Your friend the bandit

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Movie
German title Your friend the bandit
Original title Her Friend the Bandit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1914
length 16 minutes
Rod
Director Charlie Chaplin
script Charlie Chaplin
production Mack Sennett
for Keystone Studios
camera Frank D. Williams
occupation

Your friend, the Bandit is a 1914 American silent film comedy directed by Charlie Chaplin . It is the only Chaplin film that is considered lost .

action

In this farce , Charlie Chaplin plays a bandit who overpowers Count De Beans on the way to a party at the Miss Mabel De Rocks estate. He puts on his clothes, accepts the invitation and is admitted to Mabel's house. Various mishaps occur there and he causes chaos among the lordly present. Eventually the Keystone Cops appear and arrest the bandit.

production

Filming for your friend the bandit began on May 11, 1914 under the working title The Italian and ended on May 18, 1914. On June 4, 1914, the film was released in theaters.

It was later published under the title Mabel's Flirtation .

criticism

Moving Picture World called the 1914 film a farce that was a little thin, but contained all the chaos that makes a farce. "It will amuse and laugh, and can be considered solid, if not remarkable, entertainment."

For Bioscope , the film was a "lively farce."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It will amuse and make laughter and can be considered a safe, rather than noteworthy offering. In: The Moving Picture World 1914 , p. 65 ?. Quoted from Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp . iUniverse, 2005, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Ted Okuda, David Maska (ed.): An arousing farce . Quoted from Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp . iUniverse, 2005, p. 43.