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Chaplin's The Rival Mashers
2008-01-19 10:17:04
“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
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