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Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Writer
  
Charles Chaplin

7.8/10
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Director
  
Charlie Chaplin

Duration
  

Country
  
US

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Language
  
Silent filmEnglish (original intertitles)

Release date
  
April 14, 1918 (1918-04-14)

Wolf among us song a dog s life by miracle of sound


A Dog's Life is a 1918 American short silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films.

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Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.

A Dogs Life movie scenes

Charles Lapworth, a former newspaper editor who had met Chaplin when he interviewed him, took a role as a consultant on the film.

Cast

  • Charlie Chaplin – The Tramp
  • Edna Purviance – Bar singer
  • Mut – Scraps, a thoroughbred mongrel
  • Syd Chaplin – Lunchwagon owner
  • Henry Bergman – Fat unemployed man/Dance-hall lady
  • Charles Reisner – Employment agency clerk
  • Albert Austin – Employment agency clerk / Thief
  • Bud Jamison – Thief
  • Tom Wilson – Policeman
  • M. J. McCarthy – Unemployed man
  • Mel Brown – Unemployed man
  • Charles Force – Unemployed man
  • Bert Appling – Unemployed man
  • Thomas Riley – Unemployed man
  • Slim Cole – Unemployed man
  • Ted Edwards – Unemployed man
  • Louis Fitzroy – Unemployed man

    • References

    A Dog's Life Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    A Dogs Life IMDb A Dogs Life themoviedb.org


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