Pay Day (1922 film)

• Charles Chaplin: Construction
• Phyllis Allen: his wife
• Mack Swain: Foreman
• Edna Purviance: daughter of the foreman
• Sydney Chaplin: Construction / sausage stall holders
• Albert Austin: Construction
• John Rand: Construction
• Loyal Underwood: Construction
• Henry Bergman: drinking buddy
• Allan Garcia: drinking buddy

Pay Day is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin from 1922.

Action

Workers on a construction site work only nimble, if the foreman 's looking. Charlie also works as a construction worker, but he is too late in the day. The daughter of the foreman brings her father over the food. Charlie has nothing to eat. He served at dinner the other workers that this store in the building elevator, the uncontrolled between the floors of the house travels back and forth.

It's payday. Charlie is not happy with the pay. His wife is waiting for him to relieve him of the money. Charlie goes straight into the Bachelor Club and is drunk when he is on his way home. The trams are full, it hardly comes with and eventually has to run. When he arrives at five home his dinner is eaten by stray cats and his wife is sleeping waiting with the rolling pin in her hand. To bed he will not come, because the alarm goes off. Several attempts to lie down again on a quiet place in the home, thwarted his wife, who chases him to work.

Background

Pay Day was Chaplin's seventh and penultimate 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 and was released on 2 April 1922.