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Laughing Gas
by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is sent to the drug store, gets in a fight with a man who (after a brick in the face) becomes another patient, and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife (who is out walking). At one point Charlie pulls a tooth (the wrong one) using enormous pliers
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1914
Length: 12min 57sec
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
Directors:
Charles Chaplin
Producers:
Mack Sennett
Actors:
Charles Chaplin .... Dentist's Assistant
Fritz Schade .... Dr. Pain, the Dentist
Alice Howell .... Dentist's Wife
Joseph Sutherland .... Short Assistant
Slim Summerville .... Patient
Josef Swickard .... Patient
Mack Swain .... Patient
Gene Marsh .... Patient (uncredited)
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