11. Twenty Minutes Of Love (1914)

Keystone 1914

Synopsis

Lovelorn Charlie bothers various couples in the park. When Chester steals a watch from a man sleeping on a bench to impress his girl, Charlie lifts it from him and presents it to the girl himself. When confronted by the irate Chester a chase ensues with Charlie, the girl and a policeman. Charlie, having shaken them off, makes the mistake of trying to sell the original owner his own watch and the chase resumes, with everyone ending up in the lake.

chaplin_credits

Director/Scenario:

Charles Chaplin

Cast:

Charles Chaplin (Pickpocket)

Minta Durfee (Woman)

Edgar Kennedy (Lover)

Gordon Griffith (Boy)

Chester Conklin (Pickpocket)

Josef Swickard (Victim)

Hank Mann (Sleeper)

Shooting days:

March 19 - March 24

Negative sent from LA:

March 28

Received in New York:

April 3

Released:

April 20 1914

Length:

1009ft

Keystone working title:

Passing of Time

Other titles:

The Love Fiend, He Loved Her So, Cops and Watches.

NOTE:

Brent Walker chaplin_credits Joseph Maddern as director, but in his first, self-made filmography this is one of the films which Chaplin specifies as "my own", Maddern is otherwise unrecorded in films, though an actor of this name played with William C.Gillette in Too Much Johnson at the National Theatre, Washington, in April 1898)