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Henry Bergman, Charles Chaplin, Fred Goodwins, Bud Jamison, Edna Purviance ... see more see more... , Carl Stockdale , Leo White , Lloyd Bacon , Ernest Van Pelt , Paddy McGuire

The title of Charlie Chaplin's fifth comedy for Essanay refers to the popular term for a Model T Ford, a jitney. Its theme of impersonation was one Chaplin had used before in Caught in a Cabaret and H... read more read more...er Friend the Bandit, and would use again in The Count and other films. Chaplin's girlfriend Edna Purviance is about to be forced by her father to wed the wealthy Count de Ha-Ha (Leo White), whom neither has met. Chaplin, dropping by for a visit, stands below her bedroom window whistling for her. She tosses him a note from the Count, announcing his visit and pleads to be rescued. Chaplin impersonates the Count and is welcomed by her mercenary father. He's given drinks and cigars and sits down to lunch with Purviance and her father. Chaplin performs a bit that he had done in one of the Karno sketches, that of carving a loaf of bread into a spiral and using it as an accordion. Although his table manners are decidedly not upper class, Chaplin pulls off the impersonation until the real Count arrives. The enraged father kicks Chaplin out of the house, then goes out for a spin with Purviance and the Count in the latter's car. They drive to a park where father hopes the Count can sweet-talk Purviance into marrying him. At first horrified by his intentions, she breaks out into gales of laughter at the sight of the tattered seat of his pants. Chaplin happens by and steals Purviance away, dispatching Count and father, along with a couple of cops. The fleeing couple steal the Count's jitney, and lead Count, father and cop, now following in a car they've taken, on a merry chase. The chase leads them to a pier, where in a clever stop-motion photography scene, the cars jockey about until Chaplin bumps the other car off the pier and into the water. A happy Chaplin and Purviance are about to kiss as the film fades out. ~ Phil Posner, Rovi

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Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Release Date: April 1, 1915

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  • Ivan6655321
    October 15, 2010
    Ivan6655321
    One of Chaplin's better shorts, with him playing with identity and extreme parentage. The car chase sequence, considering the plot, was a little out of place, but it was a great attempt of putting comedy into physical extremes, and might be the closest he can get to a Keaton stun... read moret sequence(Chaplin did not indulge much with over-the-top stunts).

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