Dough and Dynamite
About Dough and Dynamite
Waiters Pierre and Jacques are put to work in the bakery after the cooks strike and are fired. The strikers smuggle in a loaf with dynamite hidden inside. During a fight with the proprietor the loaf goes off, and the waiter climbs out of the dough.
Cast & crew
More about Dough and Dynamite
Mack Sennett produced the Keystone short and was away while it was shot, leaving Chaplin and Chester Conklin without a set plan. A bakery help-wanted sign replaced an earlier idea about boarders and a landlady. Sennett later said the dynamite-in-the-bread gag was his.
Themes
Making
Chaplin plays the inept waiter. Historian Blair Miller later treated the short as a predecessor of Oliver Hardy's Dough Nuts.
Reviews
The New York Dramatic Mirror wrote that Chaplin had, in a short time, earned a reputation as a slapstick comedian second to none. Moving Picture World called the two reels pure nonsense, some of it very laughable, and said the explosion was well pictured.
Look
Frank D. Williams photographed the bakery fights and the explosion.
Notes
- Mutual Film distributed it.
- Frank D. Williams photographed it, and Sydney Chaplin is credited as editor.
- Chester Conklin plays Jacques. Fritz Schade plays the bakery owner, Monsieur La Vie, and Norma Nichols plays his wife.
- Edgar Kennedy, Slim Summerville, and Charley Chase, billed as Charles Parrott, are among the customers and strikers.
- Moving Picture World of the time called it two reels.
Scenes
- Striking bakers hide dynamite in a loaf.
- The explosion leaves the waiter climbing out of sticky dough.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1914_10_26_DoughandDynamite)
