Cruel, Cruel Love (1914) 痛ましの恋

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Plot

Chaplin plays a rich, upper-class gentleman called Lord Helpus, whose romance is put in jeopardy when his girlfriend, jumps to the wrong conclusion after seeing him embracing her maid. She angrily sends him away, saying she never wants to see him again. Lord Helpus is distraught and decides to end his life, swallowing what he thinks is a glass of poison and imagining himself being tortured in Hell. The girlfriend's gardener and maid explain to her that Lord Helpus was not flirting at all and she sends a note of apology to him. Upon reading it, Lord Helpus flies into a panic and summons an ambulance to help him, before he dies from the fatal dose of poison; however, his butler had switched the liquid in the glass to harmless water, so there is n o danger.

Cast

Charlie Chaplin - Lord Helpus/Mr. Dovey チャーリー・チャップリン
Chester Conklin - Butler チェスター・コンクリン
Minta Durfee - the Lady ミンタ・ダーフィ
Eva Nelson - the Maid エヴァ・ネルソン

1914年の作品。
長年失われた作品とされていたが、のちになって発見される。
発見されたものは完全なものではなく、9分。本来は16分の作品。





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