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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 965

Triple Trouble

191823 minUnited States

Synopsis

Charlie finds work in the home of an inventor whose explosive device attracts outside attention. Trouble with the servants mixes with a scheme to steal the invention, while a night in a lodging house brings another set of encounters. Domestic disorder and criminal plotting gradually converge around the house and its dangerous experiment.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 23:41
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Billy Armstrong

Edna Purviance

Leo White

DirectorsCharles Chaplin Leo White

Behind the scenes

Essanay assembled the film after Chaplin had left, combining unused Chaplin material with newly filmed scenes directed by Leo White. Its uneven continuity reflects that construction; it should not be described as a new production supervised throughout by Chaplin.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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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)
Billy Armstrong — Charlie Chaplin; www.imdb.com · Public domain
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)
Leo White — Witzel; Photoplay Magazine March, 1917; pg. 24 https://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume11112chic#page/378/mode/2up · Public domain

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