Cruel, Cruel Love

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Charlie est un jeune aristocrate qui tente de se suicider après que sa fiancée l'ai chassé. Cette dernière l'avait vu aux bras de sa domestique. Mais résultant d'un terrible malentendu elle renoue avec lui, cependant Charlie a déjà bu le poison. Il s'avéra en fait que ce n'était que de l'eau.