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THE CHAMPION
U.S.A., 1915 2 reels
production company: Essanay script and direction : Charles Chaplin photography : Rollie Totheroh
CAST
Charles Chaplin, Bud Jamison, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Ben Turpin, Lloyd Bacon and Broncho (G.M.) Anderson
This film, among the best of Chaplin's early work, was one of the first he made for the Essanay Company after leaving Keystone. It shows how Charlie takes a job as sparring partner and is so successful (with the aid of an iron horseshoe in his glove) that he is matched in a championship fight, where he manages to hold his own until his bulldog intervenes to help him to victory.
* Outstanding scenes: The dog refusing to eat the frankfurter until Charlie has put salt on it; Charlie showing off to Edna while training; imitating the villainous Leo's pose, Charlie scratches the wrong head; the mock farewell to his dog before the championship bout ; the general sense of timing in the boxing match.
ANIGHT IN THE SHOW
U.S.A., 1915 2 reels
production company : Essanay script and direction : Charles Chaplin
CAST
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dee Lampton, Leo White, May White, Bud Jamison, James T. Kelly, John Rand and Paddy McGuire
This film is based on the Fred Karno skit "A Night in an English Music Hall" in which Chaplin had appeared many times on the stage. The film was released by Essanay on the 20th November, 1915. While not subtle, A Night in the Show is a laugh-provoking comedy — about the funniest of the Essanays. Chaplin plays a double role — an inebriated gentleman in the orchestra and a bum in the balcony (in a sort of cockney make-up). Mr. Pest causes as much disturbance in the orchestra as Mr. Rowdy in the balcony. The former changes his seat several times and annoys the musicians. Then he proceeds to interfere with the performers on the stage. Rowdy throws ice cream cones from the balcony and Mr. Pest, borrowing a fat boy's pie, squelches some sour singers. Alarmed at the Fire Eater, Rowdy turns the fire hose on the stage, also drenching those in the audience.
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