Sunnyside

Independent Films, Comedy

Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous--either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.

Tags

• Charlie Chaplin
• nymph dance
• Dream
• love
• early cinema
• hollywood

Directors:

• Charles Chaplin

Actors:

• Charles Chaplin ... Farm handyman Edna Purviance ... Village Belle Tom Wilson ... Boss Tom Terriss ... Young Man from the City Henry Bergman ... Villager and Edna's Father Loyal Underwood ... Fat Boy's Father Tom Wood ... Fat Boy Helen Kohn ... Nymph Olive Burton ... Nymph Willie Mae Carson ... Nymph Olive Ann Alcorn ... Nymph J. Parks Jones (as Park Jones) Granville Redmond A.D. Blake N.E. Hendrix (as Shorty Hendricks) Lulu Jenks George Cole David Kohn Tom Harrington