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Henry Bergman, Eric Campbell, Charles Chaplin, Charlotte Mineau, Edna Purviance ... see more see more... , Leo White , Albert Austin , Lloyd Bacon , James T. Kelly

Charlie Chaplin launched his 670,000-dollar contract with the Mutual Film Corporation with the hilarious The Floorwalker. The film's chief comedic device, the store escalator, was inspired by Chaplin'... read more read more...s visit to New York, where, at an elevated train station, he saw a minor accident involving one. The manager of the store receives a letter -- his superiors are coming to investigate him. He's been skimming money from the store, in cahoots with the bossy and mean floorwalker who bears a striking resemblance to Charlie. The pair decide they're going to take off with the cash and begin emptying the safe in the office upstairs. Meanwhile, Charlie comes wandering into the store, trying out everything but buying nothing. The store seems to be infested with shoplifters and store detectives. Charlie gets caught by one of the latter when he tries to buy a display rack. He escapes upstairs where he encounters his doppelganger who has just knocked out the manager and is escaping with a suitcase full of money. The lookalikes do the classic mirror routine, copied later by the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup. They agree to exchange clothes and identities, but the real floorwalker is arrested as the Tramp, leaving behind the satchel full of loot. Charlie takes over the floorwalker's duties, getting involved with various customers, especially the ladies in the shoe department. When Charlie finds the case, he's ecstatic, until Eric Campbell awakens and, mistaking him for his crooked partner, begins a merry chase up and down the escalator and all around the store, hampered only by the ever-vigilant store detectives. The real floorwalker returns in custody and comes clean, implicating the manager. The chase continues until Charlie is caught in the elevator by a detective as it descends upon the head of Campbell who is also apprehended. ~ Phil Posner, Rovi

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Unrated, 20 min.

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Release Date: May 15, 1916

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  • thmtsang
    December 20, 2008
    thmtsang
    Classic Charlie Chaplin silent movie. Charlie unwittingly uncovers a department stores' shoplifters and theiving managers' scams. My favourite scenes are on the first filmed escalator in a department store.
  • deano
    August 20, 2008
    deano
    Performing in inimitable style on an escalator, or in common parlance, a moving stairway, injecting new "business", such as Charlie Chaplin has not given to the public in previous comedies, producing the film carefully with adequate settings and excellent photography, supported b... read morey a well-chosen cast, he proves conclusively that he is without question of doubt the world's greatest comedian. Chaplin possesses that indefinable something which makes me laugh heartily and without restraint at what in others would be called commonplace actions.

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