- Year :
- 1914
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- Production :
- Keystone
- Description :
- 'Rounder,' is an archaic term meaning a drunk (believed to derive from 'rounds' of drinks), although the somewhat obsolete meaning of a dissolute person might as easily describe the two main characters of this superb comedy. Mr. Full (Chaplin) and Mr. Fuller (Roscoe Arbuckle) are a couple of disgraceful drunks making their rounds at home and to a café pursued by their angry spouses. They eventually flee to a park and to a rowboat, sinking to the bottom on Echo Park Lake. This comedy is the only teaming of Chaplin and Arbuckle; their other six appearances—A Film Johnnie, Tango Tangles, His Favorite Pastime, The Knockout, The Masquerader, and His New Profession—did not afford much comic interplay. Arbuckle later paid tribute to Chaplin with the comment 'I have always regretted not having been his partner in a longer film than these one-reelers we made so rapidly. He is a complete comic genius, undoubtedly the only one of our time and he will be the only one who will be still talked about a century from now.' The best of Chaplin’s drunk roles for Keystone, The Rounders anticipates his comic teaming with Ben Turpin in A Night Out (1915) and Harry Myers in City Lights (1931). Finished and shipped: August 21, 1914 Released: September 7, 1914 Scenario: Charles Chaplin Producer: Mack Sennett Director: Charles Chaplin/Roscoe Arbuckle Length: One reel
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