The Rival Mashers
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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 his girl's friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1914
Length: 10'03''
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
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Actors:
Chester Conklin ... Rival
Cecile Arnold ... Blonde Girl
Vivian Edwards ... Brunette Girl
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Baxter Martin
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2008-01-19 10:17:04
modified on: 2008-01-21 10:48:30
Chaplin's The Rival Mashers
“The Rival Mashers” (1914, Chaplin)
“The Rival Mashers” would be Chaplin’s 28th turn acting, 14th directing, and one of thirty five films made in 1914 for Keystone Studio. This story involves Charlie and a friend of his apparently out looking for love, or at least some prostitutes for a substitute. Charlie’s friend Chester finds a blonde girl in the park immediately while Charlie’s efforts with a brunette end when her foot-taller boyfriend shows up and develops immediate hostility towards Charlie. As Charlie is the only male in this story to be unsuccessful, he seeks to act out that frustration on the so far successful men. He ends up pulling the big guy into the park lake and knocking out his ‘friend’ Chester. There are some funny antics parsed around. Some fork sticking butts, spitting in a dude’s eye, drops a brick on a guy’s foot in plain sight. Most of these early shorts hold morsels of Chaplin’s talent shining through but this one is middle of the road at best