
Albert Austin - The Cook and Skater
Frank J. Coleman - Restaurant Manager
John Rand (actor) - Waiter
Charlotte Mineau - Friend of Edna
Leota Bryan - Friend of Edna
Chaplin plays a drunkard who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man suffering from gout, evades him and encounters a beautiful young woman who encourages him to stop drinking. However, when the hotel owner learns his employees are getting drunk off Charlie's liquor, he calls an employee and orders him to have the liquor thrown out the window.
The drunk employee hurls the bottles through the window, straight into the spa's health waters. The well becomes spurious with alcohol, sending the spa's inhabitants into a dancing stupor. Chaplin, encouraged by his new love to get sober, drinks from the spurious spa, gets drunk and offends her. She leaves him in anger and walks away. Charlie walks back to the door unsteadily, when he bumps into the large man, tripping him off his wheel chair and landing him into the alcoholic well.
The next morning there are plenty of hangovers, but Chaplin turns sober, walks out and finds the lady. Realizing what had happened, she forgives him. They walk ahead, just then he accidentally steps into the liquor-laden well.
One introduction which has since been added to the film explains that in 1917 drunkenness was a serious problem in the working class, so to keep it funny Chaplin changed from his "Little Tramp" character to an upper-class fop. Gout was at the time believed to be a disease of the wealthy, which is why Eric Campbell (actor)'s character has it.
Chaplin plays an assistant in a pawnshop run by Bergman. He engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant, deals with eccentric customers, and flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter.
One customer, posing as a jewelry buyer, pulls a gun and tries to rob the place. Chaplin disarms him.
The Lost World is a 1925 silent film fantasy film adventure film and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle). The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a large Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien (an invaluable warmup for his work on the original King Kong (1933 film) directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack). Writer Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film. In 1998, the film was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Charlie is in charge of stage "props" and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room.
Small caricatures on the wall indicate both the stars and the head of what can only be Charlie Chaplin with the word "PROPS" below.
Once the dressing-room issue is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
The order of performance, all of which we see is:
The "Goo-Goo Sisters", billed as comediennes; two young girls dancing
"Garlico" and his Feets of Strength (sic); a strong-man aided by his beautiful assistant who gets knocked out just before she goes on stage, allowing Charlie to step in.
"Sorrow" a drama performed by a man and woman.
During the performances we see the audience reaction throughout, ranging from delight to booing.
Backstage Charlie and an old man fight, often distrupting the on-stage performances. The audience also break into a fight, and a hose brought out behind the scenes ends up squirted over them.
Trivia
The first section contains one of the first continuity errors. Whilst early films often lack any logical progression and could be claimed to be riddled with such, there is a point intended to run smoothly from one room to another where Charlie is burdened with a very heavy chest on his back. We see him lose his hat on one side, and on the other his hat is instantly back on his head.
Cast
• Charles Chaplin - The Property Man
• Phyllis Allen - Lena Fat
• Alice Davenport - Actress
• Charles Bennett (actor) - George Ham, Lena's husband
• Mack Sennett - Man in audience
• Norma Nichols - Vaudeville artist
• Joe Bordeaux - Old actor
• Harry McCoy - Drunk in audience
• Lee Morris - Man in audience