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6.8/10   751 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Charles Chaplin (writer)
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Release Date:
15 June 1919 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Charlie Chaplin In His Third Million Dollar Comedy
Plot:
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee... more | add synopsis
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Books: Review: Sunnyside
 (From The AV Club. 6 May 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)

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Somewhat Uneven, But Worth Seeing more (8 total)

Cast

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Charles Chaplin ... Farm handyman
Edna Purviance ... Village Belle
Tom Wilson ... Boss
Tom Terriss ... Young Man from the City
Henry Bergman ... Villager and Edna's Father
Loyal Underwood ... Fat Boy's Father
Tom Wood ... Fat Boy
Helen Kohn ... Nymph
Olive Burton ... Nymph
Willie Mae Carson ... Nymph
Olive Ann Alcorn ... Nymph
J. Parks Jones (as Park Jones)
Granville Redmond
A.D. Blake
N.E. Hendrix (as Shorty Hendricks)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
41 min | 34 min | USA:29 min (TCM print)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) (re-issue) | Silent

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Featured in Chaplin Today: The Kid (2003) (TV) more

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Somewhat Uneven, But Worth Seeing, 13 January 2003
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

It's somewhat uneven, and you'd probably say that it's interesting rather than good, but "Sunnyside" is still worth seeing if you like Charlie Chaplin's short comedies. A couple of the sequences are very enjoyable, but others don't really work that well, and just take up time.

Rather than his usual tramp character, Charlie plays a put-upon farmhand and handyman who has some of the same characteristics, and the story combines some conventional slapstick with some more imaginative sequences. Some of the material is quite good, especially the sequence with Charlie and the horse doctor treating a patient. But not all of it comes off equally well, and it bogs down at times. It's only average among Chaplin's many short comedies, and not quite as good as most of the later ones, but it has enough to be worth seeing.

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