The Floorwalker

• Charles Chaplin: The Tramp
• Eric Campbell: CEO
• Edna Purviance: His secretary
• Lloyd Bacon: Floorwalker
• Albert Austin: Seller
• Charlotte Mineau: Load detective

The Floorwalker (Original Title: The Floor Walker) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin from 1916.

Action

The film takes place in a department store. The director plans together with his Floorwalker to steal the revenue of the department store. Meanwhile examined the tramp under the sharp eyes of a seller the goods of the department store. The seller does not see the Tramp as a potential customer, but as a potential shoplifter. The Tramp tries the individual goods. He shaved, perfumed, but puts everything back in its place. The seller pursues the Tramp suspiciously at every turn and escapes him, therefore, that the tramp is not a shoplifter, but all other customers of the store. Nevertheless, the suspicion the Tramp, the front of the store detective ends up on the run in the office of the Managing Director, who has just been beaten down by his accomplice remains. When the Tramp opens the door, he faces the shop supervisor, who is the spitting image of him as. The Tramp considers him his reflection. Perform the same movements and late discovered the tramp that he is holding a walking stick in his hand and the Floorwalker a large bag. The shop supervisor wants to use the similarity of the tramp for his coup. The two exchanging dresses and identity, the one to unrecognized escape with the money can, the other to begin a new life with a good job. Since the seller still holds the Tramp for the shoplifter, the store supervisor will however arrested, while his suitcase full of money left in the business. Instead, the manager comes back to himself, which is how the new " Floorwalker " keen to acquire the money without the detectives being aware of it. The film ends in a confusing chase across the department store.

Background

The shop supervisor is the first film Charlie Chaplin for Mutual film after his move from Essanay and was premiered on 15 May 1916. The entire story is set in a department store, an escalator located at the center (commonly used in American department stores since 1901 in Germany only since 1925). The film was set to this prop around and the biggest riots the chases take place on the escalator.

From the cast of his Essanay films took Chaplin Edna Purviance and Leo White, Lloyd Bacon and John Rand. Charlotte Mineau, who had been involved in only two Essanays, was integrated from the film throughout the team. The most important additions to Chaplin's ensemble cast were Eric Campbell (Rogue / opponent in eleven of the twelve Mutuals ), Albert Austin, and Henry Bergman. The later director Lloyd Bacon had in the Floorwalker his biggest role in a Chaplin film.