Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914

6.15

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

1914

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914

5.48

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914

5.36

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

1914

The Fatal Mallet

The Fatal Mallet 1914

5.42

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

1914

Twenty Minutes of Love

Twenty Minutes of Love 1914

5.56

Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.

1914

Gentlemen of Nerve

Gentlemen of Nerve 1914

5.65

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.

1914

Mabel at the Wheel

Mabel at the Wheel 1914

5.65

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

1914

Caught in the Rain

Caught in the Rain 1914

5.62

When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.

1914

His Musical Career

His Musical Career 1914

5.91

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

1914

The Face on the Barroom Floor

The Face on the Barroom Floor 1914

5.23

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

1914

Those Love Pangs

Those Love Pangs 1914

5.52

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

1914

His Trysting Places

His Trysting Places 1914

6.16

On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.

1914

Mabel's Married Life

Mabel's Married Life 1914

5.85

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.

1914

Between Showers

Between Showers 1914

5.30

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

1914

The New Janitor

The New Janitor 1914

6.04

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love 1914

5.09

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

1914

The Property Man

The Property Man 1914

5.55

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret 1914

5.62

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

1914

Won in a Closet

Won in a Closet 1914

5.00

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

1914