Laughing Gas (1914 film)

• Charles Chaplin: The Great Wizard of the dentist
• Fritz Schade: Dr. Pain, the dentist
• Alice Howell: the wife of the dentist
• Joseph Sutherland: The little assistant to the dentist
• Slim Summerville: Patient
• Josef Swickard: Patient
• Mack Swain: Patient
• Gene Marsh: patient

Laughing gas is a slapstick silent film by Charles Chaplin from 1914. The film was produced by the Keystone Film Company under the direction of Mack Sennett. On 9 July 1914, the film celebrates its cinema premiere in distribution of Mutual film.

Action

Charlie works as an assistant to the dentist Dr. Pain when he a patient skin in his work on the swollen cheek, begins one problem after another for him. First, Dr. Pain is with him too much nitrous oxide, for this reason, should take care of the patient as long as his assistant, while the doctor is looking for a remedy for the gas. When the patient comes back, laughing to himself, he is sent by Charlie with a mallet anesthetic into the land of dreams. When the doctor comes back, he should prepare an amalgam filling and is transported with a kick to the waiting room. There, Charlie proposes to each patient on the cheek and flirts with a female patient.

In the pharmacy Sunset Pharmacy he angered the pharmacist and the wife of his boss. This is exposed by him in public. To defend itself throws Charlie with bricks after his opponent and hits its teeth and another passer-by. Meanwhile, Charlie's boss is informed of the accident his wife and rushes as fast as he can to her.

Charlie accepts the position as long as his boss is dedicated to pretty patient, in this case he tries to get closer to her. Meanwhile, a spin the victims of his brick throwing. When Charlie gets the next patient to himself, he pulls this without anesthesia, the false tooth. While he does this, the pharmacist comes to him into the treatment room and is involved in an intense fight, who is also the dentist and his wife can not escape.

Background information

The film was released in America under at least three other titles like Laffing gas, The Dentist and Tuning His Ivories. The original title for the film is Laughing gas and therefore the most common variant title.