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Sydney Chaplin (center) and Phyllis Allen (right).
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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A Lover’s Lost Control
Also known as Looking Them Over in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Avery [?] and Sydney Chaplin?
Cast: Sydney Chaplin [Gussle], Phyllis Allen [his wife], Josef Swickard [a cigar-smoking customer in the shoe department], [?] Frank Alexander? [a customer in the shoe department], [?] Joy Lewis? [his daughter], [?] Jay Belasco? [a shoe clerk], [?] Wesley Ruggles? [a shoe clerk], [?] Charles Lakin? [the dishware clerk], [?] Grover Ligon? [the man calling the police], [?] Wayland Trask? [the janitor], [?] Billie Bennett? [a store customer], [?] Minnie Chaplin? [a store customer]
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / Released 2 August 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Gussle’s Disaster. [?] Completed or shipped? on 17 July 1915. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA as Looking Them Over by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Shoe stores: Shoe salesmen
Listing updated: 8 March 2015.
References: Lahue-Kops pp. 90g, 154; Lahue-Mack p. 300; Spehr-American p. 101 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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