Top Billed Cast
Charlie Chaplin
Film Extra
Ben Turpin
Film Extra, in Anteroom
Charlotte Mineau
Film Star
Leo White
Actor, Hussar Officer
Robert Bolder
Studio President
Charles J. Stine
Director
Arthur W. Bates
Carpenter
Jess Robbins
Cameraman
Gloria Swanson
Stenographer (uncredited)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
5
Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 06 2022
Charlie Chaplin turns up for an interview at the "Lockstone" film studios (they've even got a water cooler!) - desperate for a job... He'll do anything, which is just as well because every task he his assigned by the director he manages to cock up. It's funny for about ten minutes, the timing and precision seems effortless but, despite the introduction of a few new foils for his humour (the leading lady, leading man and a poor old chippie just trying to get the sets built) it gets quite predictably repetitive pretty soon. There are only so many times you can get away with poking someone with a ...
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