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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 902

The Count

191625 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 25:14
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

Synopsis

A tailor discovers that an aristocrat cannot attend a party and decides to take his place. His recently dismissed assistant reaches the same gathering, where both men compete for a wealthy young woman's attention. Their uncertain manners strain the disguise until the real count arrives, making the evening's social ambition a much more immediate problem of escape.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

Eric Campbell

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Historical context

Chaplin and Eric Campbell carry workplace rivalry into a fashionable party. The imposture depends on clothing and a borrowed name, while dining and dancing continually expose the distance between appearance and practiced social knowledge.

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Photograph credit

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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)
Edna Purviance — Unknown photographer, 1923; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 8372 / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Eric Campbell — Unknown photographer, by 1917; The Moving Picture World (1918), p. 53; Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)

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