A Woman (1915)
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Synopsis:
After breaking up a philandering husband's flirtations in the park, a ne'er-do-well unwittingly cosies up to his wife and daughter and finds himself invited home for tea. Later the husband returns home with another injured party...
Review:
The opening segment in the park is familiar stuff (cf. In the Park which uses the same locations) but the film gets up a good head of steam later with room-to-room fistifcuffs (some great direction and editing over the changes). Its chief interest, however, and the source of its title, is found when to evade discovery Charlie dresses up in Edna's clothes and shaves off his moustache: a great female impersonator is revealed! The climax, where the roguish interloper attempts to reconcile the errant husband, backed up by a touch of blackmail, is straight out of Beaumarchais. A bold piece of experimentation from those vitally formative months at Essanay, refining a fast, concise, callous and racy comic technique.
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Synopsis:
After breaking up a philandering husband's flirtations in the park, a ne'er-do-well unwittingly cosies up to his wife and daughter and finds himself invited home for tea. Later the husband returns home with another injured party...
Review:
The opening segment in the park is familiar stuff (cf. In the Park which uses the same locations) but the film gets up a good head of steam later with room-to-room fistifcuffs (some great direction and editing over the changes). Its chief interest, however, and the source of its title, is found when to evade discovery Charlie dresses up in Edna's clothes and shaves off his moustache: a great female impersonator is revealed! The climax, where the roguish interloper attempts to reconcile the errant husband, backed up by a touch of blackmail, is straight out of Beaumarchais. A bold piece of experimentation from those vitally formative months at Essanay, refining a fast, concise, callous and racy comic technique.
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Synopsis:
After breaking up a philandering husband's flirtations in the park, a ne'er-do-well unwittingly cosies up to his wife and daughter and finds himself invited home for tea. Later the husband returns home with another injured party...
Review:
The opening segment in the park is familiar stuff (cf. In the Park which uses the same locations) but the film gets up a good head of steam later with room-to-room fistifcuffs (some great direction and editing over the changes). Its chief interest, however, and the source of its title, is found when to evade discovery Charlie dresses up in Edna's clothes and shaves off his moustache: a great female impersonator is revealed! The climax, where the roguish interloper attempts to reconcile the errant husband, backed up by a touch of blackmail, is straight out of Beaumarchais. A bold piece of experimentation from those vitally formative months at Essanay, refining a fast, concise, callous and racy comic technique.