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Programme Notes
THE COUNT
4 September 1916. Lone Star-Mutual
Producer/Director/Screenplay: Charles Chaplin; Photography: William C Foster, Roland Totheroh; With Charles Chaplin (The Apprentice), Edna Purviance (Edna Moneybags), Eric Campbell (Buttonsky), Leo White (Count Broko), Charlotte Mineau (Mrs Moneybags), James T Kelly (The Butler), Albert Austin (A Guest), May White (Ima Pipp), Eva Thatcher (Flirdela Doughbells), Leota Bryan (Girl), Frank J Coleman (Cop), John Rand (Guest), Stanley Sanford (Guest), Loyal Underwood (Small Man).
Charlie, a tailor’s apprentice clumsy with the lady customers gets the sack. Visiting his girl, a cook at a rich household, he unmasks his late employer who is taking advantage of a stolen ticket to pose as a foreign count. Charlie promptly poses as the Count, making his ex-boss play his secretary, and becomes the star of the party.