Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000213
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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two minor comedies 161 to the front entrance, and out, by the crowd swarming in after him. The last car is packed and Charlie tries to get transportation via another passenger's suspenders. These give way and down goes Charlie and part of the man's pants with him. Then, in a state of confusion, he climbs into a hot-dog wagon and starts strap-hanging from a large sausage suspended from the ceiling. He opens his newspaper in the belief that he is properly embarked for home when the proprietor forcibly disillusions him and sends him home, afoot. Back home he oils his shoes in the hope of getting to bed unnoticed by his wife who lies with a rolling pin cuddled to her breast. As he starts to undress the alarm clock goes off. Charlie rises to the occasion and promptly dons his coat again — but doesn't fool his hard-hearted wife. Rolling pin in hand she drives him off to work again. The henpecked husband flees to the bathroom, lies down in the seemingly empty tub — to pop up dripping. A close-up of the scolding wife irises out and the camera irises in on a close-up of Charlie's bare shivering feet, with his clothes drying on a radiator in the background. Considered rather slight fare in 1921 and 1922 "The Idle Class" and "Pay Day" would be welcomed as extremely pleasant entertainment today when comedy of this genre is so rare.