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Company: First National Pictures
Year: 1922
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 28 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black & White
Sound Mix: Silent

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Pay Day

Pay Day

Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Writing credits: Charles Chaplin
Produced by: Charles Chaplin
Original Music: Charles Chaplin
Film Editing by: Charles Chaplin
Cinematography: Roland Totheroh 
Production Design: Charles D. Hall
Unit Publicist: Elsie Codd
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Charles Reisner
Seamstress: Mother Vinot
more: photo gallery

Cast overview:
Charles Chaplin .... Laborer
Phyllis Allen .... His Wife
Mack Swain .... Foreman
Edna Purviance .... Foreman's Daughter
Syd Chaplin .... Charlie's Friend and Lunch Cart Owner
Albert Austin .... Workman
John Rand .... Workman
Loyal Underwood .... Workman
Henry Bergman .... Drinking Companion
Al Ernest Garcia .... Drinking Companion and Policeman
Edith Blythe .... Uncredited
Virginia Bodle .... Uncredited
Ethel Childers .... Uncredited
Joe Griffin .... Uncredited
Helen Kapp .... Uncredited
Pete Griffin .... Uncredited
Sylvia Menier .... Uncredited
La Belle Raymond .... Uncredited
Harry Tenbrook .... Uncredited

Trivia:
Reportedly Charles Chaplin's favorite among his own short films.
This is Charles Chaplin's final short film.

Synopsis:
A worker (Charlie Chaplin) is excited for his pay day. But first he has to go through one more day of work, with the angry foreman. And as angry as the foreman is, he's no where near as angry as the worker's wife. She takes all of the her husband's money from work, and he has to sneak some to go out for the night. So the worker goes out on the town for a night and goes through several gags that end with his wife figuring out he took some of his money back.

Charlie plays a goofy character here. He's amusing, and over the top and silly. All this short is, is Charlie going through several different scenes and making mistakes. It's hard to review this, as it really didn't have much content, but it was thoroughly amusing. One thing that was strange about it was how mean this guy's wife is. She's obviously the antagonist and the set-up for the entire second half of the film, but geez, she takes all of her husbands money each week, and she doesn't let him keep anything to eat with. He really should've divorced that woman.

Some scenes that are particularly well done are a trolley scene, and the bricklaying scene. The bricklaying scene at the beginning is a very well directed cause and effect scene where the work elevator goes up and down, causing people's food to be eaten on a different floor, and lots of mischief. The trolley scene features Charlie trying to get a ride, but the overcrowded car is hard to get in to. It's a very well done scene and it's a really great scene for slapstick comedy, and seems to be inspiration for future film scenes.






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