Sunnyside (film)

  • Charles Chaplin: Farm Worker
  • Tom Wilson: Boss
  • Tom Wood: fat young man
  • Loyal Underwood: Father Fat Man / village doctor
  • Edna Purviance: Village Beauty
  • Henry Bergman: her father
  • Tom Terris: young man from the city

On the Sunny Side ( Original title: Sunnyside ) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin from 1919.

Action

In the village of Sunnyside Charlie is hired as farm laborers, but also works as a " gofer " in the run-down country hotel " Evergreen " and the seller in the associated business. By force his boss has him in the morning throw out of bed. In order to save you time at the breakfast making, leaving a chicken lay the egg for an omelette directly into the pan and milking the milk from the cow directly into the cups. Before he can finish the breakfast, he is hunted by his boss out of the house.

The villagers go to Sunday Mass, while Charlie has to drive the cows to pasture. By inattention he loses the flock. In the village he meets on the animals, but is carried away by a bull and falls from the back of a bridge. He dreams of four dancing nymphs, the tickle him awake with a flower. Dancing he enjoys himself until he pulled out of the ditch and is kicked by his boss back to reality with them.

After a rendezvous with the village beauty Charlie comes back late to the hotel. A young man from the city has brought his car in an accident in the village and in the hotel. There, the man learns to know the village beauty, goes to her house and Charlie was with her no chance. - His boss Charlie wakes rudely out of this nightmare, he was asleep on a chair.

Happy he falls his mistress after the departure of the rich man in his arms.

Background

Sunnyside was Chaplin's third 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 15 June 1919.

Reviews

The film had only modest success with the public, as Chaplin here deviated from his usual role and the inventions of the film character of the relief of excessive work and not - as usual - the passing- served to others.

Pictures of Sunnyside (film)

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