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Synopsis
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor’s daughter Edna but is disliked by her father…
Synopsis
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor’s daughter Edna but is disliked by her father…
Our take
Bubbling with creativity and sight gags, Chaplin’s rural comedy-romance (his third for First National) sees the hapless Little Tramp fighting to woo a country girl: and the chaos unfolds from there! With some delightfully playful fantasy sequences that pastiche the then-fashionable dancer Nijinsky.