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His New Profession - Movie Review |
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His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair and is a park farce on the same order as many of his earlier shorts. His New Profession was Chaplins 25th film for Keystone. It opens with a famous shot of Charlie sitting on a park bench, reading Police Gazette, the National Enquirer of its time. A young man offers the poor Charlie a dollar to wheel his crippled uncle around in a bath chair while he walks out with his girlfriend. Charlie wheels the uncle around unhappily until he hits on a plan to put a sign on the sleeping old man saying "help a cripple". He collects enough in a tin cup to go and get drunk. Meanwhile the couple have broken up and Charlie finds the girl and flirts with her, while kicking the old man's chair to the end of the jetty. Inevitably this results in a fight with the nephew, the girl, and two policemen, during which Charlie kicks the uncle out of the way again and steals off with the girl.
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His New Profession - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: Charles Chaplin Produced by: Mack Sennett Written by: Charles Chaplin Starring: Cecile Arnold, Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Jess Dandy Crew: Frank D Williams Copyright: Public Domain Format: Silent, Black + White Duration: 16 mins Year: 1914 Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Keystone, Silent, Slapstick, Vaudville |
His New Profession Trivia - Did You Know?To some extent, the story of Chaplin's popular success and artistic evolution is evident from even a cursory examination of the sheer volume of Chaplin's works (and the compensation he received). In 1914 at Keystone, Chaplin appeared in thirty-five one- and two-reel films (as well as the six-reeler Tillie's Punctured Romance), about half of which he directed himself, for the yearly salary of $7,800. Related FilmsA Woman | One AM | Burlesque On Carmen | Easy Street | His New Job | |
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