Laughing Gas (1914)

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Movie
Original title Laughing gas
Laughing Gas (poster) .jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1914
length 16 minutes
Rod
Director Charles Chaplin
production Mack Sennett
camera Frank D. Williams
occupation

Laughing gas is a slapstick - silent film of Charles Chaplin in the year 1914 . The film was produced by the Keystone Film Company under the direction of Mack Sennett . On July 9, 1914, the film celebrated its cinema premiere in the distribution of Mutual Film .

action

Charlie works as an assistant for the dentist Dr. Pain, when he hits a patient on the swollen cheek while working, one problem after another begins for him. First of all, Dr. Pain too much nitrous oxide , for this reason his assistant should watch the patient while the doctor looks for a remedy for the gas. When the patient comes to laughing again, Charlie sends him to the land of dreams with a wooden hammer anesthetic. When the doctor comes back, he is supposed to prepare an amalgam filling and is kicked into the waiting room. There Charlie hits every patient on the cheek and flirts with a patient.

In the pharmacy Sunset Pharmacy he upset the pharmacist and the wife of his boss. This is exposed by him in public. To defend himself, Charlie throws bricks at his opponent and hits his teeth and those of another passerby. In the meantime, Charlie's boss is informed of his wife's accident and races to her as fast as he can.

Charlie takes over the post of his boss as long as he dedicates himself to the pretty patient, trying to get closer to her. Meanwhile, the victims of his brick-throwing trickle in. When Charlie fetches the next patient, he pulls the wrong tooth without anesthesia. While he is doing this, the pharmacist comes to him in the treatment room and is involved in an intense fight that the dentist and his wife cannot avoid.

Background information

The film was released in America under at least three other titles including Laffing Gas , The Dentist and Tuning His Ivories . The original title for the film is Laughing Gas and therefore the most common title variant.

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