The Pawnshop
Also known as Charlot chez l’usurier in France : {The Pawn Shop}
(1916) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin [the pawnbroker’s assistant], Henry Bergman [the pawnbroker], Edna Purviance [his daughter], John Rand [the other pawnbroker’s assistant], Albert Austin [the customer with a clock], Wesley Ruggles, Eric Campbell, James T. Kelley, Frank J. Coleman

Lone Star Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Charles Chaplin. Cinematography by Roland H. Totheroh and William C. Foster. / Released 2 October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in the Lone Star Studio in Hollywood. Chaplin’s sixth film in his 12 film Mutual contract.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Clocks - Fights - Jews - Kitchens - Pawnbrokers - Pawn shops - Safes - Tools: Hammers, Ladders

Listing updated: 3 December 2008.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 81, 120-122, 294, 295, 321; Bohn-Light pp. xix, 70; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 40, 41, 50c, 84, 136; Kerr-Silent pp. 88, 92, 93, 95, 100; Lahue-World p. 67; Poague-Capra p. 34; Sinyard-Silent pp. 101, 102, 103; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy p. 301.

Home video: DVD.