The Rounders Movie

The Rounders
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Released: 1914
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Genre/Type: Comedy
Buddy Film
Producers: Mack Sennett
Plot Synopsis by Phil Posner
In his 26th Keystone comedy Charlie Chaplin pairs off with fellow Keystone star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Chaplin and Arbuckle are both drunks and are both married to domineering wives. Chaplin, dressed in top hat and evening clothes, arrives drunk to his hotel and is confronted by wife Phyllis Allen who berates and manhandles him. Arbuckle arrives a few moments later and, in an adjacent room, meets a similar fate with his wife, Minta Durfee, his real life spouse. The noise of their fight makes Allen send Chaplin over to see what's going on. Durfee begins to attack Chaplin, and Allen intervenes on his behalf. With the ladies locked in battle, the men, realizing that they are lodge brothers, steal money from their wives' purses and escape to a nearby cafe. At the cafe they cause a commotion, both eventually bunking down to sleep on the cafe floor. By now the wives have discovered that they've been robbed and have banded together to look for Chaplin and Arbuckle. They arrive at the cafe but the boys escape and stagger to a park. Just before the wives and the outraged cafe patrons can catch them, they take a rowboat from a couple at the park and row out to the middle of the lake, where they lay down to sleep. Unfortunately, the boat has a leak and both men go down with the ship.

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Actors Character Born
Phyllis Allen Charlie's Wife Nov 25, 1861 in Staten Island, NY
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle His Neighbor Mar 24, 1887 in Smith Center, KS
Charles Chaplin Reveller Apr 16, 1889 in London, England
Charley Chase Diner Oct 20, 1893 in Baltimore, MD
Minta Durfee Fatty's Wife
Al St. John Bellhop Sep 10, 1893
Wallace MacDonald Diner
Fritz Schade Diner

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