For such a short film In
the Park has a surprisingly large cast. Chaplin regulars such as Edna
Purviance, Leo White, Ernest Van Pelt and Bud Jamison all appear along with three or four other
bit players. Considering the film is only fourteen minutes long it feels like a
lot happens and is more reminiscent of Chaplin’s Keystone pictures rather than
say The Champion which was released
just a week earlier than this.
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Friday 1 June 2012
In the Park
Chaplin’s first one reel farce for Essanay is set in a park.
A lady has her handbag stolen by a thief who then attempts to steal Chaplin’s sausages.
Chaplin ends up with the bag and it goes from person to person with each
usually ending up with a brick to the face or foot to the bottom until one man
tries to kill himself and another ends up in Police custody.
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