A Day's Pleasure
- Charles Chaplin: Father
- Edna Purviance: Mother
- Jackie Coogan: youngest child
- Tom Wilson: great man
- Babe London: his sea-sick wife
- Henry Bergman: Captain / drivers / policeman
- Loyal Underwood: little man on the street
Hilarious hours ( original title: A Day's Pleasure) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin from the year 1919.
Action
A family of four with two little boys and a day. The first problems occur already during cranking of the car on, but they reach their boating time. The ship is equipped with a dance band. With the strong rocking motion of the ship, however, the couples get mixed up on the dance deck, the other is bad.
This tour is for most passengers because seasickness anything but pleasurable. The father is struggling unsuccessfully when setting up a lawn chair and gets a great man together who thinks that would have been made up to his sea-sick woman.
After sailing the father disregarded at a traffic intersection repeated the provisions of the traffic cops and gets into an argument with passers-by. Multiple continue his journey where it is impeded by other traffic, until he uses the resulting chaos for themselves and can go home.
Background
A Day 's Pleasure was Chaplin's fourth film for First National. He served only the performance of the contract; Chaplin had chosen with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and David Wark Griffith as United Artists for a different distribution channel since early 1919. The film was made in Chaplin's studio, which serves as the background in the first scene, and was released on December 7, 1919. Jackie Coogan, the star of Chaplin's following film The Kid, who had his film debut.
Reviews
The New York Times wrote in its criticism of the December 8, 1919 Chaplin 've used a lot of classic slapstick, but leave in his comedy too much on the seasickness, a Ford car and crash - boom - slapstick, making him hardly funny doing than others film comedians.