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Pay Day

192228 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A construction worker struggles through a day's labor and receives his wages, only to find that his wife expects to take charge of the money. He keeps enough for a night out drinking. The challenge then becomes getting home and appearing ready for another working day before his escapade is discovered.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
22:26
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

This copy runs shorter than the reference runtime. Editing and playback speed can differ between editions.

Cast

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

Pay Day was Chaplin's last two-reel comedy. Monta Bell assisted with the development of its written scenario, and the production was completed in 31 shooting days, a considerably shorter schedule than Chaplin's preceding short, The Idle Class.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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