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A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.
Dan Albert
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- …
Phyllis Allen
- Prison Matron
- (uncredited)
- …
Billie Bennett
- Maid
- (uncredited)
- …
Joe Bordeaux
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Helen Carruthers
- Maid and Waitress
- (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
- First Pianist in Restaurant
- (uncredited)
- …
Charley Chase
- Detective in Movie Theatre
- (uncredited)
Dixie Chene
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Nick Cogley
- Police Chief
- (uncredited)
Alice Davenport
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Mack Sennett
- Charles Bennett(uncredited)
- Writers
- Hampton Del Ruth(uncredited)
- Craig Hutchinson(uncredited)
- Mack Sennett(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis film marked the last time that Charles Chaplin would be directed by someone other than himself. That is, if you don't count Chaplin's cameo appearance in Show People (1928), directed by King Vidor.
- GoofsWhen they are pulling Tillie out of the water with the rope, the rope in the close-ups is dragging directly over the edge of the wharf, but in the medium shots from another viewpoint, the rope is clearly being run through a block pulley system on a spar suspended over the water.
- Quotes
Police Chief: Have you a niece built like a battleship who calls herself Tillie?
- Alternate versionsRe-released in the 1950s with a organ score and narration. The narration, though, was being read while the title cards were seen.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Movies March On (1939)
- SoundtracksNew Orleans Bump
(used as a music insert in later public domain sound copies)
Written and performed by Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton
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Not as funny as Chaplin's later films but a good solid feature
A city con-man leaves for the country where he meets a young country girl. In order to get her father's money, he proposes to her and they run off to the city with the money. Once there he abandons her for his own love, Mabel and Tillie is locked up for vagrancy. However one all to her millionaire Uncle and she's free. The con-man is happy until he reads Tillie's Uncle has been killed in a climbing accident and that Tillie is set to inherit the lot. He goes back to her but things are never that simple in love and money.
Best known for being the first ever full length comedy feature made and also for setting Chaplin on his way to greater things, this is a well plotting amusing comedy. Based on a Broadway who the plot stands up well and uses some nice devices (like the movie within the movie) to tell the story. The comedy is less routines than little touches added to the narrative only the climax with the keystone cops feels like a well worked routine.
This may be it's weakness to some who expect more physical comedy from Chaplin, but he still does plenty of that as well. He is good here and it's one of the more morally bankrupt characters that I've seen him play. Dressler is good as Tillie but she is so ugly for a female lead that I assumed I must have mixed her up with the other actress. But once over the superficial things she is very good and matches Chaplin for times.
The main weakness of the film was a fault of the copy. On top of the soundtrack was a voice over that talked you through the action as if I was too stupid to work it out for myself!
Best known for being the first ever full length comedy feature made and also for setting Chaplin on his way to greater things, this is a well plotting amusing comedy. Based on a Broadway who the plot stands up well and uses some nice devices (like the movie within the movie) to tell the story. The comedy is less routines than little touches added to the narrative only the climax with the keystone cops feels like a well worked routine.
This may be it's weakness to some who expect more physical comedy from Chaplin, but he still does plenty of that as well. He is good here and it's one of the more morally bankrupt characters that I've seen him play. Dressler is good as Tillie but she is so ugly for a female lead that I assumed I must have mixed her up with the other actress. But once over the superficial things she is very good and matches Chaplin for times.
The main weakness of the film was a fault of the copy. On top of the soundtrack was a voice over that talked you through the action as if I was too stupid to work it out for myself!
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- bob the moo
- Dec 30, 2002
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- Marie's Millions
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- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) officially released in Canada in English?
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