Tillie's Punctured Romance
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. The picture is the first feature-length comedy and was the only feature-length comedy made by the Keystone Film Company.
Plot
Charles Chaplin portrays a womanizing city man who meets Tillie (Marie Dressler) in the country after a fight with his girlfriend (Mabel Normand). When he sees that Tillie's father (Mack Swain) has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. In the city, he meets the woman he was seeing already, and tries to work around the complication to steal Tillie's money. He gets Tillie drunk in a restaurant and asks her to let him hold the pocketbook. Since she is drunk, she agrees, and he escapes with his old girlfriend and the money.
Cast
- A. Edward Sutherland
- Al St. John
- Alice Davenport
- Alice Howell
- Billie Bennett
- Billy Gilbert
- Charles Bennett
- Charles Murray
- Charley Chase
- Charlie Chaplin
- Chester Conklin
- Dan Albert
- Edgar Kennedy
- Edwin Frazee
- Fred Hibbard
- Fritz Schade
- Glen Cavender
- Gordon Griffith
- Grover Ligon
- Hampton Del Ruth
- Hank Mann
- Harry McCoy
- Helen Carruthers
- Hugh Saxon
- Joe Bordeaux
- Josef Swickard
- Keystone Kops
- Mabel Normand
- Mack Swain
- Marie Dressler
- Milton Berle
- Minta Durfee
- Morgan Wallace
- Nick Cogley
- Phyllis Allen
- Rube Miller
- Slim Summerville
- Wallace MacDonald
- William Hauber
More details
| author | Hampton Del Ruth Mack Sennett |
|---|---|
| director | Mack Sennett |
| genre | comedy romance |
| keywords | arrest charles chaplin elope force mansion morality play newspaper nickelodeon old girlfriend park bench rescue smuggle sole heir the park bench two girls womanize |
| musicBy | Hans May |
| producer | Mack Sennett |
| productionCompany | Keystone Film Company |
| publisher | Alco Film Corporation |
| theme | romantic comedy slapstick |