A Days Pleasure
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Genre Short, Comedy Screenplay Charlie Chaplin Writer Charles Chaplin | 6.8/10 IMDb Director Charlie Chaplin Music director Charlie Chaplin Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent film
English (Original intertitles) Release date December 15, 1919 (1919-12-15) Cast Charlie Chaplin (Father), Edna Purviance , Jackie Coogan , Henry Bergman , Babe London Similar movies Pacific Rim , The Artist , Paperman , Feast , Pluto's Christmas Tree , Mickey and the Seal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A days pleasure
A Day's Pleasure (1919) is Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature The Kid. It is about a day outing with his wife and the kids and things do not go smoothly. Edna Purviance plays Chaplin's wife and Jackie Coogan one of the kids. The first scene shows the Chaplin Studio corner office in the background while Chaplin tries to get his car started.
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Plot
After an initial scene featuring a Ford which is extremely reluctant to start, most of the action takes place on an excursion ferry. Gags revolve around seasickness, which Charlie, an fat couple, and even the boat's all-black ragtime band succumb to, deckchairs, and Charlie's comic pugnacity. This is followed by a scene of the family returning home, and encountering trouble at an intersection, which involves a traffic cop, and hot tar.
Reception
A Day's Pleasure is almost universally regarded as Chaplin's least impressive First National film. Even contemporary critics were muted in their enthusiasm, as evidenced by this mixed review from the December 8, 1919 New York Times:
"Charlie Chaplin is screamingly funny in his latest picture, A Day's Pleasure, at the Strand, when he tries in vain to solve the mysteries of a collapsible deck chair. He is also funny in many little bits of pantomime and burlesque, in which he is inimitable. But most of the time he depends for comedy upon seasickness, a Ford car, and biff-bang slap-stick, with which he is little, if any, funnier than many other screen comedians."
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