Cast: Chester Conklin

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Henry Bergman · Chester Conklin

Synopsis In Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp struggles to survive in an industrialized world. As a factory worker, he faces the dehumanizing effects of machinery and efficiency-driven labor. After a nervous breakdown, he embarks on a series of misadventures,...

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Gibson Gowland · ZaSu Pitts · Jean Hersholt · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her money. Trina becomes more and more obsessed with money, refusing...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Ella Raines · Raymond Walburn · William Demarest

Synopsis Discharged from the Marines for a hay fever condition, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is too embarrassed to return home. Encouraged by some fellow soldiers to fabricate a story of being wounded in battle, Truesmith soon finds himself in...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Al Jolson · Frank Morgan · Madge Evans · Harry Langdon

Synopsis A New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Huston · Mary Brian · Richard Arlen

Synopsis Molly Wood (Mary Brian) arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian (Gary Cooper), foreman on a local ranch, and Steve, his best fiend, soon become rivals for her affection. Steve falls in with bad...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Chester Conklin · Fritz Schade · Norma Nichols

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Marie Dressler · Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Mack Swain

Synopsis Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads...

Direction Charles Chaplin · Joseph Maddern

Cast Charles Chaplin · Minta Durfee · Edgar Kennedy · Gordon Griffith

Synopsis Charlie is amidst a number of loving couples in the park. He parodies one couple by embracing a tree. A girl asks her beau for a love token. The beau steals a pocket watch from a sleeping man, Charlie gets...

Direction Mabel Normand

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Harry McCoy · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Given an hour off from his job as a cafe waiter, Charlie rescues Mabel from a thug, is given an invitation to her home, and arrives presenting a card which falsely identifies him as the Greek Ambassador. Before he can...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Chester Conklin · Charles Murray

Synopsis Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Chester Conklin · Cecile Arnold · Vivian Edwards

Synopsis Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall different girls, though Charlie's has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Chester Conklin · Mack Swain

Synopsis 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. Charlie sprays...

Direction Henry Lehrman

Cast Charles Chaplin · Virginia Kirtley · Alice Davenport · Henry Lehrman

Synopsis Edgar English cons a journalist out of some money. He applies for a job at his newspaper. Whilst the journalist is helping a trapped motorist Edgar steals the camera with the picture of the accident and rushes back to the...

Direction Mabel Normand · Mack Sennett

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Harry McCoy · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He next joins some dubious characters in abduction of his rival just before the race for the Vanderbilt Cup. With...

Direction Henry Lehrman

Cast Charles Chaplin · Ford Sterling · Emma Bell Clifton · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Charlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the...

Direction Mabel Normand

Cast Mabel Normand · Charles Chaplin · Chester Conklin · Alice Davenport

Synopsis In a hotel lobby an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied hup in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Cecile Arnold · Fritz Schade · Vivian Edwards

Synopsis The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom...

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Charles Chaplin · Ford Sterling · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Chester Conklin

Synopsis Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.

Direction Mabel Normand

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mabel Normand · Chester Conklin · Slim Summerville

Synopsis A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls...

Direction David Kramarsky · Lou Place · Roger Corman

Cast Paul Birch · Dona Cole · Leonard Tarver · Lorna Thayer