Remake of 1915 film classic
I “Charlie’s Big Romance,” (which screens on TVI on ’Sunday, is a remake (with 'sound effects and music added) of one of the great film classics, first - screened in 1915 under the title, ‘Tillie’s Punctured ■ Romance.” The cast is a nostalgia trip bv itself. with Charles Chaplin as the city slicker, Marie Dressier as the farmer’s daughter. Mabel Normand as Charlie’s city! girl-friend. Mack Swain as the farmer, Edgar Kennedy 1 as a cafe owner. Chester! i Conklin as a society guest, and Charlie Chase ’ as the ! I detective. The story centres around; I young Charlie, the city!
I slicker, and his problems with I his new romance. He is 'wandering in the countryside when he is accidentally conked on the head by Marie Dressier, a waspisn and buxom country girl. Thinking him hurt, she invites him into the house where, impressed by the , stranger’s city sophistica(tion, she becomes infatuated, i Discovering her to be rich, i Charlie decides to return i some of the affection, particularly with the chance of money in view. This classic is a special treat for the buffs, with Charlie as the unscrupulous opportunist, his divided loyalty between his earlier girl-friend and the new rich one, and the wild chase.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 4
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210Remake of 1915 film classic Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 4
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