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In His New Profession, a one-reel comedy, Charlie is a scamp who hangs around at a seaside park reading The Police Gazette, an illustrated weekly full of sin and scandal that was the National Enquirer of its day.
Charlie cares for an invalid while wooing a young woman.
- Comedy
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin
His New Profession: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Peggy Page, Jess Dandy. A nephew takes his wheelchair-bound uncle and sweetheart to the park, where he meets the Little Tramp. The Tramp knows a money-making opportunity when he sees one.
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- Short, Comedy
- Charles Chaplin
- 1914-08-31
His New Profession (1914) Review (GR) In this movie, Charlie was lounging in the park. And there were three people sitting not far from him. A guy with a girl and a man in a wheelchair. The...
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Here's an index to these reviews. The Masquerader , Chaplin's most ambitious film thus far, allowed him to tell a few stories in one through meta manipulation. He played his regular character and his regular character masquerading in drag, but he also got to play a fictional version of himself becoming his regular character to mix it all up.
His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair. It is also known as "The Good for Nothing". [1]
Tim Brayton’s review published on Letterboxd: A slightly radical experiment in shot scale: most noticeably (but there are other examples), the opening shot is in medium close-up, which is still startling and nervy by the standards of 2022, let alone the standards of 1914, and in such a stylistically conservative genre as slapstick comedy, at ...
