The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writers: Charles Chaplin, Vincent Bryan
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006…
The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writers: Charles Chaplin, Vincent Bryan
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006689/
Public domain.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Floorwalker
The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment.[1]
The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series of slapstick that climaxes with a frantic chase down an upward escalator and finding they are remaining in the same position on the steps no matter how fast they move. Edna Purviance plays a minor role as a secretary to store manager.
Cast
Charles Chaplin as Tramp
Eric Campbell as Store manager
Edna Purviance as Manager's secretary
Lloyd Bacon as Assistant manager
Albert Austin as Shop assistant
Charlotte Mineau as Beautiful store detective
Leo White as A Customer
Henry Bergman as Old Man (uncredited)
Frank J. Coleman as Janitor (uncredited)
Bud Jamison (Small Role, uncredited)
James T. Kelley as Lift Boy (uncredited)
Tom Nelson as Detective (uncredited)
John Rand as Policeman (uncredited)
Wesley Ruggles as Policeman (uncredited)
Tiny Sandford (Small Role, uncredited)
Synopsis
Charlie enters a department store and annoys the staff with his antics. Meanwhile, the store's manager and the floorwalker are conspiring to rob the store's safe. When they finish putting the safe's contents into a bag, the floorwalker knocks out the manager and flees with the money. Just as the floorwalker is about to exit, he encounters Charlie who looks..
