Pay Day (1922 film)

Infobox Film
name = Pay Day


caption = Theatrical poster to "Pay Day" (1922)
imdb_id = 0013486
director = Charles Chaplin
writer = Charles Chaplin
starring = Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Mack Swain
Syd Chaplin
released = April 2, 1922
runtime = 28 min.
language = Silent film
English intertitles
country = USA

"Pay Day" (1922) is an American short film made by First National Pictures. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in the film.

Primary cast

*Charlie Chaplin as Laborer
*Phyllis Allen as His Wife
*Mack Swain as Foreman
*Edna Purviance as Foreman's Daughter
*Syd Chaplin as Charlie's Friend and Lunch Cart Owner

Funny Parts:Lunchtime: Two men on Ground Level, Charlie on second, his boss and his bosses daughter on the third.
* Charlie walks by on second level and trips on nail. Worker #1 Walks on the elevator and it goes to second level just in time so that Charlie falls on barrel in elevator. Charlie discovers a burning stick on the barrel when he sits on it. He passes it up to the boss and the boss grabs it by the burning end and drops it down on Man #1 on the first floor. Worker #2 steps on the elevator and it goes down. Charlie stands up just in time and picks up a hammer. He hammers in the nail and goes back to where the barrel was and sits down. The elevator comes back up just in time. He stands back up and sits on the ground. Man #2 places his lunch on the elevator just as it comes back down. As soon as he lets go the elevator goes next to the hungry, lunch-less Charlie. Charlie takes the contents out which are a BIG loaf of bread and a sausage. He drills a hole in the bread and stuffs the sausage in. The loaf is too big so he takes a corkscrew and pulls out the sausage. He puts the bread down on the elevator and pulls the sausage off the corkscrew. The elevator goes down with the bread and Man #2 takes it. The elevator goes back up and Charlie cant find the bread so he eats the sausage plain. Man #2 is looking for his sausage when the elevator starts descending and his head is underneath it. Man #2 pulls his head out just in time.

External links

*imdb title|id=0013486|title=Pay Day