The Idle Class
- Charles Chaplin: Tramp / husband
- Edna Purviance: Wife
- Mack Swain: her father
- Lillian McMurray: chambermaid
- Lita Grey: chambermaid
- Henry Bergman: policeman
- Allan Garcia: man on the bench / masked guest
- John Rand: Golfer / masked guest
- Rex Storey: Pickpocket / masked guest
- Loyal Underwood
The fine folks (OT: The Idle Class) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin 1921 Chaplin plays a double role in the film. .
Action
The rich people travel for summer pleasure of playing golf - the tramp as well, but in the luggage compartment under the train compartment. The husband of a rich woman, a drunkard forgets to pick up his wife from the train station. At the golf course tramp plays with golf balls of other players, which causes anger. He discovered the lonely wife of the drunkard and dreams of a life with her.
In the evening, a costume ball is held. The Tramp gets accidentally walked there after he was held in a park mistaken for a pickpocket and had to flee from a police officer. His tramp clothing goes through as a costume. He learns at the festival, the lone woman of the drinker know, he - without knowing it - the spitting image. The husband is trapped in his knight costume with wound down, is stuck visor. When he sees his wife on the shoulder of the tramp, he throws himself wildly at him, but is itself not recognized and managed by staff aside. The Tramp denies against the father of the woman to be married to her and so pulls his displeasure to himself.
It comes to a renewed fight with the true husband. The Tramp helps to open the jammed sight of the armor. The situation clears up, and he is expelled immediately of the house. A late apology from the father and master of the house, he assumes, but not to kick and run away without him in the butt.
Background
The Idle Class was Chaplin's sixth 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 25 September 1921.