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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 900

Between Showers

191415 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 13:37
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Henry Lehrman · Public domain

Synopsis

Two men compete to help a woman cross a muddy street, each expecting gratitude before providing much assistance. A borrowed-looking umbrella is actually stolen, and another passerby solves the practical problem while the rivals are absent. Their return turns a supposed act of courtesy into a dispute over credit, possession and the woman's refusal to play the part they expect.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

DirectorsHenry Lehrman

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Charles Chaplin — Strauss-Peyton Studio, 1921; published in Photoplay no. 3 (1922); National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)

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