Her Friend the Bandit

• Charlie Chaplin: Bandit
• Mabel Normand: Miss Mabel De Rocks
• Charles Murray: Count De Beans

My friend, the Bandit is an American silent comedy of Charlie Chaplin from the year 1914. It is the only film Chaplin, considered to be lost.

Action

In this farce, Charlie Chaplin plays a bandit who overwhelmed the Count De beans on the way to a ceremony at the estate of Miss Mabel De Rocks. He pulls his clothes on, accepts the invitation itself and admitted to Mabel's house. There it comes to various mishaps and he causes havoc among the lordly present. Finally, the Keystone Cops appear and arrest the bandits.

Production

Filming for your friend, the bandit began on May 11, 1914, the working title The Italian and ended on May 18, 1914. On 4 June 1914, the film was released in the cinema.

Later it was published under the title Flirtation Mabel's.

Criticism

Moving Picture World in 1914 called the film a farce that was a little thin, but all the chaos contained, which makes a farce. "They will amuse and provide for laughs and can be used as solid, if not remarkable entertainment be considered. "

For the Bioscope film was a " woken farce. "