Short / Comedy
USA,
1914, 15 min
Directed by:
Henry LehrmanCinematography:
Enrique Juan VallejoCast:
Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Gilbert, Henry Lehrman, Tammany YoungPlots(1)
Chaplin's Keystone debut sees him as an impoverished and inebriate gentleman who begs the better-heeled Lehrman for a loan. The refusal offends, and as they compete for a job as a newspaper reporter they become rivals. Charlie and Lehrman battle it out to be first to the editor with a scoop, and they are still battling it out at the end when they are carried off on the front of a streetcar. (official distributor synopsis)
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