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The Rounders

  • Director: Charles Chaplin
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Buddy Film
  • Themes: Foibles of Marriage
  • Release Year: 1914
  • Country: US

Plot

In his 26th Keystone comedy Charlie Chaplin pairs off with fellow Keystone star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Chaplin and Arbuckle are both drunks and are both married to domineering wives. Chaplin, dressed in top hat and evening clothes, arrives drunk to his hotel and is confronted by wife Phyllis Allen who berates and manhandles him. Arbuckle arrives a few moments later and, in an adjacent room, meets a similar fate with his wife, Minta Durfee, his real life spouse. The noise of their fight makes Allen send Chaplin over to see what's going on. Durfee begins to attack Chaplin, and Allen intervenes on his behalf. With the ladies locked in battle, the men, realizing that they are lodge brothers, steal money from their wives' purses and escape to a nearby cafe. At the cafe they cause a commotion, both eventually bunking down to sleep on the cafe floor. By now the wives have discovered that they've been robbed and have banded together to look for Chaplin and Arbuckle. They arrive at the cafe but the boys escape and stagger to a park. Just before the wives and the outraged cafe patrons can catch them, they take a rowboat from a couple at the park and row out to the middle of the lake, where they lay down to sleep. Unfortunately, the boat has a leak and both men go down with the ship. ~ Phil Posner, All Movie Guide

Cast

Phyllis Allen - Charlie's Wife; Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle - His Neighbor; Charles Chaplin - Reveller; Charley Chase - Diner; Minta Durfee - Fatty's Wife; Al St. John - Bellhop; Wallace MacDonald - Diner; Fritz Schade - Diner

Credit

Charles Chaplin - Director, Frank D. Williams - Cinematographer, Mack Sennett - Producer, Charles Chaplin - Screenwriter

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The Rounders

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Directed by Charles Chaplin
Produced by Mack Sennett
Written by Charles Chaplin
Starring Charles Chaplin
Roscoe Arbuckle
Cinematography Frank D. Williams
Editing by Charles Chaplin
Distributed by Keystone Studios
Release date(s) 1914
Running time 16 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles

For a 1965 film of the same name, see The Rounders (1965 film).

For a 1966 television series of the same name, see The Rounders (TV series).


The Rounders is a 1914 comedy short starring Charles Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film involves two drunks fighting with their wives who then go out to get even drunker, and was written and directed by Charles Chaplin.

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Cast

Uncredited cast

  • Billy Gilbert as Doorman in blackface
  • Cecile Arnold as Hotel Guest
  • Dixie Chene as Diner
  • Edward F. Cline as Hotel Guest in Lobby
  • Ted Edwards as Cop
  • William Hauber as Waiter
  • Edgar Kennedy in Bit Part

Trivia

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  • Chaplin and Arbuckle's drunk scenes have been described as "Laurel and Hardy on acid,"[citation needed] although this was long before Laurel and Hardy teamed up.
  • The Rounders was filmed during Chaplin's first year in movies.

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