Caught in the Rain
R: Charles Chaplin. B: Charles Chaplin. K: Frank D. Williams. D: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Alice Davenport, Alice Howell. P: Keystone Film Company. USA 1914
“Caught in the Rain is an important work in Chaplin’s career as it is his first film in which scenario and direction were exclusively his own. Chaplin remembered in his autobiography: When I started directing my first picture, I was not as confident as I thought I would be; in fact, I had a slight attack of panic. But after Sennett saw the first day’s work I was reassured…Caught in the Rain…was not a world-beater, but it was funny and quite a success. The film draws upon past successes; Caught in the Rain is not an ambitious effort. The comedy begins in a park (a throwback to Twenty Minutes of Love) quickly moves to a bar (the excuse for Chaplin’s sure-fire drunkard), and finishes with a hotel lobby and room mixup (in the manner of Mabel’s Strange Predicament). Chaplin ends the film with the Keystone Cops for good measure. Chaplin revisited similar situations in A Night Out (1915).
Charlie Chaplin
Twenty Minutes of Love
R: Joseph Maddern, Charles Chaplin. B: Charles Chaplin. K: Frank D. Williams. D: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Chester Conklin. P: Keystone Film Company. USA 1914
THE EARLY SILENT ERA 1895-1915