A Dog's Life
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A Dog's Life was Charlie Chaplin's initial release for First National Studios, and also his first three-reeler. Chaplin plays a tramp (duh!), who shambles around the cold, cruel world with his dog Scraps. Unable to land a job, Charlie and Scraps cadge a meal from lunchwagon proprietor Syd Chaplin (Charlie's brother). Things take a turn for the better when Charlie befriends down-and-out singer Edna Purviance. After routing a gang of crooks, Charlie and Edna head down the road "Where Dreams Come True" for a deliberately improbable happy ending. Together with Shoulder Arms and The Idle Class, A Dog's Life is one of the best examples of Chaplin's wildly uneven First National output. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviCast
Henry Bergman - Employment Agency Man; Charles Chaplin - Tramp; Ted Edwards - Unemployed Man; Louis Fitzroy - Unemployed Man; Edna Purviance - Bar Singer; Sidney Chaplin - Lunch Wagon Owner; Tom Wilson - Policeman; Albert Austin - Crook; Charles "Chuck" Riesner; Rob Wagner - Dance Hall Man; Dave Anderson - Unemployed ManCredit
Charles Chaplin - Director, Charles Chaplin - Composer (Music Score), Charles Hall - Production Designer, Roland H. "Rollie" Totheroh - Cinematographer, Jack Wilson - Cinematographer, Charles Chaplin - Producer, Charles Chaplin - Screenwriter, Eric James - Additional Music| A Dog's Dream (2008 Film), A Dog's Breakfast (2007 Film) | |
| A Dog's Life: A Dogamentary (2004 Film), A Dog's Life: The Oscar Lose Story (2009 Film) |
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For other uses, see Dog's Life (disambiguation).
| A Dog's Life | |
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 Theatrical poster to A Dog's Life |
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| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Produced by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Written by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Starring | Charlie Chaplin Edna Purviance Syd Chaplin Henry Bergman Charles Reisner Albert Austin Tom Wilson |
| Music by | Charlie Chaplin (in 1957 released as part of The Chaplin Revue) |
| Cinematography | Roland Totheroh |
| Editing by | Charlie Chaplin (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | First National Pictures Inc. |
| Release date(s) | April 14, 1918 |
| Running time | 33 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | Silent film English (original intertitles) |
A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.
Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.
Charles Lapworth, a former newspaper editor who had met Chaplin when he interviewed him, took a role as a consultant on the film.[1]
Other films where dogs appeared on screen with Chaplin were The Champion (1915), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936).
Cast
- Charles Chaplin - Tramp
- Edna Purviance - Bar singer
- Mut - Scraps, a thoroughbred mongrel
- Syd Chaplin - Lunchwagon owner
- Henry Bergman - Fat unemployed man/Dance-hall lady
- Charles Reisner - Employment agency clerk
- Albert Austin - Employment agency clerk
- Tom Wilson - Policeman
- M. J. McCarthy - Unemployed man
- Mel Brown - Unemployed man
- Charles Force - Unemployed man
- Bert Appling - Unemployed man
- Thomas Riley - Unemployed man
- Slim Cole - Unemployed man
- Ted Edwards - Unemployed man
- Louis Fitzroy - Unemployed man
References
- ^ Tom Stempel, Framework: a history of screenwriting in the American film, p.33
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