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Tillie's Punctured Romance

  • 19141914
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
3.5K
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Comedy
A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
3.5K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
72,119
25,648
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    • Directors
      • Mack Sennett
      • Charles Bennett(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hampton Del Ruth(uncredited)
      • Craig Hutchinson(uncredited)
      • Mack Sennett(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Charles Chaplin
      • Marie Dressler
      • Mabel Normand
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Mack Sennett
      • Charles Bennett(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hampton Del Ruth(uncredited)
      • Craig Hutchinson(uncredited)
      • Mack Sennett(uncredited)
    • Stars
      • Charles Chaplin
      • Marie Dressler
      • Mabel Normand
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    • 41User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    Charles Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    Charles Chaplin, Charles Bennett, Marie Dressler, and Mabel Normand in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, and Mabel Normand in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, and Mabel Normand in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    Charles Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)

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    Charles Chaplin
    Charles Chaplin
    • The City Slicker
    Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler
    • Tillie
    Mabel Normand
    Mabel Normand
    • Mabel
    Mack Swain
    Mack Swain
    • Tillie's Father
    Charles Bennett
    Charles Bennett
    • Douglas Banks - Tillie's Millionaire Uncle…
    Chester Conklin
    Chester Conklin
    • Mr. Whoozis…
    Dan Albert
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Phyllis Allen
    • Prison Matron
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Billie Bennett
    • Maid
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Joe Bordeaux
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Tom Byrne
    • Paperboy
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Carruthers
    • Maid and Waitress
    • (uncredited)
    Glen Cavender
    Glen Cavender
    • First Pianist in Restaurant
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Charley Chase
    Charley Chase
    • Detective in Movie Theatre
    • (uncredited)
    Dixie Chene
    Dixie Chene
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Nick Cogley
    Nick Cogley
    • Police Chief
    • (uncredited)
    Alice Davenport
    Alice Davenport
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Hampton Del Ruth
    • Tall Banks Secretary Searching for Tillie
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Mack Sennett
      • Charles Bennett(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hampton Del Ruth(uncredited)
      • Craig Hutchinson(uncredited)
      • Mack Sennett(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The first feature-length comedy ever made.
    • Goofs
      When they are pulling Tillie out of the water with the rope, the rope in the close-ups is dragging directly over the edge of the wharf, but in the medium shots from another viewpoint, the rope is clearly being run through a block pulley system on a spar suspended over the water.
    • Quotes

      Police Chief: Have you a niece built like a battleship who calls herself Tillie?

    • Alternate versions
      Re-released in the 1950s with a organ score and narration. The narration, though, was being read while the title cards were seen.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Movies March On (1939)
    • Soundtracks
      New Orleans Bump
      (used as a music insert in later public domain sound copies)

      Written and performed by Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

    User reviews41

    Review
    Top review
    Chaplin and Normand at the movies
    Forget the Marie Dressler main plot, elephantine and lumbering as the star (on this occasion: she was great when movies finally allowed her to talk and properly preserve her theatrical identity). Throw out almost everything else, especially the usual Mack Sennett hash joint/beanery-with-continental-pretensions which holds the action and us captive for roughly half the running time, tricking the film out to feature length.

    The claustrophobia and boredom these stage-bound scenes induce have the positive effect of making us fully appreciate everything that happens outdoors in lovely underdeveloped 1914 Southern California. The scenes with rascal Chaplin and his lovely accomplice Normand (a beautiful team) hiding out together from the rest of the movie in real locations provide delicious escape and a very different, carefree, style of acting and film-making, which can be reduced to the one wonderful scene (throw the rest away if only five minutes can be preserved) where Charlie and Mabel go to the movies only to find an on screen version of the very scam they've haplessly set into motion and have ducked into the dark to escape. It's valuable documentation of what movie-going looked like in 1914, fascinating in itself, but the comedy raises it higher. Mabel is the kind of audience member who emotes and comments as she watches. The fellow sitting next to her is the stern sort who gets annoyed and says "Shush!" As Chaplin and girlfriend watch further they realize they're seeing themselves, and Mabel can't help but notice and say it out loud (yet silently). As she does so, she and Chaplin, increasingly self-conscious about talking in the theater, notice that the shush-er beside them reveals a sheriff's star as he adjusts his waistcoat. Paranoia sets in and from this moment on klassic Keystone Kops seem to be lurking in the edges of everywhere they dream of transgressing. A lovely vignette and accompanying good bits and pieces.
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    • tenco
    • Nov 1, 2009

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    • Release date
      • December 21, 1914 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Marie's Millions
    • Filming locations
      • Sans Souci Castle, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Keystone Film Company
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    • Budget
      • $50,000 (estimated)
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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