Caught in the Rain
About Caught in the Rain
Mack Swain and Alice Davenport, a married couple, get separated in a park. Charlie Chaplin’s tramp sits with the wife. When the husband comes back he beats the tramp. Chaplin takes a room in their hotel. The wife sleepwalks into that room, and the husband comes after her. Chaplin directed and plays the lead. It is the first short in which he did both.
Cast & crew
More about Caught in the Rain
Mack Sennett produced. Frank D. Williams photographed it. Mutual distributed it. Wikipedia times it at 16 minutes. The release date carried with this record is 4 May 1914. Alice Howell and Helen Carruthers are billed. A Commons file uses the title Caught in the Rain (1914).
Themes
Making
Sennett let Chaplin direct a park flirt and a hotel mix-up and stay in front of the camera for the whole reel.
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the park bench and the hotel corridor.
Preservation
The short survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The park beating is only the start. The hotel room is the rest.
- Davenport is the wife. Swain is the husband.
- Chaplin had acted for Keystone before this. He had not directed himself in the lead.
- The film is silent.
Scenes
- The tramp sits with Davenport until Swain returns and hits him.
- She sleepwalks into his hotel room.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Caught in the Rain (1914).webm)
