Her Friend the Bandit
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About Her Friend the Bandit
Miss De Rock, played by Mabel Normand, flirts with an elegant bandit played by Charlie Chaplin. Her mother gives a party, and Chaplin arrives passing as a French count. His manners shock the guests. The Keystone Cops are sent for and haul him out.
Cast & crew
More about Her Friend the Bandit
Chaplin and Normand co-directed. Chaplin is credited with the story. Mack Sennett produced for Keystone, and Mutual Film distributed the short. Frank D. Williams was the cameraman. Trade notices were already running in June 1914. No copy is known.
Themes
In film history
It is the gap in Chaplin's Keystone year: the one 1914 short for which no print, fragment, or still has been identified.
Making
Chaplin and Normand shared the direction, which was unusual in a year when Sennett's studio was turning shorts out in a few days each.
Reviews
The Lexington Herald of June 7, 1914, called it one of the funniest comedies in a decade. The Oregonian of June 14, 1914, billed it as a rough farce that would make everybody laugh.
Preservation
Lost. No copy is known. It remains the missing Keystone Chaplin.
Notes
- It is the only Keystone Chaplin still treated as lost. A Woman of the Sea, a later Chaplin film that was never released, is also lost. He destroyed that negative himself in the 1930s.
- As late as 1965, five of his Keystone comedies were listed as lost. Four have since turned up. This one has not.
- A published cast list credits Charles Murray as Count de Beans. Glen Cavender and William Hauber are also in the company.
- The Lexington Herald of June 7, 1914, and The Oregonian of June 14, 1914, both carried short notices.
Scenes
- Chaplin's count behaves so badly at Mrs. De Rock's party that the Keystone Cops drag him off.
