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Reed Heustis (writer)
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2 February 1914 (USA) more
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An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a... more | add synopsis
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Srk’s Double has Trouble
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Chaplin's debut more (14 total)
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(Complete credited cast)| Charles Chaplin | ... | Swindler | |
| Virginia Kirtley | ... | Daughter | |
| Alice Davenport | ... | Mother | |
| Henry Lehrman | ... | Reporter | |
| Minta Durfee | ... | Woman | |
| Chester Conklin | ... | Policeman / Bum |
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A Busted Johnny
Doing His Best
Take My Picture (USA) (alternative title)
Troubles
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15 min
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Chaplin's character is named Edgar English, but most of the characters he played (usually in the persona of the Tramp) would be either nameless, or would informally be given the name Charlie. more
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Featured in Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) more
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It was in this, his first film, that Chaplin was called "a comedian of the first water" by an early, unidentified film critic. Actually, this film was considered bad at the time of its release, but Chaplin stood out in this unimaginative short as a first-class performer. Here, he appears in a silk hat and frock-coat, wearing a monocle. It is interesting to note that while American audiences would interpret this characterization as a traditional stage villain, but in England music-hall this characterization represents a man down-on-his-luck, a sort of forerunner of the Little Tramp (which Chaplin would develop in his following film). The plot, such as it is, involves Chaplin and Lehrman as rival reporters, and when Lehrman gets a photo of a car wreck, Chaplin steals it and tries to sell it to the paper as his own.