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A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
Phyllis Allen
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Jess Dandy
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Wallace MacDonald
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Rube Miller
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Lee Morris
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
William Nigh
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
Al St. John
- Boarder
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film is among the 34 short films included in the "Chaplin at Keystone" DVD collection.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film Breaks: Charlie Chaplin (1999)
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An early situation comedy that's not overly funny or memorable. Charles Chaplin's The Tramp is the favorite lodger of the landlady (Minta Durfee) in the boarding house. Her husband (Edgar Kennedy) doesn't like them two spend too much good time together. But he has his own thing going on with a female lodger. Their son secretly takes compromising pictures of them while they are having their "dates". In the evening he shows the pictures to the whole house at the magic lantern show. And the usual group fight will go off. Everyone will get their fair share of hits and kicks.
'The Star Boarder' is somewhere in the middle ground with the quality in Chaplin's Keystone movies. The story is clear, but not very funny. You can even call it a dame compared to some other Keystone slapstick fights. I find this one of the least amusing early Chaplin's films.
'The Star Boarder' is somewhere in the middle ground with the quality in Chaplin's Keystone movies. The story is clear, but not very funny. You can even call it a dame compared to some other Keystone slapstick fights. I find this one of the least amusing early Chaplin's films.
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- The Fatal Lantern
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- Runtime16 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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