Tillies Punctured Romance/Mabels Married Life

Image Not Available Director: Mack Sennett Dvd Release: 24th August, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, Region 0 Encoding

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Tillies Punctured Romance was the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company & the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charlie Chaplin, as well as the Keystone Kops. Chaplin plays a womanizing city man who meets Tillie in the country after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillies father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. In the city, he meets the woman he was seeing already, played by Mabel Normand & tries to work around the complication to steal Tillies money. He gets Tillie drunk in a restaurant & asks her to let him hold the pocketbook. Since she is drunk, she agrees & he escapes with his old girlfriend & the money. Later that day, they see a picture show entitled A Thiefs Fate, which illustrates their thievery in the form of a morality play. They both feel guilty & leave the theatre. While sitting on a park bench, a paperboy asks him to buy a paper.

Michael Sinnott, better known as Mack Sennett, was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime, he was known as the King of Comedy. Born in Richmond, Quebec, Sennett was a son of Irish immigrants. His father was a blacksmith. Sennett was a singer, dancer, clown, actor, set designer & director for Biograph & founded Keystone Studios in 1912 together with Adam Kessel. Many important actors were discovered by him & started their career at Keystone. Those include Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, the Keystone Kops & many more. Sennett first acted in films at Biograph studios, playing low comedy parts, usually oafish rural types. His chance at directing came in 1912 at the new Keystone brand. His fast-paced knockabout style & good distribution as part of the Mutual program, insured recognition of the Keystone trade mark as well as his stars & his own name. In a very short space of time, that name became synonymous with screen comedy.

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