The Count (film)

The Count
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Charles Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director)
Produced by	Henry P. Caulfield
Written by	Charles Chaplin (scenario) Vincent Bryan (scenario) Maverick Terrell (scenario)
Starring	Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Eric Campbell
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh George C. Zalibra
Edited by	Charles Chaplin
Distributed by	Mutual Film Corporation
Release dates	September 4, 1916 (1916-09-04)
Running time	34 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

The Count

The Count is Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Mutual Film Corporation in 1916. Released on September 4, it co-starred Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance.

Synopsis

The tailor's handyman (played by Chaplin) burns a count's trousers while ironing them and is fired. His superior (Campbell) discovers a note explaining the count can't attend a party, and dresses up like one to take his place.

Chaplin also goes to the residence hosting the party, but runs into the tailor. They both then struggle to win the fair maiden, Miss Moneybags (Purviance). Soon, Charlie is distracted by a gypsy girl and the tailor must fend off other suitors. The real Count finally arrives, learns of the imposters and calls the police. Chaplin makes a mad dash through the party and scampers away to safety.

Cast

Charles Chaplin - Tailor's apprentice
Edna Purviance - Miss Moneybags
Eric Campbell - Tailor

Sound version

In 1932, Amedee Van Beuren of Van Beuren Studios, purchased Chaplin's Mutual comedies for $10,000 each, added music by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples and sound effects, and re-released them through RKO Radio Pictures. Chaplin had no legal recourse to stop the RKO release.^[1]

References

↑ SilentComedians entry

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Count (film).

The short film The Count is available for free download at the Internet Archive
The Count at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Charlie Chaplin

Keystone Studios (1914)	Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in the Rain A Busy Day Her Friend the Bandit Mabel's Married Life Laughing Gas The Face on the Bar Room Floor Recreation The Masquerader His New Profession The Rounders The Property Man The New Janitor Those Love Pangs Dough and Dynamite Gentlemen of Nerve His Musical Career His Trysting Place Getting Acquainted His Prehistoric Past

Essanay Studios (1915)	His New Job A Night Out The Champion In the Park A Jitney Elopement The Tramp By the Sea His Regeneration Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen Police Triple Trouble

Mutual Film Corp (1916–17)	The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer

First National (1918–23)	A Dog's Life The Bond Shoulder Arms Sunnyside A Day's Pleasure The Professor The Kid The Idle Class Pay Day The Pilgrim

United Artists (1923–52)	A Woman of Paris The Gold Rush The Circus City Lights Modern Times The Great Dictator Monsieur Verdoux Limelight

Later productions	A King in New York A Countess from Hong Kong

See also	The Chaplin Revue The Freak

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