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Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
Edna Purviance
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Billy Armstrong
- Cook
- (uncredited)
- …
Albert Austin
- A Man
- (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
- Tramp
- (uncredited)
James T. Kelley
- Singing Drunk
- (uncredited)
'Snub' Pollard
- Flop House Tramp
- (uncredited)
Wesley Ruggles
- Crook
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
- Leo White(uncredited)
- Writers
- Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
- Leo White(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe film is composed of fragments filmed, but not used, in two of Charles Chaplin's movies, namely Work (1915) and Police (1916), and footage from a third never released film, "Life".
- GoofsThe butler, cook, and thief are obviously played by different actors in the non-Chaplin scenes.
- Alternate versionsIn the 1990s, Chaplin's comedy Police (1916) was restored to its full length, reintegrating footage that had been cut out of the original film by Essanay and later used in Triple Trouble. The restored Police was unveiled as part of the documentary _Chaplin Puzzle, The (1992) (TV)_.
- ConnectionsFeatures Work (1915)
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Feeble, But By No Means Chaplin's Fault
Although it's a confusing, generally unfunny mess, the feeble quality of "Triple Trouble" is by no means Charlie Chaplin's fault. As others have also pointed out, this "comedy" was patched together at the Essanay Studio from some old, unused Chaplin footage, with some other material thrown in. The piecemeal approach definitely shows - little in the movie makes sense, and there are only a few humorous moments.
The story tries to tie together Chaplin's characters from a couple of other movies, one apparently unreleased, with some other characters whose purpose is never clearly established. Only the presence of Chaplin makes any of it watchable, and the only real interest is to see some old footage of Chaplin that otherwise would not have been released. Just as today's studios continually re-use the same stale plot ideas, apparently in the hope that the public will swallow anything with a familiar name in the cast, so also this seems to have been just an attempt to get one more movie out of Chaplin's name, after he himself had gone on to bigger things.
The story tries to tie together Chaplin's characters from a couple of other movies, one apparently unreleased, with some other characters whose purpose is never clearly established. Only the presence of Chaplin makes any of it watchable, and the only real interest is to see some old footage of Chaplin that otherwise would not have been released. Just as today's studios continually re-use the same stale plot ideas, apparently in the hope that the public will swallow anything with a familiar name in the cast, so also this seems to have been just an attempt to get one more movie out of Chaplin's name, after he himself had gone on to bigger things.
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- Snow Leopard
- Jul 25, 2004
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- Charlie's Triple Trouble
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- Runtime23 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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