Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love

NR 1914 · 9 min · ★ 5.2 · Comedy

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Directed by Mack Sennett · Written by Craig Hutchinson

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