The Fatal Mallet
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Director Mack Sennett Producer Mack Sennett Writer Mack Sennett | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Short, Comedy Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent film
English (Original titles) Release date June 1, 1914 (1914-06-01) Screenplay Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett Cast Charles Chaplin (Suitor), Mabel Normand (Mabel), Mack Sennett (Suitor), Mack Swain (Another rival), Gordon Griffith (Boy (uncredited))Similar movies Pacific Rim , Feast , Paperman , The Artist , Hic-cup Pup , Mickey and the Seal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's rivals for Normand's attention (Sennett and Normand were offscreen lovers during this period).
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The Fatal Mallet is one of more than a dozen early films that writer/director/comedian Mabel Normand made with Charles Chaplin; Normand, who had written and directed films before Chaplin, mentored the young comedian.
Synopsis
Three men will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie (in famous tramp guise) and one other suitor (unusually played by Mack Sennett himself) teams up against the third, and play dirty, throwing bricks and using a mallet. However, Charlie double-crosses his partner, thus losing his trust and the girl in the end.
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