A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Charlotte Mineau, Charles Chaplin, Charles J. Stine     and Leo White.     Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Charles Chaplin [an actor], Ben Turpin [a rival actor in Lodestone office], Leo White [the male assistant in the Lodestone office; and the bearded actor in uniform], Charlotte Mineau [the film actress], Charles J. Stine [the director], Robert Bolder [the studio president], Arthur W. Bates [the stagehand], Jess Robbins [the cameraman], Gloria Swanson [the secretary in the Lodestone office], [?] Charles Hitchcock? [the movie star], Frank J. Coleman, Charles Insley, Bud Jamison, Billy Armstrong [extra], Agnes Ayres [extra]

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] Essanay Film Manufacturing Company or The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Jess Robbins. Scenario by Charles Chaplin [?] + Louella Parsons? / © 1915 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. Released 1 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in the Essanay film studio in Chicago, Illinois. Chaplin’s first film for Essanay. The film was released in Sweden on 30 August 1915. The film was released in Spain on 22 December 1915.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Keywords: Actors: Film - Actresses: Film - Costumes - Directors - Gambling - Games: Dice - Hearing aids - Movie studios - Offices - Weapons: Swords

Listing updated: 25 March 2012.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 86, 119, 213; Brownlow-Parade pp. 504, 505; Hudson-Swanson p. 10; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 18d, 34-35, 135; Lahue-World pp. 64a, 176; Quirk-Swanson pp. 12, 17, 20; Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-GEH; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.