28. Those Love Pangs (1914)

Keystone 1914

Synopsis

Chester and Charlie compete for the affections of their landlady and several girls in the park. Chester seems to have all the luck, with Charlie looking on. He decides to end it all but is prevented from jumping in the lake by a policeman. Charlie has a fight with another punter before seeing one of the girls giving money to Chester from her shoe. Charlie knocks Chester out and steals the money. He uses it to get into the cinema where two of the girls have gone. He sits between them, but waking from a doze, finds Chester and the other punter instead. They throw him through the cinema screen.

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Director/Scenario:

Charles Chaplin

Cast:

Charles Chaplin (Masher)

Chester Conklin (Rival)

Cecile Arnold (Girl)

Vivian Edwards (Girl)

Norma Nichols (Landlady)

Grover Ligon (or Liggon) (Movie Patron)

Marlon Faygen (Spectator)

Billy Gilbert (Cinema patron)

Fred Hibbard (Boyfriend)

Harry McCoy (Policeman)

Fritz Schade (Cinema Patron)

George 'Slim' Summerville (Cinema Patron)

Shooting days:

September14 - September 17

Negative sent from LA:

September 19

Received in New York:

September 25

Released:

October 10 1914

Length:

1010ft

Keystone working title:

In Wrong

Other titles:

The Rival Mashers. Busted Hearts, Oh You Girls