Triple Trouble (1918)
Country: US
Technical: bw 23m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong
Synopsis:
Charlie works as janitor for an inventor of a wireless explosive, and a bunch of German diplomats want to get their hands on it. However, a crook and former stamping partner of the tramp's also has designs on the house.
Review:
Edna plays a kitchen skivvy in the first part of this two-reeler, which then peters out and moves to a dosshouse, with a singing James T. Kelley and a thief who tries to steal from everyone there. We then return to the initial story for an explosive finale. It doesn't really hang together, which is hardly surprising as it seems to have been assembled from Essanay outtakes, particulary Police, and then put out long after the star's departure, like a latterday Pink Panther picture. There is plenty of Keystone Cops-style business, with a quintet of incompetents attempting to foil the robbery, and some brilliantly directed ensemble action scenes, notably at the dosshouse, which yields such a superb brawl, one wonders it was never used.
Country: US
Technical: bw 23m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong
Synopsis:
Charlie works as janitor for an inventor of a wireless explosive, and a bunch of German diplomats want to get their hands on it. However, a crook and former stamping partner of the tramp's also has designs on the house.
Review:
Edna plays a kitchen skivvy in the first part of this two-reeler, which then peters out and moves to a dosshouse, with a singing James T. Kelley and a thief who tries to steal from everyone there. We then return to the initial story for an explosive finale. It doesn't really hang together, which is hardly surprising as it seems to have been assembled from Essanay outtakes, particulary Police, and then put out long after the star's departure, like a latterday Pink Panther picture. There is plenty of Keystone Cops-style business, with a quintet of incompetents attempting to foil the robbery, and some brilliantly directed ensemble action scenes, notably at the dosshouse, which yields such a superb brawl, one wonders it was never used.
Country: US
Technical: bw 23m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong
Synopsis:
Charlie works as janitor for an inventor of a wireless explosive, and a bunch of German diplomats want to get their hands on it. However, a crook and former stamping partner of the tramp's also has designs on the house.
Review:
Edna plays a kitchen skivvy in the first part of this two-reeler, which then peters out and moves to a dosshouse, with a singing James T. Kelley and a thief who tries to steal from everyone there. We then return to the initial story for an explosive finale. It doesn't really hang together, which is hardly surprising as it seems to have been assembled from Essanay outtakes, particulary Police, and then put out long after the star's departure, like a latterday Pink Panther picture. There is plenty of Keystone Cops-style business, with a quintet of incompetents attempting to foil the robbery, and some brilliantly directed ensemble action scenes, notably at the dosshouse, which yields such a superb brawl, one wonders it was never used.