by Sennett, Mack; Sloane, Edgar; Sloane, A. Baldwin; Dressler, Marie; Chaplin, Charlie; Normand, Mabel; Bennett, Charles; Swain, Mack; Keystone Kops; Keystone Film Company; State Rights; Audio Brandon Films. Restaurant Dancer/Policeman/Mountain Innkeeper/Party Guest, Hugh Saxon ...Bank's shorter Secretary searching for Tillie, Morgan Wallace ... Thief in the Movie within the Movie, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 03:35. The film’s final reel is a comedic crescendo, building from a brief pie fight to mayhem caused by Tillie firing a pistol indiscriminately, culminating with a farcical chase on a pier featuring the Keystone Cops on land and sea.”[6]. Tweet. They move into the uncle's mansion and throw a big party, which ends horribly when Tillie finds her husband with his old girlfriend, smuggled into the house and working as one of their maids. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 film directed by Mack Sennett, starring Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand. [9] but the role was actually portrayed by Gordon Griffith. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) Tweet. The Chaplin Project film restoration by the British Film Institute, National Film and Television Archive, 2004. 1914. Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. "Tillie's Punctured Romance" was remade a couple of times, most notably in 1928 with W.C. Fields. Year. B. Sloanea i Edgara Smitha, koja je nekoliko godina ranije imala veliki uspjeh na Broadwayu . Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops. print. It was coupled with Mabel's Married Life (1914), another Keystone film featuring Normand, Chaplin and Swain. Tillie is named sole heir and inherits three million dollars. Mabel is Charlie's streetwise girlfriend. The world's first feature-length comedy & also Mr. Charles Chaplin's 1st feature. The contrast between the diminutive, “bow-legged” Chaplin and the bovine and “bulky” Dressler, adds to the absurdity of their pairing. It stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin in his pre Tramp days and Mabel Normand, Mack Swain also appears as Tille’s father who would make a number of films with Chaplin In this film Chaplin plays the “bad guy”. Marie Dressler Charles Chaplin Mabel Normand. In it, Chaplin plays an entirely different role from his Tramp character, which was relatively new at the time. Following its December 21, 1914 premiere at the Los Angeles Republic Theatre,[10] the film was a tremendous success. In the film Chaplin plays a sleazy city slicker who stays the night at a farm. "Tillie's Punctured Romance" is a historical curiosity, necessary for your Chaplin collection out of a sense of completeness rather than for great comic enjoyment. Chaplin, out of his Tramp character, is the city slicker trying to put one over on farm girl Dressler, who pursues revenge. In 2003 a second restoration, a collaboration between UCLA Film and Television Archive and the British Film Institute, used more complete, higher quality materials and saw Tillie returned almost to its original length. Production dates and credits taken from AFI. Followed by “Tillie's Tomato Surprise” and “Tillie Wakes Up,” which starred Dressler but not Chaplin. Country. 2 reels of 2 (43 min.) Genre ... Based on the musical comedy "Tillie's nightmare" by Edgar Smith. [8] Dressler would revive the play with her own touring company. He does so, and reads the story about Tillie's Uncle Banks (Charles Bennett), a millionaire who died while on a mountain-climbing expedition. Director. It remained in theatrical release for years, being continually re-edited and shortened, and much later having optical soundtracks added featuring music, sound effects and narration. Tillie's Punctured Romance was the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. Mack Sennett. Crossword Clue The crossword clue Marie of "Tillie's Punctured Romance" with 8 letters was last seen on the January 01, 2005.We think the likely answer to this clue is DRESSLER.Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. Written by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson and directed by A. Edward Sutherland, this movie has nothing to do with the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film aside from sharing the same title. Since she is drunk, she agrees, and he escapes with his old girlfriend and the money. For decades the film was only available in poor quality, truncated prints, but eventually David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates released his restoration on LaserDisc (1997) and DVD (1999) via Image Entertainment. While sitting on a park bench, a paperboy (Gordon Griffith) asks him to buy a newspaper. lícula es va estrenar el 21 de desembre de l'any 1914 i és considerada el primer llargmetratge del gènere de comèdia de la història. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004707/ Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops. USA. Feature length vehicle for Marie Dressler who plays Tillie but also starring Charlie as the city slicker who seduces her away from the country and takes all her money. Uncle Banks insists that Tillie be arrested for the damage she has caused to his house. Later that day, they see a picture show entitled "A Thief's Fate", which illustrates their thievery in the form of a morality play. Naslovna protagonistica, koju, isto kao i u kazališnoj verziji, tumači Marie Dressler , je bogata nasljednica koju zavede i za koju se vjenča beskrupulozni ženskar (čiji lik tumači Chaplin). Charles Chaplin portrays a womanizing city man who meets Tillie (Marie Dressler) in the country after a fight with his girlfriend (Mabel Normand). Another comedy called Tillie's Punctured Romance was released in 1928 starring W. C. Fields as a circus ringmaster. In The Simpsons episode American History X-cellent, one of Mr. Burns' belongings includes a ticket stub for Tillie's Punctured Romance. : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. Tillie's Punctured Romance is notable for being the last Chaplin film which he neither wrote nor directed, as well as the first feature-length comedy in all of cinema. In Tillie Wakes Up, the Tillie character has a different last name, which could be explained by the fact that her character is married. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a lost 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway. [11] As the Mutual Film Corporation, distributors of all Keystone's shorts, was not equipped to handle features, Tillie became Chaplin's only Keystone to be distributed by the newly-formed Alco Film Corporation. It was based on a play starring Dressler, Tillie's Nightmare. Other articles where Tillie’s Punctured Romance is discussed: Marie Dressler: …of her first motion picture, Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914). Pendleton, 2004, UCLA: Dressler “one of the American stage’s most popular actresses in the early 1900s....triumphed as the title character in Tillie’s Nightmare.” And: Sennett “the preeminent maker of film comedy” in his day. It stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett and was distributed by Alco Film Corporation. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops. In the city, he meets the woman he was seeing already, and tries to work around the complication to steal Tillie's money. [4] Comedian Charles Chaplin, who had been with Sennett’s studio since December 1913, was selected to play opposite Dressler as Charlie, an unscrupulous playboy and bounder. Synopsis. Based on the musical comedy Tillie's Nightmare, book by Edgar Sloane, lyrics by A. Baldwin Sloane (New York, 5 May 1910). First feature length comedy film. The uncle is found on a mountaintop, alive after all. This is one of only two films (the other is Making a Living, another pre-Tramp film) in which both Chaplin and the Keystone Cops appear. Directed by Mack Sennett. The WORLD’S OUTSTANDING COMEDIANS IN THE FUNNIEST COMEDY OF ALL TIME A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. He leaves, and the two girls become friends. [5]. He gets Tillie drunk in a restaurant and asks her to let him hold the pocketbook. Sennett augmentation of the film length from two-reels to six-reels provided him with sufficient scope to showcase his ensemble of talented players in numerous venues: “...many scenes are shot on location, and Sennett intercuts deftly to four different locations. Chester Conklin and Mack Swain appear in both movies, however. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charlie Chaplin, as well as the Keystone Kops. Access restricted to subscribers. Credits from American Film Institute Catalog. CBPF. Cast & Credits. Tillie's Punctured Romance ★★ 1914The silent comedy which established Chaplin and Dressler as comedians. When he sees that Tillie's father (Mack Swain) has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. Milton Berle always claimed that he played the five-year-old paperboy in the film. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops.The picture was the first feature-length motion picture produced by the Keystone Film Company, and is the only one featuring Chaplin.. When slapstick impresario Mack Sennett proposed to adapt the 1910 Broadway comedy Tillie's Nightmare to the screen in 1914, he enlisted the immensely successful star of the stage production, the then 45-year-old Marie Dressler, to play the guileless ingenue, Tillie Banks. They both feel guilty and leave the theater. This version has been released in the fully restored Chaplin at Keystone 4-DVD box set (2010) by various labels worldwide.[12]. © 2020 The Regents of the University of California, all rights reserved. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) Keystone 1914. Tillie Banks, the farmer's daughter Dec 13, 2018 - Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) Starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain. The film, which costs roughly $50,000 ($1.2 million in 2015) to make, was based on the Broadway play Tillie's Nightmare,[7] which Dressler had great success in, on Broadway, and on tour in the United States, from 1910 to 1912. "Tillie's Punctured Romance" was remade a couple of times, most notably in 1928 with W.C. Fields. Based on the musical comedy Tillie's Nightmare, book by Edgar Sloane, lyrics by A. Baldwin Sloane (New York, 5 May 1910). You can easily improve … He begs her to take him back and although she is skeptical at first, she believes that he truly loves her and they marry. -but when the chaplain makes Miss Fortune his missus, misfortune follows his big mistake! She flails about, hoping to be rescued. The picture was the first feature-length motion picture produced by the Keystone Film Company, and is the only one featuring Chaplin. Cast. Tillie Banks (Marie Dressler), a beautiful heiress, falls prey to a charming crook named Charlie (Charles Chaplin) who lures her to the city and then promptly swindles her. The picture was the first feature-length motion picture produced by the Keystone Film Company, and is the only one featuring Chaplin. Can only be reproduced in conjunction with promotion of the film. "Tillie's Punctured Romance" is a historical curiosity, necessary for your Chaplin collection out of a sense of completeness rather than for great comic enjoyment. 73m/B VHS, DVD . When he sees that Tillie’s father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. Tonight: Tillie's Punctured Romance: Part 2 with Marie Dressier and Mabel Normand Charlie stops at nothing for money - not even marriage! The film Tillie’s Punctured Romance is a 5 reeler (later 7 would become the norm). Although often erroneously cited as a remake, the later movie actually bears no resemblance to the 1914 film aside from the shared title. The film is based on Dressler's stage play Tillie's Nightmare by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith. Tillie's Punctured Romance Radnja se temelji na kazališnoj predstavi Tillie's Nightmare A. Dressler appeared as Tillie in three more movies, Tillie's Tomato Surprise (1915), Tillie Wakes Up (1917), and The Scrub Lady (1917), aka Tillie the Scrub Lady. The man leaves his girlfriend on the park bench and runs to the restaurant, where Tillie is now forced to work to support herself as she is too embarrassed to go home. Film details. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1914 American silent comedy movie directed by Mack Sennett and was based on the play Tillie's Nightmare by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith. CBPF. Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. The three run from the cops all the way to a dock, where a car "bumps" Tillie into the water. She is eventually pulled to safety, and both Tillie and the man's girlfriend realize that they are too good for him. Though Chaplin’s signature “The Tramp” character was already well-developed in other Sennett two-reelers (he had already appeared in more than 30 shorts as the Tramp by the time), here he abandons the sweet-natured hobo to play a villain. He goes back to his mansion, in disarray after Tillie instigated a gunfight (a direct result of the husband smuggling the old girlfriend into the house) which, luckily, did not harm anyone. Featuring. 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