DVD Blue Boxes: Charlie Chaplin's"Making A Living" (1914)

Friday, June 13, 2008

Charlie Chaplin's"Making A Living" (1914)

This is Charlie Chaplin's 1st Film Released Feb. 02 1914Making a Living is the first film appearance of Charlie Chaplin, which premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays a lady-charming swindler, Edgar English, who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. Chaplin's famed screen persona of "the Little Tramp" did not appear until the film Kid Auto Races at Venice. Find more Chaplin films: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004288/
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar. Written by Ed Stephan