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gown" and Charlie in full dress make a grand entrance. Tillie, leading her small partner by the neck, goes into a frenzied tango, varied by kicks, trips, splits, whirls, and falls. In a side room Charlie is confronted by Mabel. They go through a sequence of quarreling and making up.
Tillie, discovering them embracing in an alcove, goes berserk, firing pastry at them, most of the shots finding targets on other guests. She reaches a climax when she finds a pistol. Charlie takes refuge in a big vase. Mabel under a rug. Tillie, swinging a cane, breaks the vase, and is choking Charlie just as the uncle, who had been rescued and revived, returns home. The "apparition" terrifies Tillie. He orders them all out of the house.
"Tillie rich and Tillie poor are two different things." Charlie now turns to Mabel — with Tillie at their heels. The uncle has called the police who come skidding into the station, knocking each other into a heap, then skidding out.
The wild chase culminates on a pier off which a police car, congested with cops, knocks Tillie, itself, and its contents into the ocean. Another kind of cops, water police, dash to the scene with collisions and capsizing lifeboats. Tillie is fished out and deposited on the pier where, as Mabel also spurns him, she expresses final disillusionment with Charlie, hands him back his ring, and declares "He ain't no good to neither of us." While the two women console each other, Charlie meets this turn of events with a philosophical shrug before the cops drag him off.
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" is still running today in various cut-up, sixteen-millimeter versions. An abridged, thirty-five-millimeter has dubbed-in music and sound effects. Since it reached the screen a little ahead of "The Birth of a Nation," which also receives occasional commercial revivals, "Tillie" may be said to be the oldest "living" feature picture.