Acting
Charley Chase's precise physical comedy timing.
Practical Effects
Live duck wrangling in a crowded theater.
Production
Authentic 1920s cinema recreation with period details.
Director
Lewis R. Foster
Charley Chase
Charley Chase
Eugenia Gilbert
Mrs. Chase
Edith Fellows
Daughter
Tiny Sandford
Cinema Manager
Spec O'Donnell
Mrs. Chase's Brother
Harry Semels
Movie Patron
Anita Garvin
Symona Boniface
Actress on the Screen (uncredited)
Sammy Brooks
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
Audience Member (uncredited)
Carmencita Johnson
Girl in Audience (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Movie Patron (uncredited)
John T. Prince
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Charley Rogers
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Charley Chase was known as 'the screen's most gentlemanly comedian' — his buttoned-up persona made the escalating chaos funnier.
This captures the 1920s moviegoing ritual when 'going to the pictures' was still a novel middle-class family event, complete with live raffles and uniformed ushers.
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