His Regeneration
About His Regeneration
A rough burglar, played by Gilbert M. Anderson, gets into a fight over a woman in a dance hall. A wealthy woman he meets in the saloon offers him a way out. He takes it only partway: he and a partner still break into a rich man's house while the man's wife is asleep in the next room.
Cast & crew
More about His Regeneration
Anderson, billed as Broncho Billy, wrote and directed the Essanay short and plays the burglar. Marguerite Clayton plays the girl. Essanay released it on May 7, 1915.
Themes
Background
An Essanay one-reeler from the spring of 1915, made while Chaplin was still on the lot and Anderson was still the studio's western star.
Preservation
A surviving print is the file on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Charlie Chaplin appears, uncredited, as a customer. He is not the lead.
- Lloyd Bacon, Lee Willard, and Hazel Applegate are in the Essanay cast. Victor Potel plays a pawn-shop clerk.
- The Wikipedia cast table repeats the label 'regenerate burglar' on more than one name, so the supporting assignments are muddled there.
- A file on Wikimedia Commons means the short is not a lost film.
Scenes
- Anderson's burglar argues over a girl in the dance hall.
- He and a partner enter a house where the wife is asleep in the next room.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (His Regeneration (Charlie Chaplin, 1915).webm)
